Sentences with phrase «as lesbians in»

There are possibilities that you might encounter gays as well as lesbians in an American dating site.

During one homecoming weekend, the group held a concert featuring Jennifer Knapp, a former contemporary Christian Music musician who came out as a lesbian in 2010.

Lambert grew up Mormon, endured a series of husbands in the effort to live up to her religion's expectations and came out as a lesbian in her 30s.

And though de Rossi would spend the ensuing decade starring on other shows, like Nip / Tuck and Better Off Ted, the power of Arrested Development's fanbase would bring it back after a decade, as the entire cast announced in 2012 that they would reunite for a new season of the show, released directly on Netfix.De Rossi came out as a lesbian in 2005.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

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.

According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.

Wynne came out as a lesbian at age 37 and in 2005 married Jane Rounthwaite, whom she'd first met in university about 30 years prior.

«If I was a woman in Russia I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly,» he said.

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage ActIn 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Actin the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

As an openly lesbian woman working for a men's professional basketball team, I'm humbled to share a unique coming out story right here in the pages of this magazine so aptly titled «Clarity.»

While working as a laborer in this program of infrastructure development, Saeed becomes pious and joins a social justice mosque; Nadia becomes a lesbian and moves to Mykonos.

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

I hope that in time, the church will catch up and be truly inclusive of those who identify as lesbian or gay — and not just as church attenders, but genuinely as part of the life and activities of the church.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

As a lesbian, I have come up against this repeatedly... in the past.

The change has been dramatic, with gay and lesbian reporters identifying themselves as such in news columns and making no apology for the slant of their stories.

Brunne is described as the «first openly lesbian bishop in the world,» living «in a registered homosexual partnership» — with another lesbian priest — and «has received a church blessing» for it.

One suggestion recommends, «not using phrases such as «gay», «lesbian» or «homosexual» to define a person's identity,» in order to «take every aspect of the person into consideration.»

There are equal number of male and female in this country, minus off gays and lesbians, each man can only have a woman as wife, if not, there'll be not enough women to go around.

He is also frustrated with the church's is left wing, which he thinks has been engrossed in personal issues such as the ordination of gays and lesbians, and has abandoned its former emphasis on economic issues.

Gay and lesbian couples should be supported in their role as parents, whether their children come from previous heterosexual relationships, adoption or artificial insemination.

There has been more blood shed in the name of religion, not to mention the hatred that continues today for gay's and lesbians who did nothing more than be born into this world as they are.

In googling this further, we find that the break - up rate for couples is just as high or higher for lesbian relationships as compared to gay relationships.

This means, essentially, that if a woman announces herself to be a lesbian, this means that she must be deemed to have been conceived that way by the proper, ordered processes of nature in such a way as to want to be sexually intimate with other women.

And at Connecticut's Fairfield University, scholars, clergy, and lay Catholics recently discussed the implications for the church of having many gay and lesbian people, both in and out of the closet, in roles as priests and ministers.

I've been in conversations with progressives that are every bit as judgmental and prideful as those of fundamentalists — only the targets are not democrats, gays and lesbians, and the poor; they are Republicans, «homophobes», and the rich.

[12] This link has been encouraged by some groups as one which should be made with school children, for example see www.schools-out.org.uk/teachingpack/awholeschoolissue.htm which encourages schools to have «inclusions of oppression of gays and lesbians when looking at the Holocaust in history.»

The myth that gay and lesbian people are child molesters often goes unchallenged when spread from the pulpit, and in the 80s and 90s, many Christians refused to support efforts to curb the HIV / AIDS crisis as they believed it to be a «curse from God» that gay people deserved.

This post was stirred up by my friend Heather of the EO's letter to her lesbian non-Christian friend, and her friend, Vikki's, gracious letter in return, as well as the responses and repostings I've witnessed.

As I've made it clear in the past, I support marriage equality and affirm my gay and lesbian friends who want to commit themselves to another person for life.

(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.)

The APA states despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience.

The Christian community now possesses for the first time some excellent scholarly works on the treatment of homosexuality in Scripture, such as Robin Scroggs's The New Testament and Homosexuality (Fortress, 1984) and George Edwards's Gay / Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical Perspective (Pilgrim, 1984).

And, above all else, there was new evidence coming from the collective experience of lesbians and homosexuals who as committed Christians were seeking to live their lives in conformity with Christian faith and Christian values.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

I argued that the love between two lesbians or two homosexuals, assuming that it is a constructive human love, is not sinful nor does it alienate the lovers from God's plan, but can be a holy love, mediating God's presence in the human community as effectively as heterosexual love.

You're right, Your Answer, what should not matter is whether it was a «couple» having the children as much as the fact that they (gays and lesbians) chose to have them in the first place by whatever means.

The idea that individual identity should be subordinated to communal identity is viewed as intolerably oppressive — except, it seems, in the case of the «loving gay and lesbian support community.»

Lesbian communities, because of their marginal status, are removed from patriarchy and may act as pioneers in the dis - covering of female friendship.

And I am a lesbian — a woman who has come out of the heterosexual box and into another box, which, as boxes go, is far superior for my life as a responsible person, a Christian woman, in this world at this time.

As a friend of Baker's summarizes in a PBS documentary, the rainbow flag «eclipsed any other uses of the rainbow and everybody now, really, connects that to the gay and lesbian movement.»

But, over the years, the congregation did, in fact, become more diverse, and by the time I had been there for 12 years, there were maybe 50 gay and lesbian persons, there were about 30 Hispanic individuals, there were a number of African Americans and African natives, and there was other diversity as well; and we talked a lot about how pleased we were that this was all happening.

While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.

In November 1992, the voters of Colorado, in a referendum, foreclosed to legislatures at all levels the authority to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, and gendeIn November 1992, the voters of Colorado, in a referendum, foreclosed to legislatures at all levels the authority to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, and gendein a referendum, foreclosed to legislatures at all levels the authority to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, and gender.

Is that the same thing as when those extremist say to gays and lesbians to not show signs of their lifestyles in public and to leave it at home?

We have Gay and Lesbian churches and Bishops and ministers in other denominations as well.

As an «out» lesbian Johnson's own activism has included national leadership roles in the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.

As far as your lesbian friends are concerned, they are in more need of the church than your «fat» friendAs far as your lesbian friends are concerned, they are in more need of the church than your «fat» friendas your lesbian friends are concerned, they are in more need of the church than your «fat» friends.

And perhaps this view, which until fairly recently was dominant in American culture and law, and which still exercises influence (in, for example, significant publications such as First Things), helps to explain why many gays and lesbians still, as Reno says, «feel put upon.»