Sexual Orientation

Relationships are no longer categorized into just heterosexual or homosexual – now, we have a spectrum of connections.

Despite lowering numbers in straight youth, two studies show that teens and young adults that aren’t straight are still more likely to attempt suicide.

Her manager would come up behind when she was at the cash register and whisper: “Do you like that woman?”

76% of those surveyed weren’t able to accurately define asexuality, even with 53% of those asked confidently saying they could.

The sexual orientation binary continues to weaken, as young people embrace fluidity and bisexuality at higher rates.

Under orders from Trump officials, the 2020 Census will exclude questions about sexual orientation and gender, basically erasing LGBTQ Americans.

Many people treat asexuality, in general, the same way they do bisexuality — like it’s just a phase, or a joke, or some sort of character flaw.

PSU students can now choose from nine gender options and nine different sexual orientations. Choices include non-binary, agender, pansexual, asexual, and queer, among others.

The appointment is expected to “bring much-needed attention to human rights violations against LGBT people in all regions of the world.”

“Very simply, it moves a behavior that belongs in the closet back in the closet.”

In more than 70 countries around the world, same-sex activity or relationships are still criminalized.

The lawsuit was settled for more than $200,000.

The school says Christian scholars should be “allowed to filter material through a biblical worldview.”

The Carmel City Council defeated efforts by social conservatives to block the measure.

A new Gallup poll released Wednesday finds that, for the first time, a majority of Americans say same-sex orientation is something gays and lesbians are born with, rather than something that is determined by their upbringing or environment.

Recently, Jim Garlow, pastor of the Skyline Church, an evangelical Christian megachurch located in La Mesa, Calif., sat down with theologian and author Wayne Grudem for an hour-long discussion on “Biblical Issues for This Election” that was based on a document (pdf) Grudem put together comparing the positions of the Democratic and Republican parties.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Researchers at Cornell University believe that sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation when watching persons whom participants found attractive, according to a study published Aug. 3 in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.

Anti-gay activists have long argued that gay people do not need protection from discrimination because they can hide their identity. Anti-gay activist Janet Boynes succinctly made this point in her book, Called Out: “The difference between black skin and homosexuality is that black skin is a physical characteristic while homosexuality is a behavior.”

The parroting purveyors of pious propaganda cannot claim that they weren’t warned; that if they continued to oppress reality their religious view would be openly challenged until becoming obvious that theirs is an insanity based on completely uncorroborated myths. It can hardly be denied that human beings want, even need, something to believe in, but must that be delusional? Couldn’t it be as real as life itself; something that fills the void in the human spirit and yet we overlook it because it is so obvious that we continually miss its reality…the fact which makes us alive, makes life worth living, and creates life?

Cynthia Nixon recently told the New York Times that she chose to be gay. Her statement was clumsy, irresponsible, inaccurate, and lent itself to exploitation by anti-gay activists.