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Origin of the bandana codeThe wearing of various colored bandanas around the neck was common in the mid and late nineteenth century among cowboys and miners in the Western United States. It is thought that the wearing of bandanas by gay men originated in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, when, because of a shortage of women, men dancing with each other in square dances developed a code where the man wearing the blue bandana took the male part in the square dance, and the man wearing the red bandana took the female part (these bandanas were usually worn around the arm or hanging from the belt or in the back pocket of one's jeans).The modern-day version of this Bandana Code actually originates back to the 70s when in New York the world-renowned newspaper, the Village Voice published an article suggesting that it would be easier for gay men in the Village to pick each other up if they didn't only have to rely on wearing their keys in their back pockets, left to denote active, right passive. The feature suggested that they should all get down to the surplus store at the intersection of Christopher and Washington Streets where they could buy color-coded Levi's bandanas.Although it was originally said in a sarcastic manner, the gay community took the recommendation to heart, not only in New York, but eventually across the globe. Although the code isn't as strong as it once was, it still exists in some circles.How the bandanas are worn to display the codeThe bandanas are worn (often in the rear jeans pocket) on the left side of the body for tops and the right for bottoms (this division is still somewhat common: tops may wear keys on the left belt loop and bottoms on the right, for example), or sometimes are worn around the neck (tied on the right or left side). The bandanas may also be worn hanging from the left or right side of one's belt. A Go Go dancer at a gay club may wear the bandanas around the right or left side of his g-string to indicate what kind of sex he is interested in if he meets someone after his performance.There is no universally understood color code, and there have been some regional variations. There is general agreement upon the colours for more common practices, particularly those with an indexical relation between the color and the practice (eg: yellow for watersports, brown for scat, red for fisting, green for sex for money), but there is no absolute consensus for the more uncommon practices; the colours shown here represent a more or less common consensus.Black: Heavy S&M*************** Grey: Bondage********************** White: Mutual Masturbation************ Red: Fisting*********************** Light blue: Oral Sex***************** Robin Egg Blue: 69****************** Navy Blue: Anal sex****************** Pink: dildos************************* Charcoal: Latex, PVC, or Rubber Fetish******** Orange: Anytime/anyplace or expert at everything********* Yellow: Watersports*************** Medium Blue: Cop Sex (Wearing police uniforms)************** Turquoise Blue: Aquaphilia--Having sex in water*************** Teal: Cock and ball torture*********** Khaki: Military Sex (Wearing military uniforms)*************** Coral: Foot Fetish****************** Green: Sugar daddy (left) or Hustler (right)******* Mauve: Navel fetish******************8 Brown: Scat***************** Lavender: Cross dressing*************** Mustard :Size queen(left-has big cock;right-wants big cock)********************** Gold: Three Way****************** Beige: Rimming****************** Camouflage: Outdoor sex**************** Magenta : armpits**************** Fuchsia: Spanking**************** Gold: Looking for a bodybuilder************* Silver: Starfucker or Starfuckee (Looking for a rock star********* Tie-dye: Chalk Torture**************
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Queer Theory is a pairing of words coined by Teresa de Lauretis during a "working conference on theorizing lesbian and gay sexualities that was held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in February 1990." Around this time Judith Butler published Gender Trouble, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick published Epistemology of the Closet, David Halperin published One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, and countless others went to work on this new area of thought. The beginning debates sometimes focused on social constructionist vs. essentialist ideologies. That is, are the categories of sexuality socially contrived, created through discourse, or are they natural givens, outside of our control to make or change?
