Posts Tagged ‘Sexual Orientation’

Bilingual? Bisexual? Teens (2012-5-21)

Who’re you into? Guys? Girls? Both? Or are ya undecided? I ask because I want to make sure I tailor my clinic interaction to the teen in my clinic room. More and more the answer is often something like undecided or bi? There’re some very noncommittal teens out there who are taking their time to [...]

But, I Don’t Want You To Be Gay (2011-12-27)

Can I change my teen’s sexual orientation if they aren’t completely an adult? The short answer is no. Can someone change yours? Too much money and time has been spent on trying to do what is the equivalent of trying to make a Black person White or even ironically a straight person Gay. One of [...]

The Cost of Homophobia, $35, 000 (2010-7-29)

Constance McMillen if you don’t know lives in a very conservative part of Mississippi called Itawamba County. She wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. It seemed everyone else was taking someone they cared about, she thought she would too. Up until now prom and other things that used intimate relationships as a basis [...]

Challenging the Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Who Knew Iowa would be the Cool State? (2009-5-26)

Today, the California Supreme Court decided to uphold the vote on proposition 8 to ban same –sex marriage. They did approve that the 18, 000 marriages that were performed remain legal. Whether you support or oppose gay marriage, what can be agreed upon is that both sides are passionate about the issue. It seemed like [...]