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Caption: Kumar and Sukwinder
India's “official” seal of disapproval of Gay activity is important especially for an immigration judge.. It now has inadvertently provided asylum...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Denny Meyer, Credit: Kelly Cogswell
Denny Meyer's service didn't end when he left the U.S. military. A first generation American, the gay Vietnam vet has spent the last decade working...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
Caption: Roger Ross Williams, San Francisco, CA 11/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roger Ross Williams talks culture wars, beacons of hope, and why it is a small world after all.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 17:26
Caption: The DeBoer-Rowse family is challenging Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage., Credit: Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
Examines legal discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Michigan.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:29
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"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." ~Harvey Fierstein

  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:58
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
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On May 23, the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its ban on gay youth members. The ban on gay adult leaders still stands. This program looks at...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Pictured: Hijras in India celebrating Koovagam, a Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Aravan., Credit: Wikipedia
Culture gives us permission - or denies us permission - to express what we find is true and real in ourselves. There is nothing natural, or inevita...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 20:44
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The term "Hinduism" refers to a multitude of traditions, so it's no surprise that Hindu attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality are complex. ...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:27
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For Buddhists, whether homosexuality is "right" or "wrong" isn't the question - it's more important to ask whether a behavior is "skillfull" or "un...

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  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Like many other conservative-leaning Christian denominations, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially condemns homosexual acts. ...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 11:54
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Anita Sherrill knew she was a lesbian since she was a little girl. But reconciling her sexuality with her Christianity, and with her father, hasn't...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:40
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African-American Christian denominations run the gamut, from Baptist and Evangelical to Roman Catholic. One thing they've have tended to share, tho...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:46
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Rev. Richard Cizik says he's undergone an "evolution" about the place of gays and lesbians in Evangelical Christianty - and says that American Evan...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:48
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Compared with mainliners, Evangelical Christians emphasize a more personal relationship with Jesus, and believe they have a sacred duty to share th...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
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Eve Tushnet is gay, Catholic, and proudly celibate. A recent convert, she decided she couldn't be a good Catholic and a practicing lesbian at the s...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 17:00
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When Celestine married Hilary 34 years ago, they were a typical heterosexual couple, bound by love and their vows of Catholic marriage. So 17 years...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
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In recent years, the Episicopal church has changed its rules on homosexuality, creating same-sex blessings and ordaining gay clergy. That hasn’t go...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 16:45
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Bishop Marianne Budde, the spiritual leader of some 40,000 Episcopalians in the DC-Metro area, shares the church’s official stance on homosexuality...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:18
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The director of one of the largest mosques in America presents Islam’s traditional approach to homosexuality: being gay is acceptable, but acting o...

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  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A gay, devout Muslim man recounts growing up in Pakistan, where being homosexual wasn’t just abnormal, it “wasn’t part of the vocabulary.” After mo...

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  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
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It all started with those two lines in Leviticus - a core text of Judaism. Two rabbis from opposite ends of the theological spectrum explain homose...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 18:53
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In Orthodox Judaism, to be both actively gay and "frum," or observant, is a theological taboo. Producer Jon Kalish spoke to four Orthodox men and w...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:38
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It all started on a Sunday afternoon in October, 1968. Twelve people gathered for worship in a living room in Huntington Park, California. It was t...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:05
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The Metropolitan Community Church wasn’t the only gay-friendly church in the early 70s. Around the same time, a small crop of churches and synagogu...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 21:38