Sentences with phrase «openly gay person»

What really makes him stand out is that he has a specific goal in mind for his future: he wants to serve in the military, just like his beloved father, and his family and friends recognize that this might be more complicated for an openly gay person than it would be for, say, Archie or Betty.

I thought of that earlier this year when I reviewed a biography by Amy Houts of TV personality Rachel Maddow (Rachel Maddow: Primetime Political Commentator), whose life as an out lesbian — I noted in the review — has been distinguished by a number of «firsts»: she was one of only two openly gay students in her freshman class at Stanford; the first openly gay recipient of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship; and the first openly gay person to host a prime - time news show on TV — a terrific role model, in short, for LGBTQ kids, who, historically, have had too few such in books to read.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

However is was Sean Penn who took home the hardware for his role in the movie Milk as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California.

This biopic starring Sean Penn tells the story of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist who became the first openly gay person elected to public office in California and who was assassinated in 1978.

Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by New York State Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, a Democrat representing the 69th district and the first openly gay person to serve in the Assembly.

And if elected to the seat, she would become the first openly gay person to serve on the Board.

And, if successful, Healey will become the nation's first openly gay person elected as a state attorney general.

The DOMA decision has great personal significance for Quinn, who is aiming to be not only the first woman mayor of New York, but also the first openly gay person to hold that position.

Feinman is poised to be the first openly gay person to serve on the Court of Appeals, pending confirmation by the state Senate.

As an openly gay person, I find that attitude absolutely appalling.

Given the country's moral censorship, I had never met an openly gay person in real life, via books, or on television.

Societyvs asked: As for Fishon, he thinks being gay is a sin... I wonder if he would allow an openly gay person to teach Sunday school or even lead service once in a while?

Openly gay people are therefore promoted on merit every bit as much as everyone else.

There are few women in significant leadership roles and few openly gay people.

I'm sure, he says, that Rusty Reno knows as well as anyone that almost no gay people (certainly no openly gay people, or at least none that I can think of)....

Younger voters don't understand the fuss about gay marriage (most know openly gay people), and the whole «elitism» argument that the GOP has used recently is so stupid and divisive that even many Republicans are shaking their heads.

Mr. Sprigg has claimed that gay men are more likely to engage in child sexual abuse and that allowing openly gay people in the military would «increase the already serious problem of homosexual assault in the military.»

[18][19] This easter egg references the United States policy «Don't ask, don't tell», which prevented openly gay people from serving in the United States Armed Forces.

That July, the LGBTQ community was once again threatened following Clinton's «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» policy, which barred openly gay people from the military.

Not exact matches

We can, however, judge a person as not being in communion with the Church when they are publicly advocating abortions or involved in an continuing openly gay relationship.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

As for myself, I openly accept gay people as is — and if they want to discuss some of their personal problems with me — I am game for the convo... and vice versa.

I am sure that if there were people that were openly gay when Jesus was around then Jesus loved them very much.

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

Several denominations within the body of Christ do openly accept gay people.

I think it's great that Wendy is willing to listen to us and even openly question things on her blog, but that doesn't negate the damage done by Bridge the Gap and New Direction when they suggest that God is not pleased with the love that one gay person has for another.

And regardless of what anybody says, the only reason people discriminate openly against gay people this way is because of religion.

I'd like to see him being compassionate to an «openly» gay person.

The only difference was that in this church, gay people were free to attend openly, without one plea except that Christ had died for them.

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.

Perhaps Anne and others with more open minds in reference to social issues should check out the UCC — a demonimation that ordained the first woman in the 1800s, ordained the first black person in the US, and has been ordaining openly gay / lesbian / transgender persons for over 30 years.

While being openly gay can be hard, it becomes even more difficult when one is forced to portray other people's ideals of masculinity.

Then I read a piece for our paper by rugby player Gareth Thomas, one of the few gay people in any sport to have come out (there is still no openly gay footballer in the English or Scottish professional game).

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.

On December 22, 2010, Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, which fulfilled a key promise made in the 2008 presidential campaign [214][215] to end the Don't ask, don't tell policy of 1993 that had prevented gay and lesbian people from serving openly in the United States Armed Forces.

Labour's first openly gay female MP calls on party to increase number of BAME and LGBT people in influential positions

St. John is a former Albany Common Council member (trivia: when he was elected in November 1989, he became the first openly gay black person to hold public office in the US).

California: Carl DeMaio (pictured) is the second person vying to become the first openly gay Republican elected to Congress, but his effort has been lost traction — first, by failing to win the support of the LGBT community, and, second, by being waylaid by a former campaign aide's claim that DeMaio sexually harassed him.

Mr Herbert, the openly gay shadow environment secretary, declared that he was «living proof» the party had changed and that the battleground had moved: «Gay people are not the property of the Labour Party,» he declargay shadow environment secretary, declared that he was «living proof» the party had changed and that the battleground had moved: «Gay people are not the property of the Labour Party,» he declarGay people are not the property of the Labour Party,» he declared.

LGBT people are also allowed to serve openly in police and, in 1990, the Lesbian and Gay Police Association (LAGPA), now the Gay Police Association (GPA), was founded.

A full 78 percent of respondents said that «people who are openly gay or homosexual» should be able to serve in the armed forces.

New York's first openly gay state legislator says it's time to appoint an LGBT person to the state's highest court.

Sen. Tom Duane, who made history in 1998 as the first openly gay individual elected to the state Senate and the first HIV - positive person elected to office in the nation, has decided not to seek re-election.

When new City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive person to hold the powerful position, unveiled his leadership team and Council committee assignments, he appointed two anti-LGBT Council members to chair committees, and named one to senior leadership in the 51 - member legislative body.

85 per cent of UK participants (including those describing themselves as heterosexual) believe an openly gay, lesbian or bisexual person would not be very safe as a spectator at a sporting event.

A true twentieth - century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

«When Another Country was published — at the very peak of Baldwin's public stature as a civil rights activist — it was taken as a document of a very small slice of the present: the Greenwich Village and Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where interracial couples and gay people were able to live openly, mostly but not entirely out of the omnipresent shadow of violence.

When one who comes to meet her at an underground gay bar is openly hostile to the crowd — it's not just elitism but Muslim law that separates gay and transgender people — Sahar's gay cousin Ali intervenes.

They are narrower in that nothing in that TWU covenants prohibits a TWU student from being openly gay — indeed, I understand that TWU has had a number of openly gay students in recent years, and the provisions of the covenant prohibiting prejudicial language and mandating that one «treat all persons with respect and dignity, and uphold their God - given worth from conception to death» would tend to serve to protect gay students from the prejudice one might find on more secular campuses (and who are we kidding, anti-gay prejudice exists in secular universities).