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We refer to basic human rights like the freedom of speech and association, liberty, and equal treatment in court as civil rights, because they are fundamental rights that each and every citizen should not be denied on the basis of their sex, race, or religious belief. Though it has been proven that homosexuality -- the sexual desire for those of the same sex as oneself -- has existed since humans have begun documenting human history, the framers of the Constitution did not include the unconstitutionality of discrimination against citizens on the base of sexual preference, thus, making this discrimination perfectly legal.Inspired by the African American Civil Rights Movement, homosexuals in America began to organize themselves and to fight for the equality and the justice they did not have yet. With the rise of gay rights activists, gay-rights opponents appeared, and the issue about homosexuals' rights turned into a controversial, legal battle, which today is still fought with neither party entirely winning.By taking a close look at the history of gay rights, common prejudices against homosexuals, and the common arguments used on both sides of this topic without the emotional heat and biases, which is often linked with this controversial topic, one is able to think critically and approach the issue of homosexuality in a more reasonable way.Homosexuals are defined as people who are sexually attracted by other persons of the same sex. The words "gays" or "gay people" are also common terms used instead of "homosexuals", whereas "lesbians" are only used to describe female homosexuals. These fundamental definitions of homosexuals already indicate that this minority group is evenly distributed throughout the entire society. Homosexuals can be both men and women. They exist in all classes, social groups, races, positions, and countries, regardless of their age or origin. As far as historians can trace back the past, homosexuals have always been in existence, including Julius Caesar, Plato, and Alexander the Great (Sloan 1).History has also shown that gay people have always been discriminated against. Not only were gay people denied of equal treatment in court ("de jure"), but they also have been victims of violence and harassment in our own society on the base of their sexual orientation ("de facto"). Homosexuality was labeled a felony crime in the past, existing "Sodomy Laws" which prohibit oral and anal sexual intercourse, even between consenting adults, were primarily used to target homosexuals, and the current federal government denies openly gays employment to federal institutions like the CIA, FBI, the army -- nation's biggest employer in the United States -- or the National Security Agency. The government even regularly removes openly gay officials from public positions, and so do a lot of other employers in the private sector (Mohr 6).In individual cases, homosexuals are often harassed, insulted, kicked, punched, and thrown at by fellow classmates, coworkers, and even family members just for being gay. These discriminations base on prejudices and stereotypes that society has of the gay community.Among the most common stereotypes are those which carry fear and ignorance. Gays are said to be "child molesters" and "sex-crazed maniacs". They are considered extremely "immoral" because they do not follow social customs, "unnatural" because homosexuality violates the basic functions of genitals and contradicts the nature.Religious leaders reason that Jesus asks the mankind in the Bible "to go out and have children." Since homosexuals are not able to reproduce children, homosexuality is, therefore, from their prospective an act of sin.Gayness is considered by opponents a voluntary "act" and "behavior", which a person can act on. Some opponents go that far that, since homosexuality is from their point of view a matter of choice, their sexual practices are "crimes" which make homosexuals criminals.On the other hand, gays defend themselves by arguing that homosexuality is a characteristic with which they are attached in the early childhood or even with birth. Gays do not have a choice over their homosexuality as heterosexuals do not have a choice over their heterosexuality. Hence, gayness is a condition over which they do not have, just as no one has control over his or her ethnic race, origin, outer appearance, or the class they he or she is born in. In addition, empirical research on adult sexual orientation and molestation of children has shown that gay men are not more likely to molest children than heterosexual men.Based on this argumentation, homosexuals urged the government to ban discrimination of people on the basis of their sexual preference. However, up until the decades after the Second World War, in which Hitler did not only murdered Jews, but also homosexuals, there has been no powerful and effective gay rights movement. The reason for the ineffectiveness of the first movements lies in the fact that the gay community represents a so-called "invisible minority", that is a minority which "due to the fear of public inacceptance and disadvantage (losing one's job/public humiliation) do not openly reveal themselves" (Mohr 84). Just like the demand for freedom by slaves in the past resulted in more discrimination by the slave-owners, homosexuals faced the same vicious circle.Since homosexuals often compare themselves with other minority groups like the Jews or the African Americans, they