Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual: Jesus could have been any of these. There can be no certainty which. The homosexual option simply seems the most likely. The intimate relationship with the beloved disciple points in that direction. It would be so interpreted in any person today Paul Oestreicher in ‘Was Jesus gay? Probably.’ Read more here
It must be awful, being a homophobe. Having to spend all that time obsessing about what gay people might be doing with their genitals. Seeing it in your mind, over and over again, in high-definition close-up. Bravely you masturbate, to make the pictures go away, but to no avail Charlie Brooker, in ‘Some people are gay in space. Get over it’, comments on the reaction to news that video game players can now identify as LGBT.
For the last few weeks I’ve been fielding calls from China to Italy asking, essentially, what’s wrong with America? Four years into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, why has birth control become a major issue in the presidential election? Historian Nancy L Cohen asks why this election is all about sex
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