Are non-practising celibate gays accepted into the gay community as well as those gays who enjoy lots of sex?

Answer 1

I was celibate for a year or two in the early 1990s. It wasn't a conscious decision and certainly not an identity. I saw myself as very much gay, but the reality of AIDS amongst my friends and my patients made it hard for me to see sexuality as the free gift I might otherwise have been able to see it as. There was a lot of suffering, and this was one of the ways that helped me cope.

A distancing thing, I guess.

I got over this feeling, by the way, but I have some sympathy for people who do choose celibacy, and never assume that there ought to be fixed rules about how one should make sense of sexuality.

At the same time, a "too hard basket" should be honestly recognised for what it is, and not elevated into something to be aspired to.

Answer 2

I'd assume so. It's not like straight people frown on straight celibate folks. Like in the straight community, I think we'd think it was weird, but not bad. I'd accept anyone into the community, whether or not they practiced gay sex, because sexual orientation is about desire, not necessarily about acting on it.

But if the person was being celibate for religious purposes, I think some people would find it okay, but most would be critical of it.

Answer 3

Just about everyone in the LGBT community is celibate, or UNMARRIED, due to the discrimination that still exists in many states and countries.

Some LGBT people choose to remain CHASTE, or to abstain from sex. As long as they have psychologically healthy and good self-esteem reasons for making this decision, they would be accepted 100%.

[Why do so many people confuse these two words? Perhaps because just about every media source does, too :o) ]

Answer 4

Are they celibate because they think gay sex is evil or are they celibate because of the reasons straight people become celibate? I don't mind celibacy, per se. That's a personal choice that I can respect, as long as the reasons aren't anti-gay.

Answer 5

There are those who would suspect a celibate gay's right to call him/herself gay. Too many people still think it is the activity and not the rationale behind it that makes a person gay.

Answer 6

i'm Lutheran and when I bypass to my parents church (Lutheran as nicely) my spouse and that i do no longer commune with them of their church. Our synods are no longer in finished doctrinal contract with one yet another. i be attentive to it rubs my parents the incorrect way, on account that they practice 'Open Communion.' of direction, we are the propose ones for abstaining from communion there and practising 'Closed Communion." bypass parent. i glance at it this manner. If I have been a Democrat, why might i might prefer to attend and take part in RNC fundraisers or activities? i be attentive to it relatively is a exceptionally simplified outlook on the issue, yet think of approximately it. If I commune with a church that i'm no longer in doctrinal contract with, i'm in actuality condoning their practices, ideals and doctrinal statements. yet we live in an age the place cutting-side christianity likes you to have faith, we are all the comparable, that stable Biblical doctrine isn't significant and that we are able to be unifed (and practice fellowship) if we meet some middle standards (that's subjective for each denomination and believer.) we are able to thank Liberal Protestantism for this and cutting-side Evangelicalism.

Answer 7

Some I know wouldnt mind it others would say your a self loather. It all depends on the individual I spose

Answer 8

yes