were very inspired by the African American Civil Rights Movement by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His ideas, concepts, and demands for equal protection were adopted by the gay community, and especially King's success is the key element for the sudden rise of the Gay Rights Movement only several years later.The Gay Rights Movement is rooted in the so-called Stonewall riots, marking the first major attempt of gays to organize themselves and to resist discrimination. In the summer of 1969 policemen in New York started to raid unlicensed bars, resulting in closings of five gay bars with minor street disturbances. The Stonewall Inn, an unlicensed and Mafia-operated bar in Greenwich Village, was raided by nine policemen in the early mornings of June 28th 1969. As the policemen arrested and escorted five employees and customers, they faced an unexpectedly angry and violent mob outside the Stonewall Inn, yelling, throwing coins, rocks, beer bottles, and bricks at the policemen. During the following forty-five minutes, the nine policemen were involved in a violent struggle, in which the protesters were beaten by policemen, and in which the crowd tried to set the bar with the policemen inside on fire. As police reinforcement arrived, the crowd which had already rose to about 400 angry protesters, finally spread out, but re-gathered for two additional nights around the then-closed Stonewall Inn to protest against the police's discrimination of gay bars, shouting slogans like "Gay Power", "Legalize gay bars", and "Gay is good."The significance of this local incident, however, is tremendous, and it had an enormous influence on the national level. New gay rights groups were formed within days, "Gay Power" meetings were held in Greenwich Village, and existing gay rights groups started a series of activities to call for national, organized resistance against discrimination.This rapid rise of organization in the entire nation achieved to change, at least, a part of the mainstream's cultural view on homosexuality. Empirical data obtained by experiments, combined with this changing social norm, led the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Association to finally remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1974, marking this the first major success of the gay community. It opened up doors for a series of new political campaigns of organizations, pushing for changes in the way gays were viewed by society, and for protection from discrimination in jobs and housing.However, with the rise of the pro-gay activists, anti-gay activists started to organize themselves. One of the most famous anti-gay activists is Anita Bryant, who successfully campaigned to repeal an ordinance in St. Paul in 1978 to prohibit anti-gay discrimination. In her campaign named "Save Our Children", she opposed the fact that homosexuals have been allowed to work as teachers in elementary schools and claims that they not only lead their children into homosexuality, but also portray threat to our vulnerable society.In a similar fashion, homosexuals have been targeted when AIDS became a worldwide problem in the early years of the eighties. Gay men were primarily infected with HIV due to the fact that their sexual activity, which includes the semen transmission between two man, makes them extremely vulnerable. As females who have sexual contact with HIV-infected men were infected, and as children, drug-addicts who share infected needles, became potential targets of AIDS, homosexuals have been blamed as a threat to the innocent society. They were labeled disease carriers, and were said to "pollute" an innocent part of the human population. Once more, recent empirical studies were needed to show that "the assumption that all or most gay people have AIDS [...] is simply wrong" (Bender 84). In fact, heterosexual sex is nowadays the main cause for the virus to spread, representing 90% of new AIDS-cases.As homosexuality is becoming more and more socially accepted during the eighties, gay rights groups started to shift their campaign towards equal political treatment. Basically, gay rights movement is defined as the demand of gays to be treated as equal citizens with the same rights, privileges, and treatment as heterosexuals do.Progressive success did the Gay Rights Movement gain during the last decades concerning the military issue. In 1942 the U.S. military took side in the controversial issue about homosexuality, as it banned all homosexuals and denied them the right to enter military service by arguing that their presence would make heterosexual soldiers feel "uncomfortable" and decrease their efficiency and productivity.Although gays have been asking for equal rights since then, it was President Clinton who took the first pro-gay step. Being lobbied by successful gay rights activists, president Clinton introduced the so-called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Although "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" does not remove the ban of homosexuals in the military (what president Clinton had