"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier
Welcome to youth for heterosexual, homosexual & bisexual people of Calgary and here I have created this website for some of the quations that some people have over the diffrent sexual orientation and to creat peace among the youth of Calgary.
Homosexual & bisexual people just like heterosexual people come in all shapes, sizes, and from all walks of life.
Heterosexual person is a man or woman whose feelings of sexual attration of someone of the oppiset sex.
Homosexual person is a man or woman whose feelings of sexual attration for someone of the same sex.
the word homosexual was first used by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1869 were he argued for the repeal of prussia's anti-homosexual laws.
Homosexual combines the Greek word for "same" with the latin word for "sex"
"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
Pansexual some time is knowing a omnisexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by a potential aesthetic attraction, romantic love and/or sexual desire for anybody, including people who do not fit into the gender binary of male/female implied by bisexual attraction. Pansexuality is sometimes described as the capacity to love a person romantically irrespective of gender. Some pansexuals also assert that gender and sex are meaningless to them. The word pansexual is derived from the Greek prefix pan-, meaning "all".
Pangender is a term for people who feel that they are mixed gender idenity equally with both genders and feel they are both male and female who feel they are genderless.
Two-Spirit (also two spirit or twospirit) is a term for third gender people (for example, woman-living-man) that are among many, if not most, Native American and Canadian First Nations tribes. It usually implies a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit living in the same body. It is also used by some contemporary gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex Native Americans to describe themselves. There are also native terms for these individuals in the various Native American languages.
Cheyenne hetaneman or female two-spirit in a ledger drawing ca. 1889
Transsexual person self-identifies as a member of the gender opposite to the one assigned to them at birth. Transsexualism is considered a taboo subject in many parts of the world. The justifications for negative beliefs about transsexualism may be perceived as being supported by religious beliefs or cultural norms. It has become more widely known in Western nations in the late 20th century due to the sexual revolution, but remains a highly controversial topic.
Openly FamousTranssexual
Nadia Almada (born January 28, 1977)
Portuguese reality television star, best-known for being the first transsexual winner of the reality show Big Brother UK, in 2004.
A Lesbian is a homosexual woman.
The word drives from the Greek island of Lesbo were Sappho, a teacher knowing for her poetry celebrating love between woman and established a school for young women in the sixth century B.C., and the world lesbian use to once simply meant someone who lived on lesbo and had come to mean a woman who like Sappho and her followers, love other women.
"It's hard enough to be taken seriously in the struggle for gay rights without having a bunch of straight girls running around kissing each other to get the attention of boys and videocameras."
M. Robin D'Antan 2002
A Gay is a homosexual Man.
Gay is a synonymfor homosexual since the late 1960's. The word gay has been publicy adopted by homosexual men and women as a positive alternative to the clinical sounding homosexual and the word has been used as a slang in place of homosxual since as far back as the 1920's.
Bisexual is a person who has significant feeling of sexual attration for both men and women
Bisexual has become a misconception become becuse a lot of gay & lesbian people call themselves bisexual on the way to accepting their homosexual orientation, and a big number of people have the misconception that all men & women who say they are bisexual are homosxual who are afraid of admit the truth about themselves and this is simply a misconception.
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 18, 1966)
Was a Canadian business woman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States.
Women (Lesbian):
Shere Hite, in ther 1976 hite report on female sexuality found that about 8 percent of all women thought of themselves as Lesbian. Another 9 percent had engaged in sexual relationships with both men and women.
Men (Gay):
Alfred Kinsey, a famous sex researcher found that about 10 percent of male population was exclusivly homosexual for their adult lives. furthermore 37 percent of the men he interviewed had engaged in at lest one same sex sexual experiences but this preport was done in 1940's -1950's so the figers now could be higher then the finding that this report found but no one has does a report as Alfred Kimsey did since then.
"A lot of people who are mainly Heterosexual have gay feelings and gay sex from time to time."
No one becomes a homosexual any more than someone become heterosexual.
some people having heterosexual feelings and others having homosexual feeling remains a mystery, and just as heterosexual people don't choose ther feeling of sexual attraction nor do homosexuals choose theirs.
"Why would I choose to be something that horrifies my parents, that could ruin my career, that my religion condenns and that could cost me my life if I dared to walk down the street holding hand with my Boyfriend?"
The key to knowing if you're heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual is to pay attenion to your feelings of attention but the challenge for homosexual or bisexual people is being honest with themselves about what they're feeling becuse society is in general so unaccepting of them, so many of them will play heterosexual to fit the norm of what society is saying and will not be true to there own feelings.
Yes! sexual orentation weather it is homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual has every thing to do with feeling of attration and nothing to do with actual sexual experiences, and as you grow you will become aware of your feeling, that awareness whenther is's attraction to the opposite, both or same sexes does not require actual sexual experiences.
No! Plenty of heterosexual people have had homosexual experiences and some with homosexual having had heterosexual, but these experiences have not changed someone's basic sexual orentation but it could broadened a few horizons.
AIDS (Acquuired Immunodeficiency Syndrme) is a disease of the immune system that eventually destroys the body's ability to fight other diseases and is caused by a virus HIV (Human Immudofeficiency Virus) witch is transmitted when blood, semen, or vaginal secrecourse, or through intravenous drug use when needles are shared.
Summer of 1981 those perplexing cancer cases were just very beinning of what became the AIDS epidemic. by the early 1990s, in North America alone AIDS had claimed the lives of well over one hundred thousand, more than half of them gay men. The World Health Organization (WHO) now calculates that HIV has infect up to 40 million people men and women adults and children, Heterosexual, Homosexual-worldwide are infected with the virus..
