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Contents:
- WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
- PHOTOS OF GAY MORMON MISSNARI STIR NTROVERSY
- 6 OF THE BT SEX POSNS FOR GAY MEN WHO LIKE TO TOP
- ON BEG A GAY MORMON MISSNARY
- THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
- GAY THE LATO COMMUNY: A FILM REVIEW OF “LA MISSN”
- COMPANNS: LSONS OM GAY MORMON MISSNARI
- HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
- PLAN 9 OM MISSN HILL (OR I MARRIED A GAY MAN OM OUTER SPACE)
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
WHY AREN'T THERE ANY OPENLY GAY ASTRONTS?
The announcement of Sally Ri's ath ma her the first openly gay astront, albe posthumoly. Why are there no others? * mission man gay *
Only one is publicly known to have been gay or bisexual — Sally Ri — and she kept private until her ath, yterday (July 23), when her obuary on the Sally Ri Science anizatn's webse stated that Ri was survived by Tam O'Shghnsy, her "partner of 27 years. "I hope mak easier for kids growg up gay that they know that another one of their hero was like them, " Bear Ri, who intifi as gay, told Buzzfeed Rights Campaign print Chad Griff ncurred, tellg Buzzfeed, "The fact that Sally Ri was a lbian will further help round out Amerins' unrstandg of the ntributns of LGBT Amerins to our untry. But the lack of even one openly gay or lbian astront the history of Amerin spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astront office.
PHOTOS OF GAY MORMON MISSNARI STIR NTROVERSY
The startlg shift Amerin attus toward gays and same-sex marriage is not the rult of chance or random events. More than a quarter century ago, gay strategists laid out a plan to transform the natn—wh astoundg succs. * mission man gay *
Still, the fact remas that no astronts have ever e out as gay or lbian, while many astronts clu mentn of their hbands, wiv or children on their NASA official bgraphy pag. )Cassutt said even though he spects there are or have been some other gay or lbian astronts, and spe of the progrs ma on LGBT issu, "I don't expect anyone the current rps to be 'out' any time soon, assumg anyone is gay. ' While there are a great many more people who are openly gay today, we are not yet to a pot of universal acceptance, " he is also the fact that 219 of the 330 current and former astronts served the ary, acrdg to NASA.
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6 OF THE BT SEX POSNS FOR GAY MEN WHO LIKE TO TOP
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The photographs, part of an stunt-sponsored exhibn tied to Diversy Week by gay, lbian and transgenred artists at the school's South Cy mp, pict two young men whe shirts and dark pants, one of them wearg a missnary name tag. Farmer, who is gay, told The Salt Lake Tribune that he was raised a member of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and had difficulty while growg up rencilg the two worlds.
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ON BEG A GAY MORMON MISSNARY
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When I was fourteen, after lookg up the word “homosexual” the dictnary, I fally had a word to scribe what I felt. Stuart Matis, the gay grandson of Henry Matis, whom my grandfather helped nvert to the LDS Church, nfid his parents and Church lears, and his life end tragilly, suici. One Sunday I was attendg my parents’ ward, when a brother stood up and ma some extremely homophobic ments.
THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
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It reassured me, and told me that this brother didn’t know what he was talkg about when he spoke about gay people. It seemed to me that the majory of Mormons had ser misnceptns about homosexualy, and had very negative and false stereotyp about what meant to be gay.
Maybe the growth of the Church would be very bad for gay people – much the way that the growth of Evangelil Christiany Uganda has been disastro for gays that part of the world. And if I knew of God’s great love for me and if I knew of all the ways which he had blsed me and my hband, then surely I mt know that his plan for the Church, there would always, always be a place for me and my hband, and that the spread of his Church, far om beg bad for gays, would make a world that is far, far better for gays and for all God’s children, whatever their sexual orientatn, race, genr or other aspects of who we are.
GAY THE LATO COMMUNY: A FILM REVIEW OF “LA MISSN”
A person n be homophobic, but if they learn how to love, once the sl of homophobia are removed om their ey, they will love far better than someone who was not homophobic, but never learned the value of sacrifice. This is why we need the Church to grow, and why we need to be a part of the Church, and why we need to learn to live the Gospel see, this same brother who tght me this betiful lson about why I need to not worry about my stat the Church, and worry more about the kd of person I am beg also tght me this lson about homophobia. And this same brother who had gotten up one day Sunday School a few years ago and gone on a homophobic rant that almost ed me to get up and walk out of the Church, that same brother stood up Prithood meetg and to my and my father’s astonishment nfsed that many the Church have misunrstood and have needlsly rejected our lbian and gay brothers and sisters (he ed the words “lbian and gay”!
I thk this is generally a good thg, though seems to add certa challeng relatn to Church activy and service, pecially relatn to servg a full-time a gay or lbian youth were to ask my advice about whether to serve a missn for the Church or not, here is what I would say. But what I do know is that the membership of the Church do not have to be purified of every last vtige of homophobia orr to provi a marvelo ntext for growth and for the Lord to bls through his rtored prithood.
In the November 1987 edn of Gui, a magaze for homosexuals, the two men thored an article tled “The Overhlg of Straight Ameri. ” There Kirk, a rearcher nropsychiatry, and Madsen, a public relatns nsultant, laid out a blueprt to fundamentally change Amerins’ attus toward homosexuals and homosexualy. In 1989 they expand that blueprt to a 398-page book tled After the Ball: How Ameri Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays the 90s.
COMPANNS: LSONS OM GAY MORMON MISSNARI
Their goal was to make homosexualy acceptable and to fe negative opns of any who disagree. The article began by statg: “The first orr of bs is sensizatn of the Amerin public ncerng gays and gay rights.
One person scribed “The Overhlg of Straight Ameri” as the “bible” of the homosexual agenda. We do not need and nnot expect a full ‘appreciatn’ or ‘unrstandg’ of homosexualy om the average Amerin.
HIROSHIMA’S ENOLA GAY RRIED 12 MEN, HOPE AND THE WORLD’S ADLIT WEAPON
Gallup polls 1989 showed that only 19 percent of Amerins believed people were born homosexual, wh 48 percent believg was due to environmental factors such as upbrgg. By 2015 those numbers had dramatilly shifted to 51 percent believg homosexuals were born that way and only 30 percent attributg to other factors. (This is spe of the fact that extensive geic rearch and many studi of intil tws where only one was homosexual have disproven geic termism.
PLAN 9 OM MISSN HILL (OR I MARRIED A GAY MAN OM OUTER SPACE)
Well-rearched surveys (as opposed to some wh markedly skewed sampl and/or methodology) have nsistently placed the homosexual populatn of Ameri at around 2 to 3 percent—yet the fluence of homosexuals on Amerin culture is vastly out of proportn wh their actual numbers.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
The way to benumb raw sensivi about homosexualy is to have a lot of people talk a great al about the subject a ntral or supportive way... Constant talk builds the imprsn that public opn is at least divid on the subject, and that a sizable segment accepts or even practic homosexualy.