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WE ARE NOT CRUMBS; WE MUST NOT ACCEPT CRUMBS. Remarks on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, NY Lesbian and Gay Community Center, March 13, 9007, By Larry Kramer...
Continue reading Larry Kramer: We Must Not Accept Crumbs.
The following excerpt is from a very recent letter to Jay Leno (host of a popular American late-night talk show) from Jeff Whitty (playwright and author of the broadway musical Avenue Q): ...I've been watching your show a bit, and...
Continue reading Jeff Whitty to Jay Leno.
Don't be afraid to cross swords with the Fanatical Fundamentalists - whether of the Protestant or Catholic variety. They'll present themselves as if they speak on behalf of God while labelling you an unfit parent, spouse, soldier, teacher, parishioner, brother, human being, whatever...
Continue reading Don't Be Fooled by the Fundamentalist Cult.
Here is my variant of Sudoku. Instead of the numberals 1 through 9, use the letters found in the two words 'lesbian' and 'gay' but use 'a' only once. Therefore, in each row, column and 3x3 grid, the solved puzzle will contain each of the following 9 letters: L E S B I A N G Y...
Continue reading Sudoku (LESBIANGaY).
Within the gay community, sexual addiction runs rampant. When sex is rendered a meaningless transaction only about pleasure, it becomes another form of recreational drug use. Sexual addiction robs the addict of healthy views of sexuality and intimacy. Are you sexually compulsive?...
Continue reading How Much is Too Much?.
The Gay Lesbian Civil Rights Movement's most important success will be that of creating an environment in which gay people feel free and welcome to express their basic core humanity without regard to their sexuality. The energy that out gay people now must expend in order to make their place openly and honestly...
Continue reading Gay People Are Not From Mars.
For most out gay teens today, they will mature into a country (USA) that will, for the most part, bar them from marrying the one they love. Many may enter adulthood in states that categorize them as unfit to foster or adopt children...
Continue reading Gay Teens Confront Their Humanity.
Jonathan I. Katz posted an article through his school's website entitled "In Defense of Homophobia" (hat tip Good As You). In it he calls gay people basically diseased, immoral and repulsive. Here follows my emailed response...
Continue reading Jonathan I. Katz: In Defense of Thought Turds.
What happens when you come out as a kid? How America's gay youths are challenging the right--and the left. The appearance of so many gay adolescents has, predictably, worried social conservatives, but it has also surprised gay activists...
Continue reading John Cloud: The Battle Over Gay Teens.
They were raised on small, poor ranches in opposite corners of the state, Jack Twist in Lightning Flat up on the Montana border, Ennis del Mar from around Sage, near the Utah line, both high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered...
Continue reading Brokeback Mountain: Annie Proulx and Ang Lee.
There were loud cheers as lawmakers voted 41-35 to approve an historic gay marriage bill. The bill's supporters compared the legislation to earlier civil rights campaigns, including efforts to eradicate slavery and give women the right to vote...
Continue reading Mark Leno Leads, Gov. Schwarzenegger Cowers.
As it stands, Federal hate crime legislation sends a powerful signal to the states that the assumptions on which hate crime statutes are based are fundamentally accepted as correct...
Continue reading Hate Crime, Statistics and Apathy.
As long as society treated them as queer, many homosexuals threw the taunt back by embracing the party lifestyle, forming a rich underworld where they could feel accepted and safe. Now, at last, they can feel that way in the light of day.
Continue reading A Long, Dark Era is Over (for some).
Today, the Spanish society answers to a group of people who, during many years, have been humiliated, whose rights have been ignored, whose dignity has been offended, their identity denied, and their liberty oppressed...
Continue reading Avoiding Senseless Suffering of Decent Human Beings.
I think this has been the most difficult speech I have ever had to write and to deliver. It is a long speech. I pray you will bear with me until its end. It is an attempt to give you some idea of who and what we are up against...
Continue reading Larry Kramer: The Tragedy of Today's Gays.
"I will never understand those who proclaim love as the foundation of life, while denying so radically protection, understanding and affection to our neighbors, our friends, our relatives, our colleagues," Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told parliament in a 'state of the nation' address...
Continue reading What Kind of Love Excludes?.
Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Watch the film online at PBS Frontline...
Continue reading Paragraph 175: The Holocaust and Homosexuals.
Recent changes in marriage are part of a worldwide upheaval in family life that has transformed the way people conduct their personal lives as thoroughly and permanently as the Industrial Revolution transformed their working lives 200 years ago. Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies...
