The Gay Agenda

My friend JD is the producer of SHELTER a film of young gay surfers that portrays them in a positive and healthy lifestyle and homosexual relationships. Recently she screened the film at Crossroads School, in Santa Monica, as part of their Gay Straight Alliance Program. There was an attack against her for this from the Catholics.

Read about it here on her blog: Catholics up in arms over SHELTER screening

After reading the blog and the subsequent postings I was wondering what the Gay Agenda really was. I hear the right wing conservatives talk of it but I've never know what it was.

Here was my reply to JD's posting:

I am always saddened when I read such posts as these from "Christians" who claim they teach and preach the word of God. They always talk of the Gay Agenda. I'm gay and have no idea what that is. But I wonder if they use it as away to blind America from the Christian Agenda. It's the religious sect that has, through history, that has destroyed, killed, and terrorized people for their faith...not the gay community.

I did not grow up in a religious household. Fortunately, my parents taught my sister and I to follow our own religious path...and to this day I thought that was one of the bravest things they ever did.

I came out when I was 17. I was a senior in high school. The next year I went to a college. I was part of the school's choir. (I've always had a love of singing.) My first and second year were the hardest because their were so many "re-born again" Christians in our group.

Now everyone knew I was gay...I was dating one of the fellow students in the group. We were just dating...but those so-called Christians would remind me every day that I was going to Hell and that God didn't love me because I was gay. I didn't talk to them about it, it wasn't even their business... but they were obsessed with my homosexuality more than I was.

Truthfully, I started doubting myself...both as a gay man AND as a Christian. And here I thought religion was supposed to help you and instead it was tearing me apart. I couldn't sleep at nights. I was so angry. Angry at God and angry at these people for being so spiteful in the name of God.

Then I woke up one day and I realized I had a choice to make. So I went to class the next day and when they began to tease or taunt me I looked at them and I said: "I no longer believe in your God, I believe in MY God. Your God teaches hate; my God teaches love."

Christians forget that our love for God comes from in and spreads outward not the other way around.

I know this is a lengthy post and I say all that above to say this: Christians never seem to deal with their own problems just everyone elses. They forget that their love of God should come from within and spread out.

You never hear of Gay crime. Gays haven't taken over countries and killed in the name of Gaydom. That was the religious sect.

The only Gay agenda I know of is the one where gays and lesbians just want to wake up every day and love and be loved and share that happiness with others. Ironic, how it mirrors that of the religious agenda!!!!

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How do you define the gay agenda?

GLBT movies...

We are so lucky today that with channels like Here! and Logo we are introduced to so many Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender movies and TV shows. The younger generation can flick on the TV and there is a plethora of gay characters and storylines...something that used to be so taboo is now so commonplace.

But there were so many movies made - at a time when it wasn't accepted at all - that helped paved the way for where we are now. Which is your favorite?

Myspace

There is now a myspace page for the "It's So Gay" Film & Arts Festival. Check it out at It's So Gay

You can also click on the link in the links section below.

The Inaugural Event

I am putting together the "It's So Gay" Arts and Film Festival, the first gay and lesbian event that celebrates film, theater, art, music, and spoken word specifically for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.

This space is created specifically to create a forum and postings of this event as it commences with just a small idea and blossoms into a full fledge event.

My goal is to create a place where the younger generation and the older generation can come together through several mediums and explore the culture of being gay.

Come back and visit often, provide feedback, offer suggestions...and help me make this event be as successful as it can be.