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Monday, November 2, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015
"It's True, Lovers Do Start To Look Alike..."
Amongst gay couples, it's often referred to as "A Boyfriend Twin"
"While you may be familiar with the old saying, “opposites attract,” in reality, what the heart wants is someone who resembles its owner and that resemblance increases the longer two lovebirds stay together.
University of Michigan psychologist Robert Zajonc conducted an experiment to test this phenomenon. He analyzed photographs of couples taken when they were newlyweds and photographs of the same couples taken 25 years later.
The results showed that the couples had grown to look more like each other over time. And, the happier that the couple said they were, the more likely they were to have increased in their physical similarity."
Read more about this interesting phenomenon here...
"Fear Eats the Soul"
"Selfie Love..."
"Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love...
"The Truth About Love..."
Meet Simon McNorton and Justin Johnson
Justin and Simon wanted a wedding that would blend their different backgrounds, cultures, and traditions. They got all of that and more.
BuzzFeed
Melissa Harrison
June 12, 2015
Married in May of last year, they're the first to admit they're a somewhat unlikely pair.
Their backgrounds, upbringings, and stances on things like politics and religion? Totally different.
Simon’s from the U.K.; Justin hails from North Carolina. When they first met, Simon was a grad student, while Justin was coming off tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines.
But at their wedding — held at the D.C. War Memorial in Washington — they celebrated those differences in a beautiful way.
“It was an interesting challenge,” Justin told BuzzFeed Life, of planning the big day. “But we agree on more than we disagree — and we certainly learned a lot from each other in the process.”
To start, they knew they both wanted a non-traditional wedding — one that blended their different styles and cultures.
On their big day, Justin wore his Marine Blues, and Simon donned a traditional Indian Sherwani.
“I had my heart set on it the same way a bride might have [a] vision of the perfect dress,” Simon told BuzzFeed Life. “Got it tailored, spent far too much money on it, but I felt like a Maharaja when I put it on. I’m still looking for excuses to wear it.”
Even the ones who couldn't be there.
When much of Simon’s family wasn’t able to make it over from the U.K., they Skyped them in.
“My dad was at the front of the ceremony the entire way through holding up my smartphone to Skype with my grandmother, aunt, and two brothers back home in England. They watched the entire thing,” Simon said. “Who knew you could get enough signal on the National Mall?”
Looking back on everything today, Justin and Simon — who now live in the U.K. — couldn’t be more pleased with the way the day turned out.
They say getting to that point comes down to one thing: A willingness to compromise, even when differences threaten to get in the way.
When the pair realized they were very split over who should officiate the ceremony — Justin wanted a reverend; Simon wanted to keep it secular — they talked through every alternative, before asking a close friend to do the honors.
But ultimately, they say, any differences turned out to be a good thing. Freeing, even.
“One of the lucky things about having a non-traditional wedding — a same-sex couple, one of us being non-religious, coming from two very different backgrounds — is that we weren’t fixed down by any particular traditions or cultural norms,” the couple told Washingtonian. “We were able to really do whatever we wanted.”
Their advice to engaged couples facing something similar is to remember what brought you to point of wanting to get married in the first place.
And to remember that you both have the best intentions at heart.
“The biggest thing about your wedding day is the fact that everyone is there to celebrate,” Justin said. “The rest is just details.”
Congrats on celebrating a year of marriage, Justin and Simon!
And cheers to many, many more.
"Same Gender Loving People - No. 2170"
"Because All Love Is Equal..."
Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.
"And The Truth Shall Set You Free..."
Olympian Gus Kenworthy
This is coming out of the closet in the Twitter age...
— Mike Douglas (@MikeDski) October 22, 2015
Read the full article here: https://t.co/BzxJF1pR0G
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) October 22, 2015
Despite hundreds of online marriage proposals the first (and only) person to send me flowers is my mom... #imaloser pic.twitter.com/x7GOv0JUtg
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) October 22, 2015
First night out of the closet and @tyleroakley is spending the night! Lol. #binge pic.twitter.com/j1UmYIQtR6
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) October 23, 2015
In a relationship I am the man. As is the other man. I'm gay. Not trying to emulate a heterosexual relationship. https://t.co/AJwyskECWf
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) October 24, 2015
Thanks so much for paving the way and being such an inspiration! https://t.co/BBjvswYtOV
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) October 22, 2015
Miley's Instagram post about @guskenworthy 💜 pic.twitter.com/X5EFnm5YlF
— MileyCyrus Updates (@CyrusIsMyVirus) October 22, 2015
"Fear Eats the Soul"
"The Truth About Anti-Gay Hypocrisy...."
Queerty.com
According to the trailer for a new documentary called Amores Santos, or Sacred Love, a certain set of holy men are lifting their frocks and showing off their scepters to other men online.
In the film, it appears that one gay man films his encounters with a priest (or priests?) from the anti-gay Assembly of God Church, who utters fatherly phrases to his online boyfriend like:
“I’ve been thinking a lot about us. It’s too strong. I’ve never felt like this before.”
And:
“The Church has hypocrisies within itself. 90 percent of all priests are gay.”
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Having been a closeted clergyman in an anti-gay denomination myself, I can tell you that the filmmaker's claims are not far off the mark...
"Fear Eats the Soul"
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