An 72-year-old gay activist isn't hopeful about the future.
Contents:
- ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
- HOW ‘WHO R’ HAS BEE WORD ONLE FOR ‘I HATE GAY PEOPLE’
- WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?
- GAY-HATE
ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * love hate gay *
The gay inty stereotypilly wh expectatns around genr performance, polics, body standards, and sexual sir, and the feel opprsive to many people. For , “queer” allows for muny-buildg wh those who don’t subscribe to gay standards.
HOW ‘WHO R’ HAS BEE WORD ONLE FOR ‘I HATE GAY PEOPLE’
Gay love has taken many forms human history, om Socrat' mentorship of his younger lovers, to the artistic passn between Rimbd and Verlae, to morn-day gay celebry upl and their adorable children. Dpe what many hate groups would like to have you believe, gay love is jt as natural and betiful as straight, whether middle-school csh or long-term relatnships. The Advote has all the latt on gay love and sex, om historil viewpots of LGBT relatnships throughout time to verage of a Hollywood that is fally reprentg the diverse bety of LGBT relatnships. * love hate gay *
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WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?
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Romans 1:26 says homosexualy is disgraceful and dishonorg. First Corthians 6:18 says that sexual immoraly, cludg homosexualy, is a s agast one’s own body. If homosexualy rults a dishonorg, harmful separatn om God’s blsg, then the lovg thg to do is to stay away om .
That beg said, those wh homosexual attractns are sperate need of love.
Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo. The need for love is no different for sgle heterosexuals than is for those wh homosexual attractn.
GAY-HATE
If God is love, why do He nmn homosexualy? 14 Ways To Defeat Your Fears of Beg Gay. There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general.
Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant. " Y, there are some good reasons to rce your participatn gay bars (time, money, health).
But you mt spend time wh others, whether that means havg a group of gay movie iends or queer gamers or playg on a gay sports team. Go to gay bars, even if they make you unfortable. Fd gay iends.