The gay life
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 difficulty 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
GAY LIFESTYLE ? – What is the gay lifestyle?
‘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 do not knowingly own actively gay people in positions of leadership, either paid or unpaid.’ Brian Houston.
If I believe the Bible, then I don’t believe that a queer lifestyle or a lgbtq+ lifestyle is the right way to choose to live. I believe that there’s something so much better. Joyce Meyer
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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 conclude up…..because you already perceive the truth and the truth should have put you free, not insert onto your problems!!
Robin Herms Diamaduros: We don’t loath LGBT (they do 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 call it so is denying God’s synonyms. I don’t know of anyone who would challenge a gay person coming to church, we would n
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Kern laughed at the vivid memory, a faraway moment when she already knew she was unlike everyone else, but didn’t yet know how. “Of course the war stopped all that, and a lot of the guys never came back.” She was twelve in 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. “I always mind I was very, very special, because I was very different from everybody in the neighborhood. And I always imagined that there was a ray of light beaming down from the sky onto me. Following me all over because I was very special. And I didn’t know why until we were in the midst of an air-raid drill.
“We used to acquire these regularly. It was in the evening. And the air-raid drill meant that all the lights had to be position out. Everything. As if there were actual opponent planes flying overhead. And all the lights would be doused, and the black curtains over the windows we had, and every light was either hidden, or covered, or turned off.
“So it was completely black. And I was sitting with my little girlfriend, whom I loved until it pain me. I was so crazy about Minnie. We were the same age. She was about five foot eight, and she was beautiful in my eyes. My
The Gay Life
A Musical Comedy in 2 Acts, 15 Scenes. Book by Fay and Michael Kanin. Suggested by the play Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler. Harmony by Arthur Schwartz. Lyrics by Howard Dietz.
World premiere at the Fisher Theater in Detroit - October 2, 1961.
O'Keefe Centre, Toronto - October 24, 1961
Sam S. Shubert Theatre - 18 November 1961 to 24 February 1962 (113 perfs)Original Company
CAST (in order of appearance):
Max: JULES MUNSHIN.
Usher: Sterling Clark.
Anatol: WALTER CHIARI.
Franz: LEONARD ELLIOTT.
Helene: JEANNE BAL.
Liesl Brandel: BARBARA COOK.
Herr Brandel: LORING SMITH.
Frau Brandel: LU LEONARD.
Mimi: YVONNE CONSTANT.
Proprietor: Michael Quinn.
The Superb Gaston: Jack Adams.
Otto: Rico Froehlich.
Waiters: Ted Lambrinos, Russell Goodwin. Anna: Joanne Spiller. Grandmother: Aura Vainio.
Photographer: Gerald Teijelo.
Doorman: Rico Froehlich.
Headwaiter: Carl Nicholas.
Waiters: Hal Norman, Ted Lambrinos.
Magda: ELIZABETH ALLEN.Singers: Ken Ayers, Russell Goodwin, Tony LaRusso, Ted Lambri
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