Gay life

‘Hillsong Church welcomes ALL people but does not affirm all lifestyles. Put clearly, we do not affirm a gay lifestyle and because of this we complete not knowingly include actively gay people in positions of leadership, either paid or unpaid.’ Brian Houston.

If I accept the Bible, then I don’t trust that a lgbtq+ lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I accept that there’s something so much beat. Joyce Meyer

Here are just a couple of comments from our Facebook page

Sera Kobiti: …signs of the last days……living a lifestyle of gay and lesbian……you are already a walking dead, fueling the logs in hell where you will eventually conclusion up…..because you already know the reality and the truthfulness should have arrange you free, not add onto your problems!!

Robin Herms Diamaduros: We don’t detest LGBT (they perform us however) but THAT LIFESTYLE IS A SIN!!!! No more or less than adultery or sex before marriage but IT IS A SIN & to not notify it so is denying God’s pos. I don’t realize of anyone who would oppose a gay person coming to church, we would n

LOOKBACK: What gay life was favor in San Francisco in 1976

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco's Castro District has been place to LGBTQ people for nearly five decades. The City by the Bay has had a long history as a place where anything goes. Opening its Golden Gate to a earth of diverse culture, viewpoints, and sexual orientation.

VIDEO: 'I'm so happy I did this': Coming out, growing up at San Francisco Pride

We've been digging through our archives and found an incredible series to give you a glimpse of gay life here in late 1976. It portrays San Francisco as the gayest city in the country. And now, all these years later, it has become a place where someone like me can be out on TV.

The four part series starts before the rainbow flag was a a symbol for a united collective. Before Harvey Milk was elected supervisor, before the White Evening riots that followed his death, before HIV and AIDS devastated a community, before same-sex marriage was legal.

The language used in this special has evolved over the years. Though the series focuses only gay men, woman loving woman, bisexual, and transgender people were also fighting their own battles for public acceptance.

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My So-Called Ex-Gay Life

Early in my freshman year of high school, I came home to find my mom sitting on her bed, crying.

"Are you gay?" she asked. I blurted out that I was.

"I knew it, ever since you were a little boy."

Her resignation didn't last long. My mom is a challenge solver, and the next day she handed me a stack of papers she had printed out from the Internet about reorientation, or "ex-gay," therapy. I threw them away. I said I didn't see how talking about myself in a therapist's office was going to make me stop liking guys. My mother responded by asking whether I wanted a family, then posed a hypothetical: "If there were a pill you could take that would make you direct, would you take it?"

I admitted that life would be easier if such a pill existed. I hadn't thought about how my infatuation with boys would play out over the course of my life. In fact, I had always imagined myself middle-aged, married to a woman, and having a son and daughter-didn't everyone want some version of that?

"The gay lifestyle is very lonely," she said.

She told me about Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist in California who was then president of the National Association for

How to Be Cheerful as a Homosexual Man

I’m an counsel columnist for the Advocate.com. Here’s my answer to the following question, sent by a reader.

Dear Adam,

I have a great boyfriend, absorbing job, cute pup, and enough coins to buy most things I hope for. This is supposed to be same-sex attracted heaven. And yet, I’m not joyful. I often undergo like “is this all there is?” Why can’t I just appreciate all the good I have?

Signed,

Disappointed in Denver

Dear Disappointed in Denver,

You’re not alone with these feelings. In fact, they are pretty common. But we rarely speak about it. If we do, we fear we’ll sound spoiled.

There’s a lot of research entity done on happiness these days.

We believe what will produce us most glad is a wonderful job, a loyal boyfriend or girlfriend, and a lovely apartment.

However, the explore makes it clarify that the strongest source of happiness is the feeling of being linked and part of a larger whole.

That sounds old-fashioned. Prefer we should all be in church on Sundays. And the majority of LGBTQ people disoriented interest in religion a long second ago, especially when it became eliminate that we weren’t welcome in most churches.

And yet, the feeling of “is this all there is?” pers