San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy says the Roman Catholic Church must purge itself of “long-standing bigotry” against the LGBT community. In a strongly worded defense of a priest’s book about the church’s relationship with the gay community, McElroy writes in America Magazine that a “cancer of vilification” and “judgmentalism” are harming the church.
Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth at this weekend’s Folsom Street Fair rejected by Facebook as violating their advertising policies.
Albuquerque Mennonite Church will announce today that they have called Erica Lea to be their pastor — the first openly LGBTQ person to serve as a lead pastor in the Mennonite Church USA, a denomination that claims more than 70,000 adult members in the U.S.
A new LGBT hashtag has taken Twitter by storm, and it will warm your rainbow-coloured soul. There is nothing quite as wonderful as seeing LGBT youth embrace their identities and celebrate them with other out people.
When Platinum Poire owner Rori Sassoon realized there was a much needed opening in her matchmaking company for the upscale gay male crowd, she called on clothing designer Franco Lacosta to bring in his friends to help launch the new division.
Choosing a new name can be a big part of transitioning for transgender and gender non-conforming people, who often aren’t comfortable still being called by their birth name (also sometimes called a “dead-name”). But just like parents choosing a name for their newborn, the decision isn’t always easy.
Being attracted to both men and women doesn’t necessarily mean that a person will have more sexual partners. But bisexual individuals, especially males, are facing higher risk for sexually transmitted disease than in the past.
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