GAY TRUTH

More than half of LGBT people have suffered depression in the past year, according to a major new study. A report by LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) charity Stonewall found 52 percent had experienced depression and 61 percent anxiety . Why? The standard rejection argument? Stonewall’s “health report”, a survey of 5,000 LGBT people, found one in eight people aged between 18 and 24 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year. For trans people, it also found 46 percent had thought about taking their own life. Stonewall chief executive Ruth Hunt said the report had uncovered “worryingly high rates of poor mental health experienced by LGBT people in Britain today”. Gospel Health spoke person Lydia Gron, "LGBT leaders who read this study will point to homosexual exclusion barrier, personal rejections etc rather than looking at their own sinful disordered lives. Harsh, maybe, truthful yes. The Netherlands which is very gay-friendly for decades still r...

We should have seen it coming. Back in 1989 two young activists pushing for the normalization of homosexuality coauthored a book intended to serve as a political strategy manual and public relations guide for their movement.  In After the Ball: How America Will Conquer its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s, authors Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen argued that efforts to normalize homosexuality and homosexual relationships would fail unless their movement shifted its argument to a demand for civil rights, rather than for moral acceptance.  Kirk and Madsen argued that homosexual activists and their allies should avoid talking about sex and sexuality. Instead, “the imagery of sex per se should be downplayed, and the issue of gay rights reduced, as far as possible, to an abstract social question.” Beyond Kirk and Madsen and their public relations strategy, an even more effective legal strategy was developed along the same lines. Legal theorists and litigators began to ...