That age group tends to use alcohol and recreational drugs most aggressively, often to escape the stigma and confusion associated with their newly embraced homosexuality, Dr. Gayle said.

Katikam: You can disagree with my admittedly vague assessment that "most people" aren't ready to embrace homosexuality, but your argument about what some surverys say about one demographic doesn't exactly convince.

Goethe's sexual portraitures and allusions may have been inspired by his sojourn in Italy, where some men, trying to avoid both the prevalence of venereal disease among prostitutes, and the demand of marriage among 'maidens', embraced homosexuality.

"As Rep. Steve Largent reminded us during the Congressional debate over DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act], no society that embraces homosexuality has ever survived."

There have been times when humans have embraced homosexuality, and heterosexuality, and incest, and multiple concurrent spouses, and prostitution, and bestiality, and sadomasochism, and there have been times when all of those have been abjured.

He is agnostic and argues that the churches have failed society with their inflexibility and their refusal to embrace homosexuality and, in the case of the Roman Catholic church, contraception; though Glennis feels they might be accused of accelerating moral decline if they approved such things.

Both were deeply affected by the Second World War; both also openly embraced homosexuality and scorned bourgeois life.

The extent to which these representations embrace or reject homosexuality has been disputed within the religion as well as outside of it.

Also, it comes from a place of being a band that is perceived as...such an aggressive, male-based, by some, misogynistic-seeming band... It's a display of embracing homosexuality, not that either of us are homosexual.