promised the gay community during his political campaign), it legalizes the existence of gay soldiers in the military as long as they do not publicly reveal their sexual orientation ("don't tell"). Furthermore, military officials are not allowed to ask soldiers about their sexual orientation ("don't ask").Though this policy might be intended to decriminalize homosexuality, it clearly still discriminates against homosexuals, given the fact that they are denied of First Amendment rights like the freedom of speech and association, and that they are not treated as equal citizens (violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment). From this arguments, six lesbian and gay soldiers questioned the entire policy in Able vs. USA, and gained major success as U.S. Federal Judge Eugene Nickerson of the Eastern District of New York struck down the entire policy on July 2nd 1997 for it violates the Constitution's equal protection guarantee.However, gays still are not satisfied as long as the most controversial issue concerning equal protection rights -- the question about legalizing same-sex marriage -- is still not solved. A legal marriage is accompanied with a vast amount of legal advantages, including tax advantages, next-of-kin-status (which gives one partner of a relationship the right to visit the other partner in hospitals), rights of inheritance in the absence of a will, and retirement benefits, but homosexuals face the problem that same-sex marriages are not allowed in any state for the time being. When in 1983 one of the first cases was brought to public, in which a lesbian couple was denied to see each other in hospital after a partner's accident, the court referred to the legal definition of marriage, that is the union of one man and one woman. Given this disadvantage and discrimination by our own government, gay rights activists have been trying to lobby politicians and representatives for almost two decades. They are urging state governments to legalize same-sex marriage.Nonetheless, the only state to attempt legalizing same-sex marriage is Hawaii. Circuit Court Judge Kevin Chang ruled in December 1996 that the state of Hawaii should not deny gay couples a marriage license, after the governor of Hawaii signed a bill prohibiting same-sex marriages on June 22, 1994. This case is now being held in the state legislature, and will be voted by the citizens of Hawaii in 1998. This legislation, if approved, would mark the most significant success in the legal battle about homosexuality. Polls, however, have shown that the majority of the Hawaii citizens would rather support an amendment which "reserves marriage to opposite-sex couples." Once again do homosexuals compare themselves with African Americans who were denied of interracial marriage before Supreme Court's decision to decriminalize interracial marriages in Loving vs. Virginia, 1967.The comparison between the gay community and the African American society can be seen throughout the entire movement. The lynching of black men who where falsely accused of raping white women (or the discrimination of Jews who were falsely accused of murdering Christian babies in ritual sacrifices for that matter) parallels false accusations that homosexuals all molester children and/or lead children into homosexuality. Both minorities ask for equal social and political treatment. Although the African American society has gained political freedom and equality de facto, the gay community still faces both the discrimination de jure and de facto. One has to realize that the current federal law does not prohibit discrimination against gay people; sexual orientation discrimination remains perfectly legal.Nevertheless, the Gay Rights Movement was able to take further steps towards freedom, equality, and dignity in recent years. Nine states (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin), the District of Columbia, hundreds of businesses and universities have enacted laws that protect gay people from employment discrimination. More than a dozen cities (including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, and the District of Columbia) have introduced the status of "domestic partnership" which, although it does not legalize same-sex marriage, gives homosexual couples the same legal advantages as heterosexual couples have. In addition, a 13-12 vote by the University of California Board of Regents on November 21st 1997 will finally extend health care benefits to gay partners of UC employees at all Californian public universities. President Clinton is the first sitting president throughout U.S. history to publicly address the gay community. His pro-gay speech on November 8th 1997 at a fund-raising event is highly regarded by gay rights activists for it emphasizes the need of homosexuals' equality.As we approach the turn into a new millennium, the citizens of the United States is once more deeply divided. Important decisions on homosexuality are to be made, and countries like Denmark and Norway serve as models, as the governments have legalized gay marriages already in 1989 and 1993.It is, therefore, important for the people to be involved in this issue and to clearly take side, rather than just avoiding the problem. If one tries to avoid the problem of integration of homosexuals just out of convenience, one is as irresponsible as those who did not take side when the nation was deeply divided when it came to the question about slavery, women's right to vote, and African Americans' equal protection rights. The history of tolerance is going to reach another landmark, and no one should miss the opportunity to raise his or her voice.
