Open Question: I'm confused about my sexuality! Help?
I’m 15 years old girl and a junior in highschool. I’ve always been attracted to guys. I’m not really attracted to guys at my school because they are immature, but I’m mostly attracted to men. I’ve recently been talking to this girl who is lesbian and she has a girlfriend but we sit next to each other and we make each other laugh a lot and I’ve recently have had feelings for her. When ever I see her I get nervous and just wish she liked me. I also have crushes on guys but does this mean I’m bisexual? Both girls and boys turn me on. And please no hate comments. I’m Christian and I have no problems with lgbt community it’s just I’m confused. Help?
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NAACP Houston Branch & Urban League Intensify Campaign for Equal Rights Ordinance
NAACP Houston Branch & Urban League Intensify Campaign for Equal Rights Ordinance
This weekend, the NAAP Houston Branch and Houston Area Urban League announced that they are intensifying their work in favor of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).
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How do I tell someone I'm trans? (FtM)
How do I tell someone I'm trans? (FtM)
So I’ve been talking to this girl for awhile she’s told me she’s fallen for me and everything but she doesn’t know I’m trans..I want to tell her but I just don’t know how and I’m scared she won’t accept it how should I tell her
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Open Question: Why american Christians support LGBT ?
Open Question: Why american Christians support LGBT ?
My birthday soon. Now I have a reason and got those made
My birthday soon. Now I have a reason and got those made
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My birthday soon. Now I have a reason and got those made
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Weekend News Brief: Ricky Martin, Gay Rugby, Alcoholic Comet, Chris Christie, Baldness Cure
Weekend News Brief: Ricky Martin, Gay Rugby, Alcoholic Comet, Chris Christie, Baldness Cure
> Chris Christie got kicked out of Amtrak’s Quiet Car for yelling.
> As Synod ends, Catholic door remains firmly shut for same-sex marriage.
> Puerto Vallarta escaped relatively unscathed from Hurricane Patricia: “Mexico’s Tourism Secretary Enrique de la Madrid says major resorts like Puerto Vallarta had had “extraordinary luck” in avoiding damage from the once immensely powerful storm. He says mountains around the city ‘served as a barrier.’”
> This is what it’s like to be an LGBT Syrian fleeing for your life.
> Brooklyn gay bar Excelsior reopens.
> Ricky Martin is not opposed to the occasional shirtless selfie:
> Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer endorses Martin O’Malley for President: “I’m endorsing Martin for President today because I believe he is the candidate that best represents the future of our Party,” Schweitzer said in a statement released by the campaign. “Martin and I don’t agree on every issue, but he is the only candidate with a proven record of getting things done, and I believe he is the best candidate to take on Republicans in November 2016.”
> Progress reported on drug to regrow hair.
> Identical strangers stunned after meeting one another in Germany.
> Comet Lovejoy is releasing as much alcohol as 500 bottles of wine every second: “The discovery marks the first time ethyl alcohol – the same type that you might find in a Martini – has been seen in a comet. It adds to evidence that comets could have been a source of the complex molecules necessary for the emergence of life on Earth.”
> British transgender teen says he was refused a haircut by a barber because of ‘different’ hair: “The 16-year-old says staff turned him away and said they were not insured to cut women’s hair. But Barber Barber, the store in Liverpool, denies the incident took place and insisted their ‘no women’ policy is intended to be taken lightly. Gould’s mother Ruth said staff told her “we don’t do trans people” when they inquired about getting a cut.”
> World’s first gay rugby club turns 20.
> Experimental device projects moving images onto clouds:
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Weekend News Brief: Ricky Martin, Gay Rugby, Alcoholic Comet, Chris Christie, Baldness Cure
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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Doesn't Share Hillary Clinton's Memory of How DOMA Passed
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Doesn't Share Hillary Clinton's Memory of How DOMA Passed
Bernie Sanders isn’t buying Hillary Clinton’s version of the history around passage of the Defense of Marriage Act.
On Saturday, he used what is always considered an important speech in the Democratic primary process — the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa — to counter what Clinton said the day before about passage of the federal ban on same-sex marriage in 1996.
Clinton said during an interview with Rachel Maddow on Friday that her husband’s signing of DOMA was a “defensive action” meant to stave off a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Sanders was in the House of Representatives at the time and voted against DOMA, which passed on a vote of 342-67.
“In 1996, I faced another fork in the road. A very, very difficult political situation,” he said. “It was called the Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, brought forth by a Republican-led Congress, and its purpose was clear, to discriminate against gays and lesbians in the law.
“And let us all remember that gay and lesbian rights were not popular then, as they are today. It was a tough vote. And I’m sorry to have to tell you that bill won by an overwhelming majority in the House…. That was not a politically easy vote.