Continue reading The Evolution of Marriage.
Evan Wolfson (Freedom to Marry Coalition) and Lou Sheldon (Traditional Values Coalition) debated 'gay marriage' last night. “In 1948, 90 percent of the population was against interracial marriage, but California’s courts were the first to have the courage to strike down the ban as unconstitutional,” Wolfon said...
Continue reading Love, Commitment, Fairness, Freedom.
Trolley drivers on this city's F Line rang their bells as a minister in a purple shirt and ecclesiastical collar, a 16-year-old girl and her two lesbian mothers, and 150 other supporters of same-sex marriage celebrated a court decision that California was violating its Constitution by not allowing gays to marry...
Continue reading Judge Rules "No Rational Basis Exists" Opposing Gay Marriage.
One of the most persistent debates surrounding homosexuality regards whether gays are “born that way” or whether homosexuality is a “chosen lifestyle.” The debate is ill-formed from the start, in that it conflates two separate questions: How did you become what you are? Can you change what you are?
Continue reading Nature? Nurture? It Doesn't Matter..
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin kicked off parliamentary debate on the same-sex marriage bill Wednesday giving the following speech: I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people...
Continue reading Canadian Prime Minister Martin: "Equality for All".
What statements do I hear or read over and over when people object to gay human beings in one form or another? I discredit a few here or at least address them. I won't waste my time on the one that generally goes, "well that's just what I believe". Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts...
Continue reading Arguing 4 the Gay Agenda w/Apples & Oranges.
BILL C-38
An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes WHEREAS the Parliament of Canada is committed to upholding the Constitution of Canada, and section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that every individual is equal before and under the law...
Continue reading The Canadian Gay Marriage Bill.
LESSON ONE: Homosexuals are a minority of human beings. We naturally experience both emotional affection and physical attraction toward others of the same sex. For a sampling of nature's messiness and unwillingness to exist in 'black and white' see How Common are Intersex Conditions?. LESSON TWO: Homosexuals are...
Continue reading Homosexuality 101 (A Class for the Misguided).
...For nearly a decade, Nancy Rodriques has battled the demons that swirl around the murder of her son, Paul Broussard, her first of three children by two husbands. She asks herself whether she was accepting enough when Paul came out to her not long before his death. She regrets not being able to comfort him after...
Continue reading Paul and Scotty.
I'd like to speak to all my gay friends out there about the recent anti-gay state amendments. I think it's important to
understand what has happened. The movement to protect the 'sanctity of marriage' is really the doctrine of segregation
reborn. The very phrase 'sanctity of marriage' is no less putrid and powerfully evil than was...
Continue reading Sanctity of Marriage = Purity of Race.
Today while flipping channels I came across a black minister decrying the argument which equates today's gay civil rights movement with yesterday's black civil rights movement. He said it was immoral and offensive. Shame on that segment of the black community which falsely believe they alone are entitled to civil rights and...
Continue reading The Segregation of the Homosexual.
1 Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, heart transplants and birth control are not natural. 2 Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people cannot get legally married because the world needs more...
Continue reading Same-Sex Marriage will Ruin Society.
1. Hopefully, if there is a god, it is far removed from our human lives, for if a god exists in the way many sincere people believe - a transcendent being who watches over us and takes a first hand...
Continue reading Four Short Life Lessons.
This year, married couples were the stars at the 34th annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade. Organized by Marriage Equality California, which is trying to legalize same-sex marriage, many of the couples marched carrying enlarged copies of...
Continue reading Gay Married Couples.
Homosexuality is an uncommon yet natural variant in all societies throughout all of time. Heterosexuality's 'traditional family' has never been and will never be in danger due to the existence of homosexuality. Those who are right-handed have nothing to fear...
Continue reading Human Beings not Ideologies.
The Supreme Judicial Court today became the nation's first state supreme court to rule that same-sex couples have the legal right to marry. Gay population: The 2000 Census estimated there were about 19,000 gay couples in Mass., and about 659,000...
Continue reading Gay Citizens and Parity.
The following synopsis of the FRONTLINE documentary Assault on Gay America is taken directly from PBS.org. On February 19, 1999, in Sylacauga, Alabama, 39-year-old computer programmer Billy Jack Gaither was brutally beaten with an axe handle. His throat was...
Continue reading The Life and Death of Billy Jack Gaither.
"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." "One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness." "It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain." "The fact that we are all human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish humans from one another." ...
Continue reading Queer Quotes.