Open Question: Is this true?
www.petertatchellfoundation.org/lgbt-rights/gay-gene-debunked-environment-influences-sexuality

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Yoko Ono Settles The Score On John Lennon’s Long-Rumored Gay Love Affairs

In a candid interview from her apartment at the iconic/infamous Dakota Building in New York City’s Upper West Side, Yoko Ono shared her thoughts on art, equality, her husband’s murder on the sidewalk below, and John’s sexuality.

You can read the full piece on The Daily Beast.

Here are a few highlights:

Her thoughts on LGBTQ equality:

The existence of prejudice is “incredible,” she says, and marriage equality is “really great, we shouldn’t be so thankful. It’s just normal.”

Prejudice, she thinks, “goes both ways, I’m sure gays feel straights are really dumb. There’s more freedom being gay probably, that’s good.”

LGBTs should have true equality, Ono says, “and you’ll get it. Equality is people having to create their own future. That’s what they’re [gay people] doing. They should be very, very positive.”

“Equality under the law and equality in real life is slightly different,” says Ono. “People are different from how the law can control them. We have a very complex life called the human life. There’s more than equality in life.”

On her own sexuality, and John Lennon’s:

“Well, that’s another thing. John and I had a big talk about it, saying, basically, all of us must be bisexual. And we were sort of in a situation of thinking that we’re not [bisexual] because of society. So we are hiding the other side of ourselves, which is less acceptable. But I don’t have a strong sexual desire towards another woman.”

So did Lennon have sex with other men?

“No, I don’t think so,” says Ono. “The beginning of the year he was killed, he said to me, ‘I could have done it, but I can’t because I just never found somebody that was that attractive.’ Both John and I were into attractiveness—you know—beauty.”

Dan Tracer

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Newark Archbishop Bans Catholics Who Support Gay Marriage From Receiving Communion

Newark, New Jersey Bishop John J. Meyers has issued new guidelines outlining who among his parishioners should not receive holy communion–a list that includes any Catholic who supports gay marriage.

Meyers’ “memo” to priests under his jurisdiction comes as Pope Francis’ synod on the family convenes in Rome, discussing, among other things, how the Church should treat the LGBT community.

Religion News Service reports:

[Myers] says Catholics, “especially ministers and others who represent the Church, should not participate in or be present at religious events or events intended to endorse or support those who reject or ignore Church teaching and Canon Law.” […]

The memo is titled “Principles to Aid in Preserving and Protecting the Catholic Faith in the Midst of an Increasingly Secular Culture.” It is dated Sept. 22 and was sent to priests this week, according to a source who provided a copy to Religion News Service.

In the memo, Myers writes: “The Church will continue to cherish and welcome her members and invite them to participate in her life to the degree that their personal situation permits them honestly to do so.

“Catholics,” he continues, “must be in a marriage recognized as valid by the Church to receive Holy Communion or the other sacraments. Non-Catholics and any Catholic who publicly rejects Church teaching or discipline, either by public statements or by joining or supporting organizations which do so, are not to receive the Sacraments.”

Read the memo below:

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Newark Archbishop Bans Catholics Who Support Gay Marriage From Receiving Communion

22 Halloween Costumes For Grownups Who Are Big Kids At Heart

Hey, just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean you have to grow up! 

Seriously, let’s face it — though many of us are attempting to adult, we all know that we’re really just big kids at heart. So why not show off your fun and kooky side this Halloween with some costumes inspired by kids’ shows, movies and books?

From “The Powerpuff Girls,” to Darla from “Finding Nemo,” these getups will make you feel like a kid all over again — without the pain of braces or awkward school pictures. 

Check out the costumes below! 

Also on HuffPost:

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Open Question: Why are LGBT people so sensitive?
Lol they call me a homophobic just because I told them to stop complaining about their lives. I think it makes me laugh when they say people in other countries around the world are discriminating against LGBT people daily I think that is true but so are other groups of people being persecuted even killed around the world. Lol being a LGBT is not that bad it doesn’t give you some disadvantage in life they can still have a successful life and make good friends. . I also find it hilarious when they think I would hit on a lesbian or bisexual women. I don’t care about gay women dumbasses. I don’t take the time to look at a gay woman when she is walking by in real life. What I am trying to say is people who have genetic disabilities are usually more discriminated against than gay people are. The news doesn’t bother to say people with genetic disabilities are being persecuted the most because the public could care less about people with genetic disorders.

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Conservative Evangelicals Discuss Transgender Community

Conservative evangelical Christians have long been at the forefront of opposition to LGBT equality.
HRC.org

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Married Congressional Aide Attacks Male Lover With Shovel In Front Of Wife

An aide for Democratic Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan was arrested after allegedly choking his male lover, threatening to stab him with a knife and then whacking him with a shovel, authorities said.

Related: Straight Man Seeks Advice After Sleeping With His Married Boss

Tim Foster is, er, was the online communications director for Rep. Levin. That is, until last Thursday when he allegedly got into a heated verbal altercation with a man who identified himself as Foster’s boyfriend.

Roll Call reports the argument occurred at around 12:30 a.m. on October 8 in Baltimore. It’s unclear what sparked the blowup, but, according to police, Foster allegedly put the other man in a chokehold then yelled, “I want to kill you! Die dirty faggy!”

The boyfriend managed to break free. That’s when Foster grabbed a stainless steel kitchen knife and began waving it around in the air, threatening to stab him.

Related: “Straight” Married Man Feels Guilty After Messing Around With Another Guy

Things took an even more dramatic turn moments later when Foster’s wife — that’s right, he’s married to a woman — jumped between the two men in an effort to break up the fight. Foster dropped the knife then grabbed a shovel, hitting his boyfriend in the back as he fled for the safety of his car.

The boyfriend managed to escape and immediately drove to a nearby hospital where he was treated for abrasions and bruises on his upper back, neck and torso, police said.

Rep. Levin’s office says the issue is “a completely private matter” and it would not be commenting other than to say Foster has since been placed on unpaid leave.

A trial is scheduled for November 10.

Related: STUDY: At Least 5% Of American Men Are Gay, Millions Closeted, Many Married To Women

Graham Gremore

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Gay Adult Film Star Blue Blake Has Died

Gay adult film actor Blue Blake has died in London at 52. The cause of death is not yet known. Blake, née Glenn Marsh, was also a producer and director of gay adult films, who eventually started his own adult film company. He was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame in 2005.

SouthFloridaGayNews.com reports:

Blake, who reportedly died in London, performed in several gay porn scenes between 1993 and 2003 before taking a more active role behind the scenes, according to the website. Blake, whose real name is Glenn Marsh, ran his own studio, Big Blue Productions, and in 2008 published an autobiography “Out of the Blue; Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star.” […]

Blake was a former Royal Marine (the U.K.’s amphibious light infantry force) and hailed from Nottingham, England, according to Al’s Gay Porn Stars directory, which also notes he studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and appeared on stage in the U.K.

Below, watch an interview with Blake from 2009:

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