Is there something wrong with being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender? - See
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There have been people in all cultures and times throughout human history who have identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Homosexuality is not an illness or a disorder, a fact that is agreed upon by both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association in 1974. Being transgender or gender variant is not a disorder either, although Gender Identity Dysphoria (GID) is still listed in the DSM of the American Psychiatric Association. Being LGBT is as much a human variation as being left-handed - a person's sexual orientation and gender identity are just another piece of who they are. There is nothing wrong with being LGBT - in fact, there's a lot to celebrate.
Discriminatory laws, policies and attitudes that persist in our schools, workplaces, places of worship and larger communities, however, are wrong and hurt LGBT people and their loved ones. PFLAG works to make sure that LGBT people have full civil rights and can live openly, free from discrimination and violence. - See more at: http://community.pflag.org/page.aspx?pid=290#sthash.LKLUekOW.dpuf
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Actually, no. See "The Creation of Heterosexuality," an eye-opening book. Heterosexual and Homosexual are modern terms for modern categories and distinctions that did not always have any meaning at all, back when people did what they did without insisting on slapping some limiting label on their portion of the vast array of human activities our flesh is heir to. And for that matter, "heterosexual" and "homosexual" are not just recent terms that come from discussions of pathology, they have actually reversed their meaning since they were introduced and now mean the opposite of what they originally did.
Socrates had his wife, Xantippe, but at least well into the Middle Ages, love and marriage had nothing to do with each other, had more to do with politics and finance and convenience than they did romance or lust, and "true love" was found elsewhere, if at all. It was not until the Goliards in France began mythologizing heterosexual love. Similarly, the idea that marriage was always and only between "one man and one woman" is plainly and directly refuted by the text of the Wholly Babble itself, where the love of David for Jonathan was beyond the love of women, and not condemned. Nor are the sins of Sodom what are popularized by the bigots who claim their god hates all the same people they do. Check out what the Main Character has to say about the sins of Sodom and not the lack of sexual content from Someone who is presumed to know.
While the begetting of offspring may have been the social norm at famous times in the past, or at least socially encouraged, whoever a man wanted to inseminate for pleasure or practice was another matter. Ancient Middle Eastern proverb from the days before manufactured hand-held fapping devices: A woman for duty, a boy for pleasure, but a melon for ecstasy. Portnoy famously raped some warm liver, and in movie we have seen a horny youth have sex in the kitchen with a baked pie, which at least avoids the problem of sticky gel-like strings of man goo stuck in your hair and confused with conditioner. To cite another recent motion picture from the Hollywood wet dream factory. What these surrogates all are, from melon to trademarked insertion object, are substitutes for hands, the source of most men's greatest amount of sexual pleasure, if not the greatest pleasure in and of itself.
The uninhibited, uncorrupted natural man takes his pleasure where he finds it and celebrates his ability to do so and to share that pleasure with others who willingly consent, and to hell with the limitations and artificial restrictions of labels. Old hippie lore: "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with," etc. We all work out accommodations for our innate drives. What the hell difference does it make where you put your dick? That is not a question about time, place, or manner, but where you put it. The rest, as the rabbi said, is commentary.
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Being LGBT is as much a human variation as being left-.
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