TheGrandOnion

I used to f'n LOVE that show, especially the excuses the guys gave as to why they were there to meet a 13 year old kid....late at night....while bringing along beer & condoms.

A really cool, close friend of mine has been going thru a bit of a spiritual crisis. Lately, though, she's found spiritual comfort in biblical script & modern Christian writings. That's all fine, I gather, because I suppose we're all looking for inner peace.

However, this new found guidance has also caused her some new inner conflict because she's gay and, as she's discovered, "the Bible says homosexuality is wrong". So now she's torn about being true to her new found faith & true to what her heart tells her.

Personally, though I'm straight, I don't agree with that schtick about homosexuality being wrong. As a counter, I could point to Biblical passages that would make the average person do a double take & let out a "What the..??? That's not right!!" but I don't want to stomp all over a general belief that's bringing her comfort.

So I'm curious to know from any of the glbt community, with strong beliefs in Christianity, as to how you accomodate what you are with a faith whose majority of followers would condemn you for being gay?

I told my friend God loves her, and designed her the way she is; and that she's not alone in going through this. Your thoughts?

I'm curious about this. This past weekend one of my best friends & I went to what was billed as a family-friendly "Gay Pride" festival. It wasn't a parade, but a festival at a city park. Anyway, she's les & I'm straight. Since neither of us had ever been to one of these things & she wanted to go because a les friend's band would be playing at the festival, we went. I met her friends & they all turned out to be gay too. Overall to look at all of 'em, guy or gal, they didn't look stereotypically 'gay'. Flat out, they looked just like anybody you'd see anywhere & were a cool crew!

While the band was busy setting up, though, the MC's who were to announce them got up on stage to make small talk over the mike til the band was good to go. The 2 MCs were flamboyantly gay crossdressers who immediately started going after the band, asking over the mike if the guys were 'tops' or 'bottoms' & referring to the lone les in the band as the 'lesbo on guitar'. She held her own against these 2 but you could tell her 2 guy bandmates wanted to just crawl under a rock as these 2 crossdressing guys are hammering away at 'em with questions like whether they preferred to give or receive? Off stage, my friend & I are watching all this, with her annoyingly shaking her head. Her friend's girlfriend is with us, mortified that they'd go after her from the stage when they ask her girlfriend if she's seeing anyone & who.

So I have to ask: have you, as a gay person, ever been seriously embarrased by other gays at these 'pride' events?

Don't get me wrong, I've have some 'fabulously flamboyant' friends too, lol. Still, while I was ready to comedically go one on one with these 2 queens when they got off stage to interact with spectators, my friend & her friend's girlfriend were ready to run to the hills rather than have their orientation made into a punchline by a couple o' queens. Not exactly a very pride enducing moment.