Gay Rights Abroad

Hey, instead of a face, you could ya know, educate me.

I'm serious. I'm not gay and not really worried about what other people of that orientation worry about or do.

Sally Ride was the astronaut. Sally Field was the *** mom in Mrs. Doubtfire.

Very basic rights/protections for transgender individuals are left unchecked.

Workplace protections.

Sex education.

Bullying.

Homelessness, especially in youth.

Housing and public accommodations.

Adoption issues.

Those are only off the top of my head. There are a lot of things that need to be addressed and having the entire activist movement boiled down to marriage equality because that's all your average white cis homosexual cares about is beyond infuriating.

You take that back!

Edit: Huh. Posted that right after a post about derailment. Neat. It was all unintentional and meant to be harmless, though, too.

Why am I not surprised that basically the only thing being discussed here is marriage rights?

I guess that really is what LGBTQ activism has been reduced to. Gag.

Perfectly fine here, we even have openly gay priests.

It's funny to me how a lot of parts in America that are very religious follow the "word of god" and yet this statement alone would make so many of those same people to want to burn those churches.

Mhh the gay pride stuff here is becoming more and more like a second carnival season x3 It's fun tho
The biggest here is the Christopher Street Day i think, big parties in many cities every year .-.

It's funny to me how a lot of parts in America that are very religious follow the "word of god" and yet this statement alone would make so many of those same people to want to burn those churches.

"There have always been priests with a homosexual orientation. This has been the church's long history. Thus, it is nothing new when women and men with this orientation will be priests in our church today. Such an orientation is not in itself disqualifying for ordination or service in the church.

Admission to the ordination of priests and the service is a detailed process where admissions conferences, and diocesan bishop is required to adopt the decision of each individual candidate. It is always a combination of what has been established that determine stance, rarely any single issue. These include questions of vocation, faith, spiritual life, intellectual capacity, personality and leadership, teamwork and personal growth, and rooted in the Swedish Church. None of us bishops deny someone ordination because of homosexual orientation. However, both persons of heterosexual and homosexual orientation are denied ordination in the cathedral and the bishop of the total assessment can not find them suitable.

The individual's personal circumstances related to aspects involved in the admission process. It is natural that this happens. What about family? Girlfriend or boyfriend? Cohabitation or marriage? Both share the same faith? For those with a homosexual orientation may be grounds to speak about the difficulties of the general marginalization of them can bring. The bishop will contribute to a placement in a parish where the priest will have good conditions to work. Even later, during the priest of service time, it is natural that the priest raises questions about relationships and personal lifestyle with the bishop.

Some people have a calling to be celibate. There are people with different sexual orientations who answered yes to such a life, but it's hardly something that can be forced on anyone. However, we wait for all the priests that they, when they share their lives with someone else, that they do it in faith and love. Promiscuous relationships are not acceptable. "

You also do need to understand, the LGBT community has a history and a culture. Stonewall in New York, White Riots in San Francisco and Black Cat Tavern of Los Angeles, Matthew Shepard...these are historical moments for the LGBT community. (the culture part is a bit more difficult to explain in a few sentences)I know the younger gay's don't necessarily understand this, as the history message/gets lost with time. So when you go to pride and see some cross dressers or trans. Some thats them as a person, for others its out of respect for the drag queens who stood up to the NYPD.

Stonewall was the first major gay riot in US history. Where a bunch of drag queens decided to retaliate and fight back against the NYPD.

That's insightful and interesting information... but I can't get the image out my head now of an army of drag queens fighting the NYPD lol >_>;

this huge lady with the colorful, big hair is actually pretty nice and not going to eat your children >.>

Idk where to stand on the gay pride thing tbh, I mean it's kinda acting like being gay is special and rubbing it in the face of society which is not something you can do if you expect to be treated fairly and equally. However because of the lingering social stigma still associated with being gay I fully understand why these events take place. Also there are countless other groups and societies that do the same thing so idk!

Also on a lighter note the gay pride is a great chance to hook up lol, you don't have to worry about your "gay radar", everyone in range is so gay they taste like rainbows.

About gay pride:
Sure, there are some people that go there not really for the manifestation, but rather to flaunt their love for bondage or other sexual kinks...like something seen earlier. You also see a lot of drag queens and the fact that they're not really accepted socially people make statements like "it looks like a carnival", it's not, that's just people expressing how they really want to be and the parade itself is to demonstrate they don't want to be afraid to do so. The meaning of the parade is not to say "we're gay and we're better", gay people don't think they're better because of their sexuality, but you have to realize how much we go through just because of that part of our life and that protesting is important to gain acceptance. We don't want to be called freaks or depravated, we don't want to be beaten because we're different from others, we want equal treatments in all aspects of society. And to this day we don't have them.
And then there's the guy that shows up in a full leather cop costume with holes in the butt...but horny people are everywhere, not only in the lgbt community.
Also on a lighter note the gay pride is a great chance to hook up lol, you don't have to worry about your "gay radar", everyone in range is so gay they taste like rainbows.

It's not us who sees us different. But you have no idea how we're treated by most people. Protesting is necessary, if you never speak against suppression you'll never be free.