Tag: acceptance

Let's hope something similar turns up in Queen Elizabeth II's next speech. King Harald V of Norway has given an incredible speech on accepting LGBTI people. In response to a large influx of refugees in recent months, the monarch decided to call for unity and inclusivity. ‘Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and boys and girls who love each other,’ he said. ‘Norwegians are also immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Somalia and Syria. It is not always easy...

While faith communities are slowly becoming more welcoming of LGBTQ people — in general and within their congregations — many religious groups are still preaching hate, appealing to children through cartoons. It was one such cartoon — a video put out by the Jehovah’s Witnesses telling a young girl how to preach to a classmate with two moms — that inspired a gay YouTube to create his own cartoon about God and gays with a message of love and acceptance. Olly...

Hi, I am Mitchel Fred Prattini, I am from Louisiana and I have lived a lie for my whole life. It was only when I have reached 19 I realized that I am actually gay and that I should finally accept it. But the struggle was very difficult, especially with myself. It’s hard to accept that you are not what you think you should be. Everybody around me was straight, everybody I knew at least, and this conflicted with my...

The Polari language was also known as Palarie, Palare, Parlarly and in various other forms and it was exclusively associated with gays and lesbians throughout the 20th century. It was mostly spread in London and it was an important part of the subculture that was being used by people confronted by the legal system that considered homosexuality, and especially sodomy, a criminal offense. What makes Polari different than any other language is that it was secret and only was only...