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That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Seth India Today Cover, Credit: India Today
He is one of the best known Indian writers writing in English these days. But Vikram Seth is a very private man. But Dec. 11, 2013 changed all that.

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
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For thousands of years, scholars have interpreted a handful of passages in the Bible, Torah and Koran as clear condemnations of homosexuality. From...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:06
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Open any Torah, Bible or Koran, and the passages about homosexuality seem clear: being gay is an abomination, a sin, something that incurs the wrat...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 34:26
Caption: Josh Morrissette
Josh Morrissette of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about gay marriage.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: :34
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After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:08
Caption: Michelle Kulstad and her lawyers, Credit: Helena Independent Record
Landmark decision in favor of parents -- of any sexual orientation

  • Added: Oct 07, 2009
  • Length: 02:03