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Glossary of Terms: LGBTQ
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LGBTQ
Acronym for queer woman , gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. The Q generally stands for queer when LGBTQ organizations, leaders, and media use the acronym. In settings offering assist for youth, it can also stand for questioning. LGBT and LGBTQ+ are also used, with the + added in recognition of all non-straight, non-cisgender identities. (See Transgender Glossary ) Both are acceptable, as are other versions of thi
OK, so, you’re gay, and you want to discover a partner and eventually a husband; someone with whom to share your life. However, you just can’t seem to join the right guy or make the right connection. You keep coming up empty-handed, stymied in your efforts, no matter what you try. All of this talk of legalized marriage just seems to make things worse, adding pressure from friends, family, and even yourself.
You consider that maybe it’s just not possible for homosexual men to have long-term relationships. There must be some truth to the old joke: “What does a gay man take on a second date?” Response: “What second date?” You would be ready to throw in the towel, if it weren’t for your best comrade who met someone and is now in a happy relationship for the past two years—or that middle-aged couple who dwell in your building and who just celebrated 25 years together with a trip to Paris. So you end up wondering, “What’s the matter with me? What am I doing wrong?”
As an openly gay man with over 30 years of trial as a therapist, I have seen scores of single gay men sabotage their efforts to fin
Nearly all of our best and most important transformations are prompted by personal connections, when what was once theoretical becomes achingly personal and powerful enough to blast through our preconceived, long-held beliefs. It&#;s why, with fewer and fewer gay people staying in the closet, more and more of us are being transformed by those personal connections, to the extent that marriage equality is indeed commencing to look inevitable. If your heart is open to them, then it is necessarily unlock to marriage equality and justice. Such is the character of the personal connection.
When I was younger, I was an enthusiastic evangelical Christian (whereas nowadays I&#;m a mild-mannered, unassuming Episcopalian). I believed that homosexuality was wrong for the simple reason that people I loved and trusted told me it was wrong. One of my very best friends also believed what we were told; only for him, it was anything but theoretical.
I met Patrick in high academy when we were on the newspaper staff together and we later attended the same university. He was brilliant and funny and always k
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