In honor of Pride month in the US.

In honor of Pride month, I want to show some of the positives that have come from the LGBT community.
Please list authors, inventors, artists, quotes by, or about people who are homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, etc.


Did you know that America the beautiful was written by a lesbian?
"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.

http://www.gayheroes.com/bates.shtml

Katharine Lee Bates August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929

 

I am only attracted to other white people. Do not judge me, it's just my orientation
Perhaps you should add a "W" onto that LGBT so I can march with pride too...

 

I added the "etc" You can include yourself.
Do you have anything to add on the positives that people of orientations have added to society?

 

Tchaikovsky was also a self admitted bisexual. He wrote in letters of relationships with both men and women.

 

Florence Nightingale.

http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bion1/nighti01.html

 

Team GB sends congratulations from all shades of our integrated community . May America look to us for its example and inspiration .

 

That's very odd. You're listing women where it isn't even known that they're gay, just that they had close female friends. Why aren't you picking people who we're "out"?

 

Look at the time period that these women lived. Being out was not an option. I would consider living with a woman for 25 years, Writing love poems about them, and writing in letters that "I have never loved but one person with passion in my life, and that was her", to be pretty conclusive evidence.

 

Feminist hatred of men doesnt necessarily make them lesbians.

 

Way to be positive.
There is no proof that either of them had a hatred of men.

 

No proof they EVER had sexual relations doesnt stop you from labeling them lesbians.

 

You make it sound like such a bad thing

 

That's because you don't know what love is. You probably think King David was queer for Jonathan too.

 

You seem to think you know what being a lesbian is, what gives you this expertise?

 

I understand them better than they understand themselves, that's for sure.

The same thing that would free them from their delusion, if they dared to access it: God-given common sense.

 

/yawn

says you.

Common sense says love need not be bound to the opposite gender.

 

The separation of sexuality from procreation entails its freedom from heterosexuality and its emergence as an individual attribute, something individuals can develop, enjoy, change or project as part of their changing definition of the self. Sexuality becomes plastic because the self itself has broken the bounds of traditional institutional expectations and it is now free to constitute and reconstitute itself in a series of narratives answering to nothing else but the growing freedom of individuals to develop their potential
http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/work/GIDDENS.TXT

 

Yep. People really ought to know, by now.

 

In other words, you agree. got it

 

Yep. But you think its a good thing, I think its bad and is just a further erosion of the nuclear family. Our sexuality is evolving to mirror that of bonobo chimps where sex is frequent, with many different partners of both sexes and the care of offspring is purely the domain of the females. Then the saying, that "it takes a village to raise a child" will become more frequently true. Single women on government assistance and receiving aid for dependant children. Government Day care, Government Housing, government schooling. Children with higher rates of povery, juvenile delinquincy, HS dropouts, teen pregnancy and criminal conviction as an adult.

 

Can one of the mods close or delete this thread?

I intended to celebrate the contributions that have been made to society, but it is apparent that this will not stay on topic.

 

Yes ,funny how it ends up LGBTIQAPXYZ,as far as Gay and lesbian xculture is concerned ,it has never nor will ever exist ,except in the polluted imaginations of the post-modernist identity politics crowd.

it matters nothing to an artist,as to the effect of their sexualality as distinct from their "orientations" see the culture that dominates all others is MONEY CULTURE,Bourgeois culture and has done so for a good couple of centuries now.

Sexual orientation is totally irrelevent to aqrtistic expression as like everyone else there are certain historically determined stages and learning that all artists MUST participate ,eg ,the techniques of painting that all painters use are orientation netural.or are you saying that "Gay "and "Lesbian s',BTW I have never heard of a lesbian artist as in a artist from the greek island of lesbos being world famous,any way are you saying that because you are gay you are special or something???????

CULTURE is Human Inclusive always by definition without special people being recognised ,being homosexual dosen't make you different.In the way you precieve the world .not in itsself ,and if a 'gay" artist[what ever that means]thinks they are special or think differently then science says they are wrong.

homosexuals or bisexuals are no more or less preceptive or artistic then anyone else .Get a grip ,who you have sex with and how you have sex has nothing to do with ART!

there is no such thing as "gay culture 'its all human culture.Nothing special and nothing to celebrate.

One exception being "gay marriage'the culture of religious stupidity meets ,gay and lesbian insanity!

or men dressed in frocks at 10paces.

 

yes the horrors of the Nuclear family as the form of human organisation has a lot to answer for ,the communal or Homosapien form is the natural one ,not this capitialist nuclear family crap.WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF ALL THE SOCIAL ills you list ,its the form that is operating isn't it?"?????

 

Is GB ,Gay Bisexual? ,only one term describes human sexuality ,can you tell us which ,hint ,its not G.

As a B myself i wish to withdraw from the LGTIQAP debacle of stupidity!And its ANTI-SCIENCE ,Scientific thinking YES ,LGBT Never.

all human sexuality is contained with HBH,homosexual ,bisexual ,hetrosexual ,WE HUMANS of the scientific thinking variety need no other definitions .

everything else is personal choice not science.

 

Hey every one its Anti-Science pride month which fits right wing into the US political climate of god nuttery,LGBT pride just as stupid as any other form of religious faith thunkun.Look everyone we want religious RITES ,equally to every other religious nutjob who wants to get married in a church!

Democratic rights it Aint.

Oh dear does that make me a homophobe ,oh no it dosen't because the LGBT rejects the scientifically defined sexuality of Homosexual.it may make me a Gayphobe but it will pass as the LGBTIQAP disintergrates in the next period .