Likoudis continues as follows: "After the Mass, Elsie Miranda, of Coral Gables, Fla., a lesbian and a conference speaker from the Archdiocese of Miami, told reporter Peter Smith of Louisville's Courier-Journal, "We're voices that challenge, and we are the voice of God....It's so important not to be silenced."
* "Seminary rectors, formation teams, vocation directors, priests' personnel directors, vicars for religious, [must] provide educational and personal/spiritual development programs for gay/lesbian priests, religious, seminarians, and candidates....All clergy and religious, regardless of orientation, need to be educated and sensitized to the gifts and needs of their lesbian and gay peers."
For it is Stein's original and central contention that lesbians and gay men, together and apart, have been on the cutting edge of the key 20th century changes in relations between men and women that have seen the move from a primarily homosocial to an heterosocial culture between men and women.
Eager to find evidence of continuing co-operation, I think he is here far too uncritical of the turn to vicious warring among some gay men and lesbians that was wrought, especially by second-wave feminism.
Besides scattered trailer park and prefabricated home retirement communities, there don't appear to be many gay and lesbian retirement communities--or facilities for that matter--other than the Palms.
"Research presented in the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Outing Age report suggests that there could have been 2.8 million gay men and lesbians age 65 and older in the United States in 1999.
Thirty-nine percent of heterosexuals, 36% of
lesbians and 23% of bisexuals perceived that they had no risk of HIV infection.
There was a slight variance in response with regard to having a gay son versus a
lesbian daughter; eleven versus eight felt a greater sense of failure if their son were gay.
1950) made contributions to black
lesbian and black women's literature that have been singular.
In some states such as Florida, however, gay and
lesbian couples are not allowed to adopt at all, although currently this is being challenged in court (Liptak 2003).
In the past several years, the emergence of an identifiable
lesbian and gay culture in most medium-to-large metropolitan areas in the United States has dispelled the long-held negative stereotypes of gay men as effeminate and
lesbian women as overly masculine (Barret & Logan, 2001; Pope, 1995c; Pope & Barret, 2002).
Transmission of common viral STIs, especially human papillomavirus (HPV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections and of Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, requires only skin-to-skin or mucosa contact, which can easily occur in the context of
lesbian sex.
Many gay and
lesbian Catholics--and their families--say they find it confusing to be told their sexual orientation may be God-given, but that God doesn't want them to act on it.
According to the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), estimates of the total number of children with at least one gay or
lesbian parent range from six million to fourteen million.
The politics of visibility have long structured
lesbian and gay social movements.
