Cultures & Groups - 19 June 2007

I just heard that the marriage bill for NY just passed some stage of government (didn't catch the whole story and its the only one they havn't repeated 20 times go figure lol) if i hear it again i will add details. but what do you think this means are we actually going to get the same rights soon?

2007-06-19 22:58:41 · 5 answers · asked by bookluvr315 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Hi all, well its another rainy day in Scotland again, me and the dogs will have webbed feet before much longer, hows it in your corner of the world? come on own up who's pinched the sun?

2007-06-19 21:35:52 · 16 answers · asked by Roxy. 6 in Senior Citizens

She lost custody of her son in 1993 to her mother, who claimed because she was a lesbian she was an unfit mother, the Virginia courts agreed. I am just curious as to what kind of relationship the family has now.

2007-06-19 20:46:52 · 2 answers · asked by much_brighter_days 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-06-19 20:37:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Modernity is looked upon as forward looking force, while tradition is something that has existed in the past. Will the two of them always result in conflicts or are there some cases where they can fuse together without any conflicts.

How does tradition help to forge our identity, as in, how can we say who we are through our tradition?
Does being modern destroy that identity and make us a completely different person?

2007-06-19 20:12:28 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I stayed off for a few days and I did not encounter any racism or negativity in the real world. Then I come here and I see it. These people are ruining Yahoo Answers, when will we stand up to them?

2007-06-19 20:10:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

catch a bus
go to the movies
and what city

2007-06-19 19:51:17 · 3 answers · asked by jobees 6 in People with Disabilities

2007-06-19 18:44:40 · 8 answers · asked by manuela e 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

question for people of mixed race

2007-06-19 18:41:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Can anyone give me any arguments why gay marriage should be banned, excluding religious ones?

2007-06-19 18:27:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Im not racist.I have good black friends that are nice and are just normal people.I dont get why they dress in a way thats intimidating and also talk in a way thats intimedating with their hats and bandanas.Some white people imetate them.I see black teen agers dress this way.They think its cool.A black guy at the jim once told me what is a matter in an intimadating way.I like Montel Williams because he acts normal and talks normal.I wana see black people only in colur but just behave and dress the same like all Americans.They are good normal black people not gangs or thugs.Why to they pretend to be that way why cant they be themselves?Black does not mean tuff and angry and white does not mean racist its just a skin colur.Why cant we all be the same as unique individuals?Again dont missunderstand me Black/African American people im not against you Im against some minority of black people who pretend to be tuff because they think it is cool.

2007-06-19 18:22:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I'm single now just broke up with my gf of 5 months she was the best but she blow it by being such a psycho so we broke up but we have talked and she says she's sorry and that she won't doit again but she's the jealouse type she doens't want me talking to girls that r gay or bi I could only talk to straight girls so whene she found out that I would put stuff in here like where can I find girls and she would get mad she would even start fights with other girls over me belive me she's hot but I don't think I would take it she even get's jealouse over my cousin don't know what to do and if I don't go back with her where is the right place too go look for gilrs my age or should I go back with it plz help me need others opini... my friends tell me not to go back with her but I really dig her I don't love her but I like her alot so what should I do ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh plz

2007-06-19 18:12:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

And it wasn't true at all? Here is my situation. I was a cashier at a retail store, and this white woman came in my line and used a debit card(where she would enter in her pin number) ok that transaction was complete, so then comes a black man that uses a credit card. I ask him for his ID..and he said I was racists against my own kind because I didn't ask the white lady for her ID. So when I explained to him that we don't ID for debit cards when someone enters their pin number, but we ID for credit cards...he was rather embarrassed after he heard what I had to say.

2007-06-19 18:04:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-06-19 17:50:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I've known I was bisexual for a long time, over half my life. Tonight my boyfriend and I were talking and the subject came up. I decided that it was the right time to tell him when he asked me why I believed people were their orientation from birth.
I cried because it was pretty overwhelming, and he told me that he loved me just the same, but that homosexuality was a choice and a sin.
I just need help convincing him that I would never choose to be persecuted all my life for who I have feelings for.
Does anyone have an easy way to put it to him, to help him understand? He's been a Christian all his life, so he's pretty set in his beliefs, so I need some good points.

I am not leaving him - that is not an option.


Thank you all (:

2007-06-19 17:49:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I heard some trash about this on a radio talk show last week and I thought that was extremely rude and shallow.
I accept and respect him because he truly loves his children and he honors and respects his wife. He has a beautiful family.
If he wanted a white wife he would've married one.
Why are some bothered by it?

2007-06-19 17:45:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I wish i was attractive.

2007-06-19 17:39:35 · 9 answers · asked by Xavier A 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-06-19 17:14:43 · 25 answers · asked by robd 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

african americans cant live a normal life.Theres always somebody or someting talking about us.If its not our music.Its where we live or how we live.IF it isnt that its the way we talk they make it seem like were violent.They make it seem like we dont care when we really do they describe our neighborhoods as trashy,and violent.they make it seem like blacks are stupid.We have been described as ignorant many of times but this is our culture.

2007-06-19 16:46:22 · 11 answers · asked by B-mOrEz FiNeSt 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

what is the best way i can come out as a bisexual to a same gender crush without telling them i have a crush on them, but making it also easy for them to understand as a friend?

i know it kinda sounds stupid, but im also in high school.

and if it helps, i don't expect a negative reaction, but probably an incredibly awkward one.

2007-06-19 16:35:36 · 8 answers · asked by angie 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I think that for as much progress as we've made in the last 20 years, it's going to take about 20 more... so my conjecture is 2023.

But in my state, gay marriage is prohibited by a constitutional amendment, and there's no telling how long it would take to change that, even if the feds ok'd it. Maybe 15 years? So, who knows, maybe I will be able to marry by the time I'm 50.

What do you think?

2007-06-19 15:57:47 · 14 answers · asked by Rat 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Best friends? Casual friends? A gay or lesbian cousin? Total strangers?

2007-06-19 15:55:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-06-19 15:43:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-06-19 15:23:34 · 15 answers · asked by september 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

There are always singled out for international humiliation. i was on an international flight with americans, africans, europeans etc but only nigerians were frisked and subjected to debasing searches by immigration officials.

2007-06-19 14:58:52 · 11 answers · asked by izzyuzzy 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

just wondering.

2007-06-19 14:22:43 · 24 answers · asked by ? 6 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-06-19 14:17:17 · 15 answers · asked by dulce179 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I'm in favour of same-sex marriages. I'm no major activist or anything, just think gays should have the same rights as straight people. Would I not been labelled gay or something for having this view?

I am hetrosexual, some college 'fun and games' confirmed it.

2007-06-19 13:26:12 · 40 answers · asked by Salsoul 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I know that there is strength in numbers, but is not the whole purpose of banding together to attain rights for the individual?
If a group remains and begins to direct how its members behave, does not the individual lose strength rather than gain it? And anyone who may have a disagreement with the group, just as i, a bisexual woman, disagree with some gay issues, is outcast. And is not the group easily swayed by its most radical members?

2007-06-19 13:11:35 · 11 answers · asked by Lil Greek Girl 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

if so what was the hold up if they were born this way? i heard gay ppl are born gay. If you say denial.....would not it been signs for the ones that showed no signs?

2007-06-19 12:56:28 · 18 answers · asked by pebbles 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender