Sentences with phrase «as gay member»

One of his breakthrough roles came as a gay member of a porno film crew in «Boogie Nights,» one of several movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that he would eventually appear in.

However, we all know someone currently serving in the military as a GAY member.

Not exact matches

I'm a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA), the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), and I've served for several years as a judge for the Critics Award at the New York Television Festival.

They took into account how many new members of the LGBT community moved into each city in 2015, as well as how many «winks» were sent between gay and lesbian matches.

Blacks alongside gays, alongside Hispanics, alongside the poor and the middleclass??? Shouldn't we all band together in a common cause - to be recognized and accepted, for equal rights for all members of our society??? Shouldn't the 99 % be the voice of this country - as opposed to the oppressive 1 %??? I think we should all band together - pushing for a common cause, and making America the true beacon of what a Modern society looks like!

I am sure they asked the gay members of their association before they put the flag on the billboards... I find this as a reason to take down the billboards disingenuous.

The irony here is that this bill would have actually increased attacks upon religion, as many gays and lesbians, as well as their supporters and those who are not biased towards them, are actually also members of churches, albeit more liberal ones.

But that's not going to happen as long as pundits, politicians and pastors preach hatred for minorities, non-christians, gays and members of other political parties.

Under these beliefs, members of the lesbian, gay and transgender community could be practicing Mormons as long as they are celibate.

The New York Times noted that the bishops have an «idea» that religious Americans are «the victims of government - backed persecution», while painting their decision to eliminate adoption services as slamming the door in the face of the loving members of the gay community.

Most churches DO accept gays as part of their congretation and love and care for them as they would any member.

And it tells us, finally, that everyone's most basic identity is not as single, married or divorced; as gay or straight; as member of this or that family or household — but as son or daughter of God, made in his image, destined for his household, and for the glory of his kingdom.

Hell, two of my fellow choir members disowned a family member who came out of the closet as gay.

(Using the lowercase «c» with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

I don't understand why gay men and women would even want to be part of an organization that clearly doesn't accept them as they are... they must forgo intimate relationships to be members of this church?

«This can arise from ambivalence or guilt about ways they have handled family members who have come out as gay, as well as their own sexualities.

The Washington Post described this ward as consisting of mostly Democrats, half who are nonwhite (including plenty of Spanish speakers), and having openly gay members in its leadership.

The gay rights community should reject members of their community that promote h - om - ose - xua - lity as deviant behavior, such as NAMBLA's participation in the gay pride parade for example.

Some members of the group were eager to challenge the idea that it was possible for someone to identify as both Christian and gay.

Someone goes to a Courage group, says «I'm gay and celibate,» and gets immediate push - back, with other members of the group insisting that you should not «identify as gay.»

«Ex-gay movement members, like other conservative Christians, view themselves as part of a positive transformation of American culture and religious life, often describing themselves as embattled or besieged by secular culture or the gay rights movement.

The above provincial is very displeased, however, by a member of the province who «outed» himself as gay in the Detroit Free Press.

Because of Abortion and Gay marriage we may elect a President who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints members of which are commonly known as Mormons or LDS (Latter - day Saint).

We stand behind the concept og gays being fully members of society wiithout being looked down upon as wrong or deviants, which they are not.

I have several gay family members, but I have no problem with people who's beliefs are different (as long as they are not discriminating against others) I also know several openly gay / lesbians that work for Chick - fil - A and have felt very comfortable there, at least until others started causing an uproar.

When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a child • kill gays, children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad

The Newcastle manager never uttered the grossly inappropriate words «miss me with that gay shit» when a member of the press core suggested he might try a salad or bean based diet instead, as he wolfed down fistfuls of deep fried chicken and washed it down with Newcastle Brown Ale.

Since President Obama announced that he was including Caitlin as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Closing Ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, the media's focus has seemed to be on the fact that, along with former tennis great and founder of the Women's Sports Foundation, Billie Jean King, Caitlin was somehow picked because she is openly gay, not because she won a bronze and silver medal in women's ice hockey at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics and is an outstanding young woman.

I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have,» she said.

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schooGay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schoogay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the nation's leading pediatric authority with 57,000 members, says that children who grow up with gay and / or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as children with straight parents.

Plot: The film follows the life and assignation of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the 1970s.

Bala, best known as a member of defunct gay trio 3Sum, in 2012 underwent an operation to remove piles.

Sen. Tom Duane, a Manhattan Democrat who was the first openly gay and (as far as I know) only HIV - positive member of the Senate, has thrown his support to his colleague, Sen. Eric Schneiderman, calling him «a true reformer and a tireless advocate for all New Yorkers.»

The mayor pledged in September 2009 (at the height of the mayor's race he eventually won, running on the GOP and Independence lines) to push members of the Senate Republican conference, which he had long bankrolled as its largest individual contributor, to vote «yes» on gay marriage.

She was AGAINST gay marriage as a member of the House, FOR gay marriage the day she was appointed to the Senate.

She served as a legislative aide in his office after he was elected in 2008 as the third sitting openly gay member of Congress and the first non-incumbent openly gay man to be elected to serve on Capitol Hill).

Two other Council members, both of them gay, Daniel Dromm of Jackson Heights and Corey Johnson from Greenwich Village, also addressed the gathering, as did Park Slope State Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon.

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well -LSB-...]

But other gay rights advocates, led by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and Human Rights Campaign, and members of Congress like Rep. Patrick Murphy have argued that a legislative repeal should be the primary goal, as an executive order could be reversed by a new president.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who had pushed for an end to the «don't ask, don't tell» policy barring gay people from serving openly, knocked the decision as «an insult» to service members.

The bill, as you may recall, is being carried by Sen. Tom Duane, a Manhattan Democrat who is the Senate's only openly gay member and also the only member of the Legislature (to my knowledge, anyway) who is living with HIV.

«The presence of these two capable, community - oriented, active councilmen has shown that gay legislators will do a good job of representing their constituents across the board, which in turn reinforces the idea of gay people as members of the community,» Queens College political science professor Michael Krasner said in an e-mail.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney offered an early endorsement to Quinn in March, as did Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the only gay member of the state's congresstional delegation.

After Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson made clear he would not support gay marriage - adding his dissent to indications of opposition from defence secretary Philip Hammond and children's minister Tim Loughton - Downing Street accepted the free vote would apply to members of the government as well as backbench MPs.

Walzak is a political veteran who has served as a senior aide on the 2012 Senate campaign of Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the first woman to represent the state in the Senate and as the first openly gay member.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who made history this January when he was sworn in as New York's first openly gay member of Congress, is endorsing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor.

The speakership was historically held by white men, until 2006, when Christine Quinn became the first woman and first gay member to serve as leader.

NEW YORK (CNN)- As she lobbies members of the New York Senate these days, the politician in Christine Quinn can understand what the gay rights activist in her sometimes can not.