Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
This is also for individuals struggling with their attractions. It's not a guideline but a way to get out how we are brought up to see our relations with ourselves and others and learn about who we are and define ourselves. It also means finding your identity whether you rather call yourself Queer or avoid the "gay" word altogether.
Homosexuality is an spiritual, physical, mental, affectionate unconditional and conditional love and attraction to individuals of the same gender.
1. It means being able to walk with my girlfriend hand in hand at the mall or skate with her during the slow “partner” songs without the instructions of “male/female couples only.”
2. It means hoping that people define us by who we are as people and not just what is between our legs.
3. It means understanding the difference between homosexual lifestyle/action and homosexual identity/who a person is.
4. It means identifying a person by how he or she wants to be seen not how we want to see them.
5. It means I am allowed to say “This is my wife” not “this is my partner or significant other.”
6. It means being married in our house of worship not form a union in a building of court.
7. It means sharing the same identity with my wife not because she is a female but because she is a person with whom has many traits that lets me know she is my wife without needing to look solely at gender.
8. It means putting an S with LGBTQIA
9. It means not being ignorant that sexuality is not a black and white affair. That sexuality is a blessing and a gift.
10. It means that because of our painful and/or unique experiences as a LGBTQIA community, we have the exotic privilege to shape sexuality and its definition beyond the walls of procreation
11. It means being comfortable with who we are inside and out
12. It means that we are honest with ourselves and how we see ourselves and with the person we love
13. It means having the mental and outward freedom to speak of our wives or husbands as a straight couple would their spouse
14. It means taking out the words “gay couple” and “straight couple” and just say couple.
15. It means marriage is not limited to people who can have children the “natural way.”
16. It means…
I can go on.
Homosexuality is a misused and misunderstood word. Taking out religion, if we accept and respect everyone, then we would have to accept and respect how people define and identify themselves not how we choose to define them.
Many people want peace. There are only a few I know who rather say tolerance. Yet all say they love the LGBTQ community just not what they do.
If you love us, you have to love everything that makes us who we are as people. You have to love who we love because that love is a part of us. You have to accept how we love because that action given appropriate means and intentions is a part of us.
If you cannot do this, just be blunt and call it tolerance.
My new RF catch phrase: “tolerance is not in the definition of peace.”
Nam.
Homosexuality is an spiritual, physical, mental, affectionate unconditional and conditional love and attraction to individuals of the same gender.
1. It means being able to walk with my girlfriend hand in hand at the mall or skate with her during the slow “partner” songs without the instructions of “male/female couples only.”
2. It means hoping that people define us by who we are as people and not just what is between our legs.
3. It means understanding the difference between homosexual lifestyle/action and homosexual identity/who a person is.
4. It means identifying a person by how he or she wants to be seen not how we want to see them.
5. It means I am allowed to say “This is my wife” not “this is my partner or significant other.”
6. It means being married in our house of worship not form a union in a building of court.
7. It means sharing the same identity with my wife not because she is a female but because she is a person with whom has many traits that lets me know she is my wife without needing to look solely at gender.
8. It means putting an S with LGBTQIA
9. It means not being ignorant that sexuality is not a black and white affair. That sexuality is a blessing and a gift.
10. It means that because of our painful and/or unique experiences as a LGBTQIA community, we have the exotic privilege to shape sexuality and its definition beyond the walls of procreation
11. It means being comfortable with who we are inside and out
12. It means that we are honest with ourselves and how we see ourselves and with the person we love
13. It means having the mental and outward freedom to speak of our wives or husbands as a straight couple would their spouse
14. It means taking out the words “gay couple” and “straight couple” and just say couple.
15. It means marriage is not limited to people who can have children the “natural way.”
16. It means…
I can go on.
Homosexuality is a misused and misunderstood word. Taking out religion, if we accept and respect everyone, then we would have to accept and respect how people define and identify themselves not how we choose to define them.
Many people want peace. There are only a few I know who rather say tolerance. Yet all say they love the LGBTQ community just not what they do.
If you love us, you have to love everything that makes us who we are as people. You have to love who we love because that love is a part of us. You have to accept how we love because that action given appropriate means and intentions is a part of us.
If you cannot do this, just be blunt and call it tolerance.
My new RF catch phrase: “tolerance is not in the definition of peace.”
Nam.