Love

Corporations make billions from romantic love on Valentine’s Day, but people valued non-romantic relationships even in Biblical times.

“Saying YES to marriage in 2023.”

A New York baker stepped in when another cake-maker backed out at the last minute.

For teens through college freshmen, LGBTQ students show significant higher risks for suicidal thoughts and actions

The music video by actor, singer and activist Rizi has gone viral with more than 1 million views.

The unlikely couple announced they were dating last November, shortly after Melton and Wambach ended their marriages, to a man and a woman, respectively.

Even though it’s everywhere we turn, together we can survive the straight sentimental onslaught.

“I made peace with God with it,” Cookie Johnson tells Oprah Winfrey. “So I’m good.”

It’s time for everyone to experience Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, for everyone to know they are beautiful just the way they are. It’s time for same-sex couples, same-sex parents, children of same-sex parents, and all LGBTQ persons at home, at school, in the workplace or in retirement to be protected by the laws of their lands. … It’s time to spread love. It’s time to change history.

No matter who gets elected in November – no matter who makes the laws – no matter what religious zealots say; there is no one on the face of this earth, or any other earth, who will ever be able to regulate with whom a person falls in love. … You cannot regulate love – no matter how hard you may try – you simply can’t tell people who to love.

It’s become easy to hate homosexuals in America, and in some instances, it’s become a part of the fabric of the organization. Political parties, churches, social organizations make billions of dollars on their “gay hate.” They can wrap it in any sort of bow they want, but hate is hate. Period. For some of us in the gay community, it takes a great deal of courage to still love and value ourselves as Americans…

Whatever one’s religion, it is but a thought, a belief, and should never be imposed on anyone else. That’s why we have separation of church and state. Believe what you want, but don’t establish what you believe as a means to enslave others to your belief. To do so is to impinge on the human rights of others to live in freedom. The freedom to love those who consent to love us and express that love sexually, is not a belief, it is a universal right…

What is it that makes prudes so mad about sex, especially about people enjoying sex? Why do so many think they have the right to define the limits of other people’s consensual sexual activities?

No one should be bullied to death; that is a cruel, vicious waste of life. No one should ever die feeling unloved; that is a human and universal tragedy. Everyone should have the freedom to love, and be loved. That is the greatest thing we will ever learn.

Realizing that affinity for life is what love is all about, is more than a thought, it is an observation of each individual’s life and ultimately their legacy; a legacy of participation in life that never stops evolving.