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LGBT is an abbreviation used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender persons. While not without controversy, the term is more inclusive than homosexual or gay. The abbreviation GLBT, formerly common, has largely been replaced by LGBT. By 2005 LGBT had been adopted by the majority of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community centers as well as the press in most English-speaking countries.
Homosexuality is one of the main classifications of sexual orientation and is defined as romantic attraction and/or sexual attraction between individuals of the same sex. In modern use, the adjective homosexual is used for intimate relationships and/or sexual relations between people of the same sex, who may or may not identify themselves as gay or lesbian. Homosexuality is usually contrasted with heterosexuality and bisexuality. The term gay is used predominantly to refer to self-identified homosexual people of either sex, whereas lesbian is only used for self-identified homosexual females.
Around the world, state restrictions and protections regarding same-sex sexuality and relationships range from the death penalty for sexual acts to full marriage for same-sex couples. Among the first recorded laws on same-sex relations ca. 600 BCE are those in ancient Crete and Sparta, which encouraged all adult men to engage in mentoring homoerotic friendships.
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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
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Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has been variously called the "feminist that other feminists love to hate," a "post-feminist feminist", and by her own description "a feminist bisexual egomaniac."
She came to public attention in 1990, with the publication of her first book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Her notoriety as the author of this book made it possible for her to write on popular culture and feminism in mainstream newspapers and magazines. Paglia describes herself as a feminist, and as a Democrat who voted for Bill Clinton and Ralph Nader. She is a strong critic of much of the feminism that began with Betty Friedan's 1962 The Feminine Mystique, and compared feminists whom she considered to be victim-centered to the Moonies. Her libertarian and Dionysian sexual world view embraces fetishism, pornography, prostitution, and homosexuality. (MORE...)
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Andrew Warhola, better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author and a public figure known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats. He was one of the first major American artists to be open about being gay.
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