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When Christians pour their judgment on homosexual men and women, they do nothing less than make a mockery of their own savior, Jesus Christ. The grace they are willing to accept as followers of Christ is suddenly not good enough to extend to those they find offensive. It's a double standard, based not in biblical truth but in fear and the desire for control. To understand this, we must understand what Christians believe, and how their beliefs are being subverted from living in love to the canonizing of condemnation.Christians believe we all have sins that keep us from eternal life. None of us are good enough to earn our way into heaven, not even the Mother Teresa's of the world.1 Sin - the breaking of God's laws as laid down in the Bible - must be "atoned" for; it must be penalized, and the penalty is eternal death,2 what some call going to hell. But all is not lost, say Christians, because God himself paid the price by sending his son, in the person of Jesus Christ, to die for all of us.3 This is called "propitiation," where Christ died in our place to pay the penalty of sin. In essence, he became all of us for those moments that he hung on the cross; he became whatever kind of sinner we are, and then he took those sins to the grave.4 But, as most of us know from celebrating Easter each year, Christians believe Christ did not stay in the grave. Once the penalty of sin was erased, Christ was raised from the dead and now lives in heaven with God.5But we are not automatically "saved" from out sins. A person must decide to accept Christ's sacrifice on the cross in order to "join the family of God."6 Some people believe we must say a prayer, asking God to forgive us of our sins.7 Others say we must simply choose to believe in Christ.8 Still others say we must confess our belief in Christ's sacrifice by going through a public ritual that represents Christ's death and resurrection, a ritual known as baptism.9 Whichever way it's done, we must consciously decide to accept Christ's sacrifice for our own sins. This is called "grace." In a nutshell, grace is forgiving someone when they have wronged you. Since Christians believe all of us have wronged God with our sins, by believing that Christ paid our eternal penalty for our wrongdoing, we are accepting God's grace.10Sounds simple enough. But it's not. Once you become a Christian, you should start seeing a change in your behavior.11 You should start learning to love.12 You should also stop wanting to sin.13 But here's the catch. You can't. Even after you accept Christ's forgiveness, you will continue to be a sinner. Try as you might to stop altogether, you just can't.14 Even the Apostle Paul, one of the most prolific writers in the Bible, complained that he kept sinning.15 But we are told to keep trying and that we should see some progress.16 We are also told that some people who say the words to become a Christian may not actually believe what they were saying. These people are not really saved.17 And, say some Christians, you'll know who they are because they don't even try to stop sinning, even though those who are saved can never stop either.Confused? It gets worse. Some Christians have made an art of figuring out who is saved and who is not. They figure that if you are at least trying to align your lifestyle to fit their interpretation of God's laws, then you are living under God's grace. But if you choose to continue living in a lifestyle displeasing to God, you cannot really be saved because you are living in a state of rebellion. These Christians are diligent to pick out those sins that are "lifestyle" sins and those that are once-in-a-while sins that can affect even good Christians. Once-in-a-while sins they blow off with the phrase, "we all fail sometime." Lifestyle sins they condemn loudly, making the point that people who practice such sins are bound for hell, and if they seduce our children into such sins, they will go to hell too.And this is where these kinds of Christians, known collectively as the Religious Right or Fundamentalists, make a mockery of their own Savior. They do this by picking and choosing which lifestyle sins are covered by God's grace and which ones are not. They do this by claiming that God's grace covers their own lifestyle sins but not those of the homosexual. They do this by accepting God's grace in their own lives and then refusing to extend that same grace to those they condemn for having the wrong lifestyle.And they can