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Wow, REALLY? I'm gay, and I didn't even know that! It's not a term *I* use much at all to refer to transsexuals, etc... but I didn't realize that it was offensive. Could it, perhaps, be offensive in the UK, but not here in the States?

You can ask, but it would be inappropriate for the moderators to tell you. Just as if you were banned, it would be inappropriate for the rest of us to know why, even if we might THINK we know. As for my score: 14/16 It was tough, though... some of those "gals" looked QUITE convincing...

Well, you're obviously baiting, but I'll go ahead and bite. :) What kind of pride are we supposed to have for a man who ruined the lives of his family, which he created under false pretenses? Whatever a person's sexuality, I have little respect for someone who doesn't honor the oaths that...

Probably because that's not what the banner, nor the president's speech was about that day. Here's the text of his speech that day

Perhaps your definitions of "melting" are different. It sounds like you're thinking about an ice cube melting in the microwave. Rockdrummer refers to how heat can damage the structural integrity of metal to the degree that it becomes malleable. Kind of like how swords were made, back in...

Wasn't it revealed that that woman planted the finger in the chili HERSELF? Per this report, an excerpt:

As someone with several friends in "the industry" (whether actually working for an adoption agency, or working for social services in a major metropolitan area), I can tell you that's the exception, and not the rule. There's this little category called "Hard to Place Children" which most of the...

You're right, Reba. White, "healthy" BABIES placed up for adoption are typically scooped up right away. The waiting lists for those children are HUGE. I don't know that I'd agree that all of the older children in the adoption system are there for JUST the reasons you mentioned, although you...

Please send that message to people like Jerry Falwell, Pat Roberts, etc. There were, after all, the ones who said that the 9/11 attacks were God's punishment for our nation's acceptance of homosexuality. One of them also said that New Orleans was hit by Katrina because it was a city consumed...

And, sadly, the fourth choice: unwanted, forgotten, unadopted children. Or children that bounce from one foster family to another. I don't think there's an easy answer to this debate. For myself, I suppose in some ways, I'm both pro-choice and pro-life... insomuch as while I support a...

Well, first off, that's an assumption. Maybe the hearing person can't understand the signed conversation, maybe they can. Maybe the deaf person can read the lips of the hearing conversants, maybe they can't. The bottom line is, for many people, it's simply rude to stare, in and of itself...

Absolutely correct. As a matter of fact, over the course of the last 30 years or so, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), which writes, maintains and revises the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (now on it's 4th edition, the DSM-IV-TR) removed homosexuality as a...

Sadly, you don't have to look very far on this very forum to see examples of some members of one oppressed minority not having an appreciation of a similar struggle experienced by members of another oppressed minority. That was probably my #1 wake-up call when I came to All Deaf... for some...

That's an interesting take, PuyoPiyo. By that definition, I know a lot of guys who are in "lust" with women, and in "love" with their male friends... but I'm not so sure they'd classify themselves as gay, or even bi. Even looking at it from the other angle... I've been in love with a woman's...

You're going to lecture me about ignorance? That's rich! I've got a newsflash for you, Yiffy: gay and lesbian people have been around for a LONG, LONG time. And guess what? The world hasn't come to a standstill. What DOES have a dire effect on society as a whole is the kind of...

I've previously addressed this topic, although I think it was AFTER the post that you were responding to here. Hopefully, I made my point there. To recap, as individual American citizens, I believe that Christians have all those same rights as everyone else. It is when a public official uses...

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Your post spoke in volumes about three things: fear, shame, and repressed sexuality. Straight men feel threatened because every bathroom they go in, gay men are going to look at them lustfully? Are you kidding me? When I go to the restroom, I am there to take a crap, take a piss, or wash my...

Gay male parents get dedicated fertility program - CNN.com (The article is copyrighted, and I didn't feel comfortable cutting and pasting the contents here.)

Speaking for myself: Maybe a little, not too much, though. Mostly, my curiosity about the opposite sex had more to do with what it would be like to BE a woman... socially, psychologically, sexually, etc. I've also wondered what it would be like to be pregnant... I'm in awe of the ability to...