gay

Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.

I glanced back to Yanni to see him smiling at us. "You two can stop being so cute now." "Well, Spencer can," Andrew deadpanned. "I, unfortunately, am cute all the time." I laughed. "It's true. He is.

They were the most romantic creatures in the city in that room. If their days were spent in banks and office buildings, no matter: Their true lives began when they walked through this door__nd were baptized into a deeper faith, as if brought to life by miraculous immersion. They lived only for the night.

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

It__ not easy for a young gay fabulous boy in Japan, I should know, that__ why I became a woman._ Momma Nakama

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

[A]t least since the late nineteenth century when the primary role in categorising sexual behaviour and naming what is __ormal_ and what is __erverse_ passed, in most industrial societies, from the religious to the medical and scientific professions, we have lived with the notion of distinct categories of people labelled __omosexual_ and __eterosexual_. (The category __omosexual_ was coined by the Viennese writer Karol Benkert in 1869, __eterosexual_ emerging somewhat later.) Since that time, new discourses have tried to establish the male __omosexual_ as a distinct type of person - as opposed to same-sex attraction or same-sex acts being seen as a potential in everyone. As Peter Tatchell [__t__ Just a Phase: Why Homosexuality is Doomed_, in Simpson (ed.), Anti-Gay, London: Cassell. 1996] puts it, __rior to that time _ there were only homosexual acts, not homosexual people _ [For] the medieval Catholic Church _ homosexuality was not _ the special sin of a unique class of people but a dangerous temptation to which any mortal might succumb. This doctrine implicitly conceded the attractiveness of same-sex desire, and unwittingly acknowledged its pervasive, universal potential

If I was gay, I wouldn't need an asterisk beside my name. I could stop worrying if the girl I like will bounce when she finds out I also like dick. I could have a coming-out party without people thinking I just want attention. I wouldn't have to explain that I fall in love with minds, not genders or body parts. People wouldn't say I'm 'just a slut' or 'faking it' or 'undecided' or 'confused.' I'm not confused. I don't categorize people by who I'm allowed to like and who I'm allowed to love. Love doesn't fit into boxes like that. It's blurry, slippery, quantum. It's only limited by our perceptions and before we slap a label on it and cram it into some category, everything is possible.

How fair is it to judge a person based on his sexual preferences, or their __therness_? As long as a person is not __armful_ for others or not violating the rights of others, I think we need not be bothered about their personal lives, whom they love or whom they marry. It is a personal choice. I think the most important thing about a person is his or her __umanity_, kindness, selflessness not their __ex life_ (only as long as he or she is not violating the rights of others or causing harm to others).It is entirely a disgrace on humanity to __iscriminate_ a person solely based on their __therness_. I am surprised to see how the society stands against or make fun out of __ay_ people, who are totally harmless, ignoring the __uman_ in them, but feel __K_ with __apists_, __ex maniacs_, __rostitution_ and __exual violence against women and children_ occurring in Sri Lanka every day.

Adult males in modern society who feel fulfilled in giving concern and tuition to boys and youths are portrayed as being interested only in boys' bodies (though this may be a small part of the attraction) and are spurned and traduced as sexual monsters. I believe we reap the harvest of ours hysterical and homophobia today in juvenile crime, drug use and delinquency. Consider the ethical training which boys and youths gained through shudo in Japan or in the system in Classical Greece, the tuition in manners, customs and humanity, the degree of civilised values imparted to them, the ideas of loyalty, honour and truthfulness; this highly personalised education with love and sensuality at its centre must be far more effective than any other. We in the West are bigoted fools to dismiss it with such horror.

The historical record demonstrates that, on the contrary, many homosexuals chose heterosexuality and failed to maintain it because choice is less powerful than destiny.

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't

Raven, holding Joshua's chin, asks him how old he is.Joshua, folding in the pinky and the thumb on his left hand, while leaning on Raven's legs, raises three middle fingers into the air."That's what I thought. You're three.

No matter whether you__e a gay or a mixed race couple; when you__e drawn together, ultimately it doesn__ matter what everybody thinks because it__ so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?

I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head, a velvet coat, ice-skates - I must have been remembering some picture. I imagined myself beside her, the air coming sharply into our mouths. I imagined how it would be if I took her, not to Italy, but only to Marishes, to my sister's house; if I sat with her at supper, and shared her room, and kissed her -