GBLTQ - It's NOT a Sandwich

Transgender covers the range of experimenting with being the other gender through clothing choices to the years-long process of making the change surgically and medically.

Questioning friends arre often teens and early adults who are developing their sexual identity.

These words do not mean an individual is a predator or a pedophile. They do not mean that the individual is interested in inappropriate "public displays of affection." They are not (or should not be) terms of insult. These labels describe an acknowledgement of what a Higher Power may have instilled in one of his precious creations.

The political and social climate is forever evolving. At the time of the Stonewall riots in New York City, the gay community was seeking only safe places for meeting, dating, and fraternizing. Things have improved for this population, but the struggle for equality is not finished. Now, in the 21st century, the gay community seeks the rights of marriage and its economic benefits, and the right to raise children through adoption or medical intervention.  Some states are granting marriage rights of varying degrees.  Perhaps one days, we will shake our heads at our own nation, saying with shame, "Why did we treat THEM (natives Americans, immigrants, gays,...) so poorly?"

The entertainment media feature increasing numbers of offerings in which characters are either incidentally gay or are gay and struggling with issues related to that status.  It is more common to see same-sex couples holding hands in public or to have dating/romance services cater to all sorts of combinations.  Even the U.S. navy created history by allowing the first sailor off a returning boat to give the first kiss to her same-gender partner waiting on shore.