do this because they don't believe they have any lifestyle sins of their own. If you ask them about it, they'll say things like, "I used to sleep around but I was forgiven of that sin and now I don't do it anymore." However, ask them if a homosexual can be saved by God's grace, and they will say, "The gay man who does not turn from his homosexuality is choosing to live a lifestyle counter to God's laws and is not, therefore, saved by grace." What they conveniently forget is that 50% of them - those who count themselves among the Religious Right - are divorced, and more than 85% of those are remarried. What that means is, according to the Bible, that nearly 43% of the same people who condemn the gay man for his homosexuality choose to live in a lifestyle of adultery, a sin that ranks equal to homosexuality in God's eyes.That's right. The very people who condemn one "sinful" lifestyle are practicing another.You see, in the Bible Jesus said:"Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery."Luke 16:18And the Apostle Paul (who continued to sin himself) said:"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God."1 Corinthians 6:9-10A divorced man who remarries is entering into an adulterous relationship. And it's not just a relationship; it's an adulterous lifestyle because the remarried man chooses to continue living in the adulterous relationship for the rest of his life (or until he divorces and remarries again). However, if you ask this adulterous man if he is still a Christian, he will say something like, "I believe God has forgiven me and I'm now living under his grace." And ask him if he's willing to leave his current wife in order to "turn from his adulterous lifestyle," and he will refuse because "God's grace has already saved him." But this is the same man who earlier claimed that the homosexual must turn from his "sinful" lifestyle as a condition of receiving God's grace.Sound unfair? It is.Sound ungodly? Let's see what Christ had to say about it:"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. "Matthew 7:1-2And:"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the reckoning, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents; and as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ..Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.' And out of pity for him the lord of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But that same servant, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat he said, ..Pay what you owe.' So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, ..Have patience with me, and I will pay you.' He refused and went and put him in prison till he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ..You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you besought me; and should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?' And in anger his lord delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."Matthew 18:23-35The Religious Right is nearly half-full with people living in continuous adulterous lifestyles, and those who are not remarried fully accept their remarried brothers and sisters without question. They even perform their adulterous marriage ceremonies in their churches. Yet they have the gall to preach from their pulpits or shout through the airwaves that God wants us to stop the world from accepting homosexuals the same way they have been accepted by God.Jesus warned us not to be like the servant who was forgiven his debt by the grace of his lord but then used the legal system to throw a fellow slave in jail.18 The Religious Right, however, claim God's grace for their own lifestyle sins but then turn around and give tremendous amounts of time and money to use the legal system against homosexuals.It is a double standard. It is a mockery. If Christ took their sins to the cross and became an adulterer through propitiation before burying that sin in the ground, then Christ also took the gay person's sin to the cross and became a homosexual before burying that sin in the ground. The Religious Right, and everyone else, should either accept that God's grace covers all of us, including those living in sinful lifestyles, or that none of us are covered. They should either condemn their remarried members or shut up about those among us who are gay.But they don't. And we are left to wonder why.Why do they pick on one "sinful" lifestyle but not their own? Why homosexuality and not adultery? They say it's because homosexuality is damaging our families and hurting our children. But which is really worse? Over 50% of American parents get divorced. Most of those remarry. Over 50% of our children have their families torn apart and then merged with the families of strangers (causing a lot of sexual abuse on children by step-parents). But less than 10% of the population is homosexual. Even if they had twice as many relationships as heterosexuals do, they could not possibly cause the kind of damage that heterosexual divorce and remarriage does.A more logical explanation is that these Christians are afraid of the unknown and they want to