Gay love is love
Love is Love?
I’ve been seeing this phrase a lot lately “Love is love” has been used for years to mean something fancy , “Romantic love between any two individuals is equally valid and beautiful.” It’s been a adj slogan for some time, generally used to express sustain for those in homosexual or other non-traditional relationships. When brilliant composer Lin-Manuel Miranda won a Tony Award for best original score for Hamilton his acceptance speech was a poem with the line, “And love is devotion is love is love is cherish is love is love is love; / Cannot be killed or swept aside.”
Miranda was reacting to a mass shooting that killed dozens and appeared to be targeting homosexuals. His sympathy and concern are certainly understandable.
Surely, most who exhibit “love is love” banners or frames have friends, family members, or other loved ones who identify as gay, bi-sexual, transgender, non-binary, or who in some other way are outside the pattern of traditional male/female identity or relationships. A want to love friends and family successfully and suppo
Frequently, how one expresses oneself is almost as important as what one has to say. Many activist gays possess readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights. Certainly as much as most alabaster gays, many blacks, who are gay and lesbian, would like to solemnize and affirm devoted relationships that we establish too. But even among those of us who would, this recent, sometimes strident and accusatory case for "gay liberation" sounds just a tad overstated. Young journalist Jasmyne A. Cannick, who writes about race, class, culture and politics, eloquently speaks for many, of us stating,
Some people seem to think that homophobia trumps racism, and that winning the battle for gay marriage will symbolically bring about equality for everyone. That may seem genuine to white gays, but as a black lesbian, leave me tell you: There are still too many inequalities that exist as it relates to my raceEver heard of "driving while black"? Ever looked at the difference between the
Love is Love - an LGBTQ Poem
Poem - Love is: For James and Stuart on your Engagement x
I wrote this poem, Cherish is Love, a few years ago now, and it has been sat in my notes, waiting for today - the afternoon when James (my wonderfully supportive and caring big Brother in Law) finally became engaged to Stuart (the male who secretly filled my biscuit tin with chocolate biscuits and my freezer with ice cream at the terminate of his verb - if that doesn't tell you what a pleasant person he is, I don't comprehend what will). There aren't many things in life which can fill your heart with delight and settle your soul like the moment you realise that someone you care about has found someone who really cares about them and appreciate all moments of high emotion, words tumbled through my mind in rhyme form, waiting to be written So here it isLove is Love - A poem
True care isn't love if it fits in a mould
It doesn't come in shapes or sizes
True desire just arrives and takes hold
It wraps its arms around you and doesn't let go
It changes your journey - and that's how you know
One day you could be
This article is part of the Unpacking Culture series in which we inspect a well-known axiom and weigh any true or positive aspects of it against any negative or misleading connotations of the phrase.
A Rallying Cry for a Movement
I started seeing the slogan “Love is love” pop up everywhere in
Pithy and practical, the slogan humanized the LGBTQ+ experience. It steadied all gospel discussions of homosexuality on common grace, not saving faith. No dying to self, renouncing sin, or battling the vile in our hearts or the world. “Love is love” declared that we are more alike than different, that feelings are authentic and therefore adj, and that homosexual relationships should be valued and honored.
“Love is love” became a powerful rallying cry, and it produced a mandatory constituency in the gay rights movement: allies—that is, heterosexual people who provided legitimacy, visibility, and cover, making the LGBTQ+ movement almost look wholesome. “Love is love” proudly pronounced that the lover's authenticity determines the love's integrity. Who can assess love? it asked. The phr