The Gay Thread

[Morrigoon]

But you can marry your ex-stepmother's brother

Try explaining to your kids that their aunt and uncle are also their cousins, or that their dad is also their step-uncle, or that Auntie is also ex-step-grandma...

Not that I'd know any Texas relatives that had done that

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Just found out that my great-grandmother married her own uncle. I guess when you live in Germany in 1908, you're 27 years old, and your father is about to die, you'd do anything to get married.

[BarTopDancer]

Was he uncle by marriage?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Nope.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

from The Advocate

Frankly, this seems more appropriate to post in the WTF thread. How fücking paranoid can you get...?

A Utah legislator introduced a bill Wednesday that would require all publicly funded programs, laws, and regulations, to ensure they exclude families headed by gay and lesbian couples.

Rep. LaVar Christensen writes in the bill's language that "marriage and family predate all governments and are supported by and consistent with the Laws of Nature and God, the Creator and Supreme Judge of the World, affirmed in the nation’s founding Declaration of Independence." It also says, "families anchored by both a father and a mother, fidelity within marriage, and enduring devotion to the covenants and responsibilities of marriage are the desired norm."

Brandie Balken, executive director of Equality Utah, told the Salt Lake City Tribune that the bill could be used to "create a filter for public agencies and a way to target laws, services and funding that currently help single Utahns or Utanhs with families that differ from Representative Christensen's."

[SzczerbiakManiac]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! It's two male homosexuals kissing... in the FRENCH way!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

[Kevy Baby]

Here's a question I have been meaning to ask. It has probably been covered ad naseum on the interwebs, but I am too lazy to look.

Why do the terms 'homosexual' and 'gay' predominantly refer to males since (unless I am mistaken) they are applicable to either gender? Conversely, female homosexuals are referred to as lesbians (the litany of slang terms aside), which is gender specific. Is there a non-slang term for male homosexuals - an equivalent to 'lesbian'?

I am being serious about this. And I hope I am not offending anyone by asking this question!

[Cynthia]

I am still on hot young men kissing . . .

[innerSpaceman]

Kevy, I've always wondered that myself. I think it's a bit retarded, since both girls and boys who are attracted to members of their own sex are gay. So I loathe the acronym LGBT, as I think it's redundant. (And don't get me started on LGBTQII - lordy!)


Perhaps "lesbian" is accepted because there is no male counterpart. Well, maybe "faggot," but you can see why that won't fly. But to paraphrase Rodney King, "can't we all just be gay?"

[JWBear]

"Homosexual" and "gay" do usually refer to both genders ("homosexual" especially). As to why there is no male equivalent to "lesbian", I truely do not know.