control it. Heterosexuals have often been uncomfortable with homosexuals. The term "fag" is used to insult one's manliness; and "dyke" to insult one's femininity. Society in general has not been kind to its homosexual members. But with the addition of Fundamentalist Religious fervor, and the ability to rationalize their own sins away, the Religious Right have turned the fear of homosexuality into a holy war against a portion of the population. Of course, the Religious Right claim they are not trying to hurt anyone. They use phrases like, "We must love the sinner but hate the sin." But as Einstein said and Christ demonstrated, "You cannot simultaneously say that you love someone and use your power against them."Christ did not use his power to legislate against the sinful people of his day. Instead he went drinking with them.19 Christ did not condemn the person caught with her pants down - literally. Instead he embarrassed her detractors by saying that anyone who had not sinned could throw the first stone at her - and not one got thrown.20 Christ did not raise money for his causes by claiming that those involved in the sinful lifestyles of his day were ganging up to "destroy the family." Instead he invited them to be his friends and followers.21And perhaps that is the most logical explanation yet. Playing on people's fears is a great way to make money. Advertisers use it every day. If you don't want dandruff, use this. If you don't want to smell bad, use that. If you don't want to end up sick or dead, eat our stuff instead of their stuff. And if you don't want homosexuals taking over our schools, support our cause by sending in your donations. Fear sells. Whether intentional or not, the truth is the Religious Right rake in a great deal of money every time they claim homosexuals are threatening our nation's families, or worse, our children. The former vice-president of Focus on the Family, a leading Religious Right organization, stated in his book, "James Dobson's War on America" (Dobson is the founder and president) that when their donations went down, they could simply broadcast a scary special about the gay agenda (or the evil women's movement or the even more evil abortion rights groups - but never remarried people since that would drive away nearly half of their listeners) and their revenues would increase substantially.22This is how they "love the sinner," by abusing them in order to make money? The term "mockery" doesn't begin to describe the trashing these so-called Christians are doing to God's name. The Religious Right should get down on their knees and beg the forgiveness of every homosexual man or woman they have publicly condemned on their way to the bank. They should beg God's forgiveness for being just like the wicked servant in Christ's story, forgiven of their own sinful lifestyles but unwilling to forgive the lifestyles of their fellow human beings. And then they should stop their self-righteous rhetoric and remember that for a moment in their savior's life, as he hung on a cross for everyone's sin, that Christ was gay.
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Edgar Hoover James Baldwin James Broughton James Buchanan James Dean James Baldwin James Coco James Dean James Merrill James VI & I Jasper Johns Javed Iqbal Jean Cocteau Jean Genet Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès Jeff Stryker Jeffrey Dahmer Jerome Robbins Jim Jones Joan Armatrading Joe Orton Johann Joachim Winckelmann John Rechy John Addington Symonds John Beresford Fowler John Brunner John Cage John du Pont John Henry Newman John Holmes John Maynard Keynes John Waters John Wayne Gacy Johnny Mathis Joseph McCarthy Julius Caesar Julius II Jurgen Bartsch Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Keith Haring King Edward II King James I Langston Hughes Larry Kramer Leonard Bernstein Leonardo da Vinci Liberace Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Byron Luchino Visconti Ludwig Wittgenstein Luis Cernuda Lytton Strachey Magnus Hirschfeld Malcolm Forbes Marcel Proust Marlon Brando Marshall Applewhite Marsilio Ficino Martin Duberman Matt Drudge Matthew Shepard Mehmet II Merv Griffin Michael Bennett Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Michel Foucault Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Signorile Mikhail (Alekseevich) Kuzmin Montgomery Clift Morrissey Nero Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Nikolai (Vasil'evich) Gogol Noel Coward Oscar Wilde Patrick White Paul Lynde Pedro Aldomovar Pee-wee Herman Pete Townshend Peter Doyle Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Petronius Philip Johnson Pier Paolo Pasolini Piers Gaveston Pim Fortuyn Plato Pope Benedict IX Pope John XII Pope Julius III Pope Leo X Pope Paul II Pope Sixtus IV Quentin Crisp Radclyffe Hall Ralph Lauren Raucourt Rev John Church Richard Wagner Richard Simmons Richard the Lionheart Rimbaud Rob Halford Robert Reed Robert Mapplethorpe Rock Hudson Roger Casement Roland Barthes Roy Cohn Rudolf Nureyev Rudolph Valentino RuPaul Rupert Everett Saint Augustine Samuel Barber Samuel Delaney