Tag: homosexuality

Rev. Danny Cortez had spent over two decades as a Southern Baptist pastor, and as such was not supportive of homosexuality. When his son came out as gay in 2014, he had a monumental change of heart that would shake up his church. Rev. Cortez decided he needed to preach a message of support for his son and to let his congregation know not only that he had changed him mind on the matter, but also why. “That morning I came to...

In what's becoming a horrifying pattern in Mosul — Iraq's second-largest city and one controlled by the radical Islamist group — the men were pushed off a tall building, falling to their deaths. Four men accused of homosexuality and sodomy have been executed in Mosul, the northern Iraqi city under ISIS control. The men were pushed off a shuttered central Mosul office building Saturday, according to a report in Iraqi News, which also noted that two of the men were ISIS...

Earlier this year, Saudi Arabian prosecutors made a serious push to make demonstrating homosexuality in public or on social media punishable by death. To this day, those found guilty of sodomy run the risk of being sentenced to years of imprisonment, stiff fines, corporal punishment in the form of beatings, floggings, and lashings, and, in the most extreme cases, public execution. A man was arrested in March simply for raising a rainbow flag outside his home. There have been roughly “50 cases of...

“It’s a humiliating bombshell that could destroy Will Smith’s fractured marriage,” the lead reads. “The Suicide Squad actor has been drawn into a secret hush money and cover-up scandal with his rumored gay lover!” Those are the words of blogger Melissa Cronin at RadarOnline, whose latest attempt at outing Will Smith was published bright and early this morning. Happy Tuesday! “The explosive allegations about Smith’s scheme with actor and longtime friend Duane Martin were uncovered in scandalous court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com,” Cornin writes. Humiliating bombshell? Cover-up scandal? Explosive...

Hi, I am Steven and I can honestly say I have only discovered what being happy means after my straight friend Rooney helped me. We are childhood friends and basically we have done everything together, starting with the first years of school and ending with college and the job integration. We now both work for the same company, he as an accountant and myself as a jurist and many of those who have met us asked us if we are...

Where I grew up, in the South, the concept of homosexuality was limited only to tidings of damnation to all those guilty of indulgence. Where being a color other than white was a crime, to be gay was to be the spawn of Satan. It was here that I, a freshman at our small town’s deeply Christian high school found out who I truly was. My parents had moved there from Alabama when I was 8. As soon as I...

There's been debates over where homosexuality resides in, and science seems to prove that it's innate. Another study using genetic material from 47 pairs of twins, where one of them was gay, revealed different DNA structures. "The relative contributions of biology versus culture and experience in shaping sexual orientation in humans continues to be debated," said Margaret M. McCarthy pharmacology professor at University of Maryland."But regardless of when, or even how, these epigenetic changes occur," she added, the new research "demonstrates...

The Republican Party in Texas wanted to come with a policy against gay people so they put up on their platform the following motion: “Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that is contrary to the fundamental unchanging truths that has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.” Their purpose was to deny homosexuality on the grounds of religion, but instead they messed up the grammar and their motion actually says that “Homosexuality...

You have seen this for decades. It is part of the pop culture and it is more than obvious that society has been constantly promoting this idea over the years. But what makes women prefer gays as close friends rather than straight guys? Researchers have been puzzled by this aspect for quite a while now and they have elaborated a theory recently involving some psychological studies. There have been identified few causes leading to this behavior and here they are: Gays...

I know it sounds weird, but this is how things actually are. People are afraid of gay sex and it seems like it goes down to our biology. The so called “gay therapies” that many homosexuals have been subjected to seemed to work at the time, but new studies today actually negate those observations. When interviewed, the same gay people who have been “de-converted” claimed that they are still sexually attracted by the opposite sex just as before. The...

French artist and photographer Olivier Ciappa has put together the Imaginary Couples series to tackle homophobia around the world and spread the message "nothing but love." Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has participated to the project supporting same-sex love. She posed alongside Lara Fabian as a same-sex couple . Other straight actors, artists and athletes, including Sicario director Denis Villeneuve and Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée posed as gay couples for Ciappa's project. The series has been displayed all over the world from Europe to...

Homosexuality runs through all human cultures and has done throughout history - but we gay people have always been in the minority and always will be - that’s biology for you! However, what would the world look like if we weren’t simply in the majority, but if everyone were gay? It’s fun to think about. Obviously, there would be no homophobia - just like there is no ‘humanphobia’! But what else would be different? For a start, all the romantic...

Is this a new turn in the way the Church views the LGBT community or is it dust in the eyes? Whatever the case may be, things seem to slowly change. This time around 100 senior Anglicans sent a letter to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, saying that the Church should apologize for its homophobic remarks. They began gathering signatures from the country’s cathedral deans, which forced Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury to summon a meeting to...

Once again we find out about there are some societies around the Globe with an actual disregard towards basic human rights and values. This is an attitude that ISIS has constantly shown ever since it entered in conflict with the civilized world. Another innocent died on Friday after ISIS members threw it off the roof of a building. In these cases, the executions always take place publicly in the front of a crowd. There are two reasons for that....