Archive for July 2014
The Bird Cage Still Relevant, 8 Years Later
Last week, I watched the hilarious “The Bird Cage” for the umpteenth time. Based on the play, “La Cage Aux Folles,” it’s a screwball comedy of gay characters trying to pass as straight for a dinner meeting with an Ohio Senator who finds Billy Graham too liberal and is a Vice –President of the Coalition…
Read MoreTesting The Undereducated
CDC’s Recent Sexual Orientation Survey Has Flaws In the July 22 article in The New York Times entitled “Questions of Orientation,” http://New York Times/7/22/14/Questions of Orientation, Jan Hoffman writes about the inadequacies of gathering information about sexual orientation. For the first time, respondents were asked about their sexual orientation while taking the Centers for Disease…
Read MoreIntroducing Your Gay Partner To Your Straight Parents?
When Is A Good Time? After a long, cold winter, it’s finally summer. Time for long weekends or a week’s or two’s vacation at the beach with friends or the annual family reunion at the lake? You want your significant other to share these times with you. Being in the throes of the new relationship,…
Read MoreNational Blame Someone Else Day, July 13, 2014
Don’t We Blame More Often? Human nature seems to dictate that it is much easier to blame someone else than accept responsibility for your actions that may thwart or disappoint you. Sunday, July 13, is supposedly “Blame Someone Else Day.” I don’t know about you, but I can find myself blaming others for my shortcomings…
Read MoreNational Forgiveness Day – Not With a Bang but a Whimper
I’m sure most of you did not know that June 26, 2014 was Forgiveness Day. It wasn’t recorded on your Smartphone, discussed in church or advertised as a Hallmark moment. The day went unnoticed. Guilty Thoughts Plague You have to sin in order to be forgiven. Many straight parents when their children come out, feel…
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