“Now today, some are trying to rewrite history by saying that they voted for one antigay law to stop something worse. That’s not the case. There was a small minority in the House opposed to discriminating against our gay brothers and sisters, and I am proud that I was one of those members.”
Sanders never mentioned Clinton by name, but the pointed comment came as part of a list of comparisons to the former secretary of State — including on the Keystone Pipeline and Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement — that cast him as the candidate most likely to stick with principles.
Republicans proposed DOMA in an election year, and Bill Clinton had already been tripped up by LGBT equality at the start of his term, when he tried to keep a campaign promise to let gays and lesbians serve openly in the military. Instead, the Clinton administration compromised and the nation got “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which led to thousands of dishonorable discharges of men and women who were outed or did not stay in the closet.
So, facing a veto-proof margin of approval for the law in Congress, Bill Clinton signed DOMA after midnight.
Famed LGBT activist David Mixner recalled Bill Clinton’s signing of DOMA to The New York Times critically in 2013, after the former president finally decried it as unconstitutional: “He made a political calculation that was an immoral calculation.”
Even the president’s former press secretary, Mike McCurry, was blunt in that same article about what had led to Bill Clinton signing DOMA: “His posture was quite frankly driven by the political realities of an election year in 1996.” Then Bill Clinton made things worse with LGBT voters when he touted the signature in campaign ads for his reelection.
Still, when the former president renounced DOMA in 2013, in an op-ed for the Washington Post, he began it by telling the same version of history that Hillary Clinton did in the Maddow interview. He quoted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court by a group of senators who said they believed DOMA “would defuse a movement to enact a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, which would have ended the debate for a generation or more.”
Watch a clip from Bernie Sanders’s speech below via CSPAN:
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Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion?
Open Question: Why do Christians claim persecution when they have a right to practice their religion?
Christians can go to church to worship God, set up Bible study in colleges and high schools. They can practice their faith openly and without fear of being arrested. This alone means they are not persecuted at all. When Lgbt people gain marriage and adoption rights and are included in non discrimination policies along with religion is it not persecution of the Christian faith. It is simply a group of people who Christians did suppress and deny earlier gaining their rights.
Michigan School Pulls ‘Captain Underpants’ From Book Fair Over Gay Character – VIDEO
Michigan School Pulls ‘Captain Underpants’ From Book Fair Over Gay Character – VIDEO
In a blatant example of anti-LGBT censorship, a Michigan elementary school has banned the latest installment of the popular children’s book series “Captain Underpants” from an upcoming fair because it includes a gay character.
Barry Martin, superintendent of the Monroe School District, says the Parent-Teacher Organization opted to remove the book from the Arborwood Elementary book fair based on a warning from Scholastic Books. However, a panel of experts at Scholastic Books that reviewed the book deemed it appropriate for events like the Arborwood Elementary book fair.
In “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-lot,” the 12th installment in the series from author Dav Pilkey, the main character Harold travels 20 years ahead in time to meet his adult self and discovers he’s married to a man. Although it’s a relatively minor plotline in the story, it was enough to get the attention of the PTO.
From WXYZ-TV in Detroit:
“Scholastic notified us and the school that there was a book that may be a little controversial,” said Dr. Barry Martin, superintendent of Monroe Public Schools.
“The school decided we’ll make it available online,” said Martin. “But, we won’t make it available in the actual book fair itself.”
Martin says the PTO opted to pull “Captain Underpants” because kids, from kindergarten up, shop at the book fair alone and without parental supervision. But not all parents support the decision, according to WDIV-TV:
“If you’re in this world, they should know about that regardless. I mean, (parents) should have that conversation before it’s brought up,” said Kimberly Rose, a parent who opposes the decision to ban this book from the fair.
In a statement about the book when it was published in September, author Pilkey said:
“When it comes to books, we may not all agree on what makes for a good read, but I hope we can agree that letting children choose their own books is crucial to helping them learn to love reading.”
A review on Amazon.com says the book also refers to GOPs as “grumpy old people.”
But according to the American Library Association, the PTO’s decision could amount to illegal censorship:
“Librarians and governing bodies should maintain that parents—and only parents—have the right and the responsibility to restrict the access of their children—and only their children—to library resources.” Censorship by librarians of constitutionally protected speech, whether for protection or for any other reason, violates the First Amendment.
The ACLU has more on why anti-LGBT censorship is so problematic:
For gay people and their families this type of censorship is not just an abstract philosophical concern. The fact of the matter is that children with same-sex parents attend schools across the country, and blocking websites or removing books from the shelves won’t change that. It only serves to stigmatize these students and their families as something dirty or shameful. Libraries should reflect the diversity of all kinds of ideas — and all kinds of families.
Watch a news report on the controversy below.
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Michigan School Pulls ‘Captain Underpants’ From Book Fair Over Gay Character – VIDEO