AIDS is caused by HIV, a virus, not someone's sexual ordination, and it is spread in a number of ways, not just by one kinda of sexual act and in most parts of the world it's predominantly heterosexual disease. In the USA where AIDS first spread among gay men on major urban areas, the manjority of those already with HIV as of the early 1990s were gay men, but with each passing day gay men make up smaller & smaller percentage of total AIDS cases in the USA and in Canada as the disease continues to spread.
"You can not get AIDS through casual everyday contact with someone who has the disease"
Dec 1 AIDS Awarness Day (25 years of the epidemic)
A crime offences committed against a person or property which is motivated by the offenders bias against pace, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
"I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant." - Paul Newman
The fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. It can also mean hatred, hostility, or disapproval of homosexual people, sexual behavior, or cultures, and is generally used to insinuate bigoty. The term homophobic means "prejudiced against homosexual people," and a person who is homophobic is a homophobe.
The harassment of homosexuals range from name calling spray-painting antigay epithets on the homes of gays, to slashing tires on cars outside gay bars, vandalizing offices of gay and lesbian organizations and too often homobia goes well beyond name-calling to death threats, beating and even murder and every day 4 out of every 10 homosexual will have the inpaced of homophobia and becuse of that, homosexual youth are 2 to 3 times more likey to commit suicide then their heretosexual peers and for what just cuse of who they love.
"Homophobia is a social disease."
In 1998 Judie Shepard, lost her son Matthew Shepard to Homobia and since her son death on Oct 12,1998 at the age of 21, she has opened Matthew Shepard Foundation "For Embrocing Diversity".
Scarecrow by Melissa Etheridge
Song written and performed by Melissa Etheridge. She wrote the song in memory of Matthew Shepard.
Gay and Lesbian people who are comfortable with ther emperience with tell you that their experience of being with someone of the same feels normal and being with someone of the opposite sex feels unnatural.
Some gay men lisp as do some heterosexual men. A lisp is a type of speach defect not an affectation in which "s"is pronounced like "th", and for some reason it has been associated with the gay male strerotypes.
The closet is simply a metaphor used to describe the place gay & lesbian people keep their sexual orientation hidden and it most basic "Comming Out of The Closet" means being honest with those around you about your sexual orientation.
This is a myth cuse just like some heretosexual guys, some homosexual guys like sports and there are teams for homosexuals to play on and there is one that is called "Gay Games" and that was first held on Augest 29 through Septmber 5, 1982 in San Francisco more then 1,300 athletes from fiftee countries particated.
Many gay and lesbian people marry hereosexual people and for a variety of resons. Some homosexual people marry hereosexual people becuse getting married is what we learn is the right thing to do, and our culture is geared twards heterosxual married relationships and the homosexual people like heterosexual people want to fit in and "do" the right thing and only in reason years were homosexuals alowed to marry in Canada.
"I am the love that dare not speak its name."
Lord Alfred Douglas From poem Two Loves
Any woman heterosexual or homosexual can tell you that you don't need a penis to achive an orgasum and that penile-vaginal intercores does not quarntce orgasm is stimulation of the clitoris whitch is located outside and above the Vagina and/or the G-spot which is located inside the vagina and it can be reached with out a pinis and these include using fingers, tongues, dildos, and so forth.
No, that is a myth, however some people gay or straight men, women find anal stimulation and/or penetration with a penis, finger, dildo, or whatever pleasurable others don't. Some men Heterosexual and homosexual enjoy inserting penis into the anus of a partner males or females others don't.
No, althrough not everyone will agree wuth this cuse we live in a nation were horality and religous beliefs are not legislated butr are a matter od personal choice.
Dr. Frank Kameny, who was fired from his job at the US Army Map Services in 1957 becuse he was gay. Dr. Frank Kameny prusued his case to the supreme cort in the late 1960's and. Dr. Frank Kameny councued that homosexual was moral. The supreme cort refused to hear Frank's case and he later went on to pioeering a gay right organization in Washington, D.C. in 1968, Dr. Kameny, inspired by Stokely Carmichael's creation of the phrase "Black is Beautiful", created the slogan "Gay is Good" for the gay civil rights movement, In part becuse of Frank's dogging efforts, The Federal goverment officially stoped exclueding homosexual from goverment employment in 1975 and then Dr. Kameny was appointed as the first gay member of the District of Columbia's Human Rights Commission in the 1970s.
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
Johann von Goethe
Like heterosxual people many homosexual people want to be parents and for all the same resons, more gay men and lesbians having children and paritcularly lesbian couples are choosing to have children through a variety of methods including artificial insemination, adoption, co-parenting and surrogacy.
Myth: Gay & Lesbian parents will raise homosexual children
Myth: Homosexual will sexualy abuse their children.
Truth: From every thing that is knowing, a parent cannot affect a child's sexual orientation.
Truth: Homosexuals are no more likely to sexually abuse their children then heterosexual people.
Same-sex marriages is the untion of two members of the same sex who equaly love each others as do there counterparts of hereosexuals do.
Canada legaly alwoed same-sex marriages and is also know as "Bill C-38", to pass this bill it took a lot of over coming of homophobia and a lot of hard work with some of those who are homosexual and heterosexual who was in support of the passing of "Bill C-38".
"If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them!"
-Author unknown
This Video is by PFLAG
Created by David, E-mail: davidwil@shaw.com