Sappho Scott Thompson Serge Diaghilev Sergei (Mikhailovich) Eisenstein Sergei Esenin Sergey Diaghilev/Vaslav Nijinsky Sir Cecil Beaton Sir Francis Bacon Sir Hector Archibald Macdonald Sir Isaac Newton Sir John Gielgud Sir Michael Tippet Sir Noel Coward Sir Robert Baden-Powell Socrates St Aelred of Rievaulx St Anselm St. Augustine T. E. Lawrence Tennessee Williams Thom Gunn Thomas Mann Thorton Wilder Todd Haynes Tom Hulce Tom Waddell Tom of Finland Troy D. Perry Truman Capote Tyrone Power Versace Virgil W. H. Auden W. Somerset Maugham Walt Whitman William Shakespeare William Beckford William G Bonin William S. Burroughs William Taten (Bill) TildenClarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 02 Dec 2005 07:56 PSTGaydate,Here is the final copy of the list with the last modifications.Aaron Copland Abu Nuwas Alan Mathison Turing Alan Turing Aleister Crowley Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt Alexander the Great Alexander von Humboldt Allen Ginsberg André (Émile) Baudry Andre Gide Andrew Cunanan Andrew Sullivan Andrew Tobias Andy Warhol Anthony Perkins Armistead Maupin Arthur C. Clare Arthur Rimbaud Audre Lorde Author Rimbaud/Paul Verlaine Barney Frank Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden Bayard Rustin Benjamin Britton Benvenuto Cellini Billy Strayhorn Billy Tipton Blake Edwards Bob Paris Boy George Brian Epstein Bruce Nugent Bruce Vilanch Byron Camille Paglia Captain Crunch Carl Panzram Cary Grant Cecil Rhodes Cesar Romero Charles Laughton Charles Manson Charles Nelson Riley Christopher Isherwood Christopher Marlowe Clive Barker Cole Porter Constantine Cavafy Countée Cullen D. H. Lawrence Dan Savage Danny Kaye David Bowie David Kopay David and Jonathan David Geffen David Hockney Derek Jarman Desiderius Erasmus Dick Sargent Dirk Bogarde Donatello Dong Xian Doug Henning Dr. Tom Waddell E. M. Forster Edmund White Edward Albee Edward Carpenter Edward II Elton John Errol Flynn Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) Federico García Lorca Francis Bacon Francis Poulenc Fred Hirsch Freddie Mercury Frederick the Great Friedrich Krupp George Merrill George Gordon George Michael George Platt Lynes Gerry Studds Gilles de Rais Gore Vidal Greg Louganis Gus Van Sant Hadrian Hafiz Halston Hans Christian Andersen Harmodius and Aristogiton Hart Crane Harvey Fierstein Harvey Milk Henry (Harry) Hay, Jr. Henry James Herman Melville Horatio Alger Jr. Ian McKellen Ihara Saikaku Ivor Novello J C Leyendecker J. Edgar Hoover James Baldwin James Broughton James Buchanan James Dean James Baldwin James Coco James Dean James Merrill James VI & I Jasper Johns Javed Iqbal Jean Cocteau Jean Genet Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès Jeff Stryker Jeffrey Dahmer Jerome Robbins Jim Jones Joan Armatrading Joe Orton Johann Joachim Winckelmann John Rechy John Addington Symonds John Beresford Fowler John Brunner John Cage John du Pont John Henry Newman John Holmes John Maynard Keynes John Waters John Wayne Gacy Johnny Mathis Joseph McCarthy Julius Caesar Julius II Jurgen Bartsch Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Keith Haring King Edward II King James I Langston Hughes Larry Kramer Leonard Bernstein Leonardo da Vinci Liberace Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Byron Luchino Visconti Ludwig Wittgenstein Luis Cernuda Lytton Strachey Magnus Hirschfeld Malcolm Forbes Marcel Proust Marlon Brando Marshall Applewhite Marsilio Ficino Martin Duberman Matt Drudge Matthew Shepard Mehmet II Merv Griffin Michael Bennett Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Michel Foucault Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Signorile Mikhail (Alekseevich) Kuzmin Montgomery Clift Morrissey Nero Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Nikolai (Vasil'evich) Gogol Noel Coward Oscar Wilde Patrick White Paul Lynde Pedro Aldomovar Pee-wee Herman Pete Townshend Peter Doyle Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Petronius Philip Johnson Pier Paolo Pasolini Piers Gaveston Pim Fortuyn Plato Pope Benedict IX Pope John XII Pope Julius III Pope Leo X Pope Paul II Pope Sixtus IV Quentin Crisp Radclyffe Hall Ralph Lauren Raucourt Rev John Church Richard Wagner Richard Simmons Richard the Lionheart Rimbaud Rob Halford Robert Reed Robert Mapplethorpe Rock Hudson Roger Casement Roland Barthes Roy Cohn Rudolf Nureyev Rudolph Valentino RuPaul Rupert Everett Saint Augustine Samuel Barber Samuel Delaney Scott Thompson Serge Diaghilev Sergei (Mikhailovich) Eisenstein Sergei Esenin Sergey Diaghilev/Vaslav Nijinsky Sir Cecil Beaton Sir Francis Bacon Sir Hector Archibald Macdonald Sir Isaac Newton Sir John Gielgud Sir Michael Tippet Sir Noel Coward Sir Robert Baden-Powell Socrates St Aelred of Rievaulx St Anselm St. Augustine T. E. Lawrence Tennessee Williams Thom Gunn Thomas Mann Thorton Wilder Todd Haynes Tom Hulce Tom Waddell Tom of Finland Troy D. Perry Truman Capote Tyrone Power Versace Virgil W. H. Auden W. Somerset Maugham Walt Whitman William Shakespeare William Beckford William G Bonin William S. Burroughs William Taten (Bill) Tilden