They beat Smollett so bad that they managed to crack a rib and poured an unknown chemical substance all over him. All this is being considered as a possible hate crime by Chicago police. Well, duh?! No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate. What happened to Smollett is down right horrible and inexcusable in a time where so much progress has been made.
Inside the emboldened, if hardly unified, ranks of the L. By Benoit Denizet-Lewis. Holden was drinking disappointing sangria with a friend at the bar of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, where he had come last February more out of curiosity than reverence for the president. He was in town for his first Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC , an event that he took seriously enough to dress up for dark suit, American-flag tie but that he was also interested in for its anthropological weirdness. A few feet away, several conservative gay and bisexual journalists and activists reclined on couches.
The Catholic Church's position on homosexuality is based on a distinction between being lesbian or gay and acting on it, accepting the former while at the same time considering the latter to be wrong and sinful. Often, however, that distinction becomes blurred and the message that many Catholics hear is that merely being gay is sinful. And while living an out and open life is powerful and important for LGBTQ people, there are some individuals who choose to be only partially out. I am dedicated to my own faith without feeling I needed to follow some of the more conservative teachings of the Catholic Church," said Demeo. I feel comfortable with my religious beliefs and I feel they are compatible with my life as a member of the GLBT community.