How have you been approached, and what did you do next? Have you in the long term, finding a church that you accept?

Thank you for sharing your stories.

I am a gay Christian. I have not been forced to leave a church, but I identify others who were. My main concern is for the many people who are so turned off by gays unrepentant homophobic even think they believe in God.

Michael B - Repeal Prop. 8! | Apr 14, 2009

Gay Hate Crime Faces & Stories

Stories of Hate Felony Deaths related to sexual orientation or race. Also over 100 different names in recollection. Very deep and touching! www ...

Brian Sims (I'm From Bloomsburg, PA) - True Gay Stories

A college football captain comes out to his side to open arms and gains a slew of new allies. (Gay | College Sports | Uplifting | Coming Out) [TV ...

Gay Stories: Sam_Briton I'm From Driftwood...on Towleroad

One of the most horrible stories you're ever likely to hear, from a true survivor in Iowa who tells Nathan Manske about the not so homely ...

Account, the first animadversion you will see on a given post is the "featured" one. We editors don't directly choose which observe gets featured—it's whichever one has the most responses. That means that on a litigious post, the most baiting or trollish comments become featured, usually due to a elephantine number of people voicing disagreement with the comment in question. The featured remark is rarely illustrative of what's actually going on in the thread—to get a head of that, you have to click "all" down in the "view comments" tab.

If you do that you'll see that yes, we get trolls, and overly mean self-styled comedians, and foul play-theory spouting weirdos, and folks who are convinced that we're a bunch of amateurs (we are not) who are on the take (we are not). But those types of commenters are the cavil, not the rule, and in and around them are hundreds of people just… writing what they consider. Don't believe me? Here, I'll show you.

Just today, we ran a guest editorial from Denis Farr following-up on his "This Gaymer's Falsehood " post we ran a while back. It talked about the word "faggot" and why he believes the word is not okay. Both of his stories were immensely personal, and invited abuse from commenters. The post went up and like clockwork, I saw people in my board and elsewhere complaining about how awful the comments were.

Source: Kotaku

Going, Going, Gone. : I Have Been to a Gay Bar Story & Experience

The first was empty, it is the beginning of the shadows of the night. We accidentally went into the toilet first, because we are missing: D My friends and I (because we were a company) went to others after the break, and the DJ kind of guy who enjoy the many wisdom of its own state we yelled at for not buying drinks. So we stuck around for a while. It was fun, we Communist when he began to fill. We had a release ^ _ ^ The timing was already full by the permanence we got there, and it was much more to play on the theme. Me being me, I stood on the side, arms crossed, watching everyone.I remember I started a rogue theme in my deep, but I can not for the entity to me rethinking that. There was something noble bearing. I can be in effect to those challenging moments. I so wanted to set up camp at the bar (no pun intended) and order that thing hard after taste. Experience has taught me is a very bad estimate, but if I resisted. The third position was .... captivating to say the least. I was in a normal atmosphere and this passage was more or less unequivocal remote, does not speak or smile or anything....

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Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South | Ebook Reviews

E. Patrick Johnson’s new tome Solicitous TEA purports to upraise the lives of Baneful Gay men from the American South by allowing them to outline their own stories. Maybe that’s what Johnson meant to do when he began inquire into on this long-drawn-out enlist of interviews. Unfortunately, he seems to have gotten sidetracked by his ego, his snobbish feeling and his willingness to make capital out of other Gay men in the interest of a the stage calling. His one-man level show based on this reserve may be artistically valid, but the lyrics itself fails as valid bursary. Johnson stages a rarity show in language of superficially unintelligible, self-aggrandizing sex and gender exotics, all friends of his or friends of his friends. After making them become available as na and antique as he peradventure can, he lines them up for interfering Clear up society to carefree at. Johnson’s fondness for indolent hearsay, for using animal slurs as endearments, and his ill-begotten warts-and-all category of editing(???)transcripts all strengthen...

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