Tag Archives: lgbt
Supremacist Slurs and Reconciliation at a Gay Bar in Louisville, KY
Woody’s Tavern owner David Norton offers a public statement of apology to a group of University of Louisville students and faculty almost a year and a half after he chased the group out of his Old Louisville bar using racist … Continue reading
Quote: NAACP Chair Julian Bond on Gay Rights
“When someone asks me, “are gay rights civil rights?” my answer is always, “Of course, they are.” Civil rights are positive legal prerogatives: the right to equal treatment before the law. These are the rights shared by everyone. There is … Continue reading
Gay Teens Confront Their Humanity
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
John Cloud: The Battle Over Gay Teens
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
Larry Kramer: The Tragedy of Today's Gays
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
Nature? Nurture? It Doesn't Matter.
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
Queer Quotes
“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
Gay People Are Not From Mars
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 →