Tag: sexual orientation

'I began telling a bizarre series of lies' I was at a barber last week, having a trim before heading on my honeymoon with my new husband. Despite having spent most of the day excitedly telling friends about what we had planned for the trip, I found myself shying away from telling the man cutting my hair anything about what I would be up to. In fact, I began telling a bizarre series of lies. He asked me who I was going with,...

Hey you, wielding that magnificently ornate hand-fan and insistently telling everyone your gaydar is on point. Drop that magnificent fan at once, and tell us: Do you really think you can guess the sexual orientation of a total stranger That was the challenge presented to a roomful of strangers in a video that’s quickly gone viral, in which participants were asked to wager where each of their peers falls on the sexuality spectrum. Produced by Watchcut Video, the short film finds...

These guys tried to do just that - and the results are eye-opening. Is it really possible to guess the sexual orientation of a complete stranger? That’s the question being posed in a new viral video which sees everyday people attempt to guess where a series of strangers lie on the spectrum of sexuality. The clip by WatchCut Video sees five participants assign labels to a series of individuals base on nothing more than their appearance and answers to a quick series...

Apparently we're not real A U.S. Pastor has claimed that gay people aren’t real. John MacArthur, a preacher at the Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, revealed his bizarre belief when a church-goer asked whether his sexual orientation could stop him getting into heaven. In response to the 78-year-old man’s question, MacArthur suggested that of course he would get into heaven, because being gay isn’t actually a thing that exists. Mind blown. “No one is gay. If you mean by that, that that’s...

Lambda Legal: 'Its implications are far reaching' A Colorado baker’s fight to not to bake wedding cakes for gay couples is heading to the US Supreme Court. The high court announced today that it will hear the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips who turned away same-sex couples from his bakery in Lakewood, Colorado. It was in July 2012 that Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig requested a rainbow-layered cake from the bakery. Phillips told them his faith kept him from accepting the...

Jasper and Ronnie Vernes-Sewratan were brutalized last Sunday, reportedly because they were holding hands in public. Thousands of Dutch men walked hand-in-hand this week, after Jasper Vernes-Sewratan and Ronnie Sewratan-Vernes were attacked by five youths for holding hands in Arnhem last Sunday. But now one of the suspects claims their sexual orientation is “irrelevant” to the case: The unnamed youth maintains he was provoked—that one of the couple threw the first punch. He also denied using a bolt-cutter in the attack,...

The head of an Indonesian university has initiated a program to “normalise” gay students. The State University of Gorontalo (UNG) in northern Indonesia issued the new policies which target members of the LGBT community. Syamsu Qamar Badu, the rector of the university, announced that a “special team” will be employed to look out for and offer counselling too students who they suspect may be within the community. “This identification process will not be easy, but we can’t just let it happen if...

Why are you so straight? Why are you so gay? Why are you so bi? Science doesn't have any definite answers. I reached out to Ritch Savin-Williams, a developmental psychologist at Cornell University and author of several books focused on sexuality. I asked him what we know about why and how people develop their sexual preferences. He explained that the answer is not all that much, and that the problem is that there's no good way to do the necessary research. "We...

I am Zach, 22 years old and I am about to come out to my family today. Some of my friends, those who know the truth about me, always asked me what made me wait this much. But they don’t know my story. They don’t know that my father is a homophobe and my mom usually shares his point of view. My brother, Brandon, has been expelled from the family 2 years ago after admitting being gay. He is...

My best friend, who happened to be hetero, once had promised me to accompany me in a nightclub which was not just an ordinary one, but a gay-themed one. He would do anything for me and, this time, was not an exception, perhaps because he had no idea what was awaiting him there though I knew, I wouldn’t tell him, too. I was quite excited, it was our first time to such a place together and I was curious...

27-year-old Charlie Carver has come out as gay on his Instagram account. You may know Carver from Desperate Housewives where he plays the role of Lynette's son, or from Teen Woolf. The young actor explained how he was constrained to stay closeted by the entertainment industry. “As a young man, I needed a young man in Hollywood to say that — and without being a dick about it, I owe it to myself, more than anything, to be who I...

This revolutionary claim is the result of several test studies involving 47 pairs or identical adult male twins. 37 of those pairs contained one gay and one straight twin and the other 10 contained only homosexual pairs. A computer program has been used in determining whether there are evidence in the human genome that would support any view on the unborn’s sexuality. The observation revealed that there are 9 regions present in the genetic code that were essential in...

This is not just a story but it is rather a story about how love can transcend time and space and can endure, despite everything faith throws at it. I am Ben and I am a 68 years old gay living in the States. I was born here and I have been raised in a homophobic family for most of my life, until I have reached 24. It was at that time when I decided that I should take...

This may seem like a cocky statement from my part, but the fact that I was brilliant was undeniable. Who am I kidding? I am. I am Mark, I am 25 and if you think I am too full of myself that is because I have been denied what was rightfully mine: the opportunity to prove myself. All I ever wanted was a fair chance like everybody else, but I never thought I will be discriminated based on such...