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Crowd in support of Gay Marriage (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Website helps Dutch Catholics "de-baptize" to quit church over its stance on same-sex marriage. AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Thousands of Dutch Catholics are researching how they can leave the church in protest at its opposition to gay marriage, according to the creator of a website aimed at helping them find the information. Tom Roes, whose website allows people to download the documents needed to leave the church, said traffic on ontdopen.nl - "de-baptise.nl" - had soared from about 10 visits a day to more than 10,000 after Pope Benedict's latest denunciation of gay marriage this month. "Of course it's not possible to be 'de-baptized' because a baptism is an event, but this way people can unsubscribe or de-register themselves as Catholics," Roes told Reuters. He said he did not know how many visitors to the site actually go ahead and leave the church.

Netherlands Christian Data

About 28 percent of the population in the Netherlands is Catholic and 18 percent is Protestant, while a much larger proportion - roughly 44 percent - is not religious, according to official statistics. The country is famous for its liberal attitudes, for example to drugs and prostitution, and in April 2001 it was the first in the world to legalize same-sex marriages.

Catholic Church Crusade against the Gay

In a Christmas address to Vatican officials, the pope signaled the he was ready to forge alliances with other religions against gay marriage, saying the family was threatened "to its foundations" by attempts to change its "true structure". Roes, a television director, said he left the church and set up his website partly because he was angry about the way the church downplayed or covered-up sexual abuse in Catholic orphanages, boarding schools and seminaries. A report by an independent commission published a year ago said there had been tens of thousands of victims of child sexual abuse in the Netherlands since 1945 and criticized the Catholic church's culture of silence.

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It's like he's saying "HEY!"

This is such an adorable <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=atlatradpart-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957&field-keywords=cat&url=search-alias%3Daps">Kitten</a><img src="https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=atlatradpart-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="Cat items on Amazon" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />.

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Gay Pride Rainbow Aurora

Reflecting Multihued Lights over Mountain Lake

by Rob Hughey (Google+) This Rainbow Aurora is Proud. Are you?

LBGT Gay Pride Christmas Presents 

Stocking Stuffers for LGBT People 

It's time for Santa to start getting the Reindeer ready to fly across the world, and from beautiful CafePress "Happy Holidays" cards to one particularly special ornament for Gay Pride Gifts for a dear friend on his or her "1st Out Xmas," these are some items sold by Google that may help turn your local Grinch into a Christmas Miracle. 

Or at the very least: you can check off one more thing off an already exhausting large list: Here are some intriguing Gifts for Gays for the holidays that support Gay Rights Initiatives plus are perfect to slip to the Friend that already has it all in a delightful Stocking Gay Gift Surprise.

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This is an old pic, but I’d never seen it with the original product text/story (which has since been changed on the Treetopia website) [via]:

I don’t know what to say about this Treetopia billboard that recently went up in Los Angeles.  I’ll let the tree’s description from the Treetopia website speak for itself:

“My first home was in a Vacation Bible School classroom where the students were learning all about Noah’s Ark and God’s promise to never again destroy the earth. Life was full of love; children sat close to me to be around the happiness that comes from rainbows and Christmas. I got to play the rainbow in all the church pageants. I was happy.

But one day the new minister’s wife ran in screaming, “That tree is a badinfluence on my little boy!!!” She pointed a shaking finger at me, and two burly members of the congregation picked me up and put me in a closet-like box. I didn’t understand what the uproar was about. After all, I’m Just a Rainbow Tree.

A few months and a cross country trek later, those closet doors were thrown open and I alighted onto the floor of a thrift store in San Francisco. A crowd gathered around; their “oohs” and “aahs” and “Fabulous!” escalated until they hoisted me onto their shoulders. I was paraded up and down Castro Street, and soon a line formed behind me as we sang “Somewhere over the Rainbow”. I was so overwhelmed by the immediate acceptance and love that I just burst into tears.

My place is still in that thrift store, in the center window, still drawing crowds with my 7 foot stature and cheerful looks (I don’t need lights!). Oh! Listen to this – Last Saturday a woman ran into the store and threw her arms around me. I’m used to that, but I was surprised when she whispered, “I’m sorry”. When she pulled away, I saw who it was: The minister’s wife, and right behind her was her little boy, wearing the loudest colors I’d ever seen on a child. “If wearing bright colors makes him happy,” she said, taking his hand, “then he can wear bright colors.” We all hugged, and live happily after ever.”

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How Can Gays Celebrate Pride?

Celebration of LGBT Culture and the Gay Community:

by RW Hughey (Google+)

Do you Have Pride in Yourself?

Some Special Ways to Celebrate LGBT Pride

Particularly LGBT Pride Month come next June, but Until Then... You can do these things anyway to help you remember how much you deserve to proud of who and what you are.

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Rainbow Pride Flag Waving at Gay Pride Parade

Do you know the history of the Gay Pride Rainbow Flag?

Each color represents a different aspect of the Diversity of the LGBT Movement:

The Colors of the Rainbow Flag

 (Gay Pride Flag Colors)

Pink = Sex

Red = Life

Orange = Healing

Yellow = Sunlight

Green = Nature

Turquoise = Magic

Blue =Serenity

Purple Spirit

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Gay Pride Flag History

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Keep Calm and Be Proud of Who You Are

This is inspired and beautiful, and as a member of the LGBT Community, it certainly fills me with a sense of Pride. 

Pride Mall is going to be a site designed around the feeling this image captures so well: effortless, breezy and weightless confidence in the very real fact that all of us in the Gay Community deserve a Shame-Free Life with Pride in who and what we are.

And just what are we?

We are men and women free to love whomever our heart deems worthy of loving.

Keep Calm, my LGBT Friends. And Be Proud of Who You Are.

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Excellent Advice on the fight to end Bullying of LGBT Youth. We must use communication and education to eradicate the cycle of violence and fear!

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How to Cope: LGBT and Loneliness

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This is all sorts of cute.

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It’s been so long!  I’ve missed you all!  Sorry about the lack of posts.  Lately inspiration has been a little bit scarce, but I thought I’d jump back on the horse with a new kaiju painting!  This is Agasukeron, one of my favorites.  These colors aren’t exactly true to form as far as the figure goes, but I do love some pink every now and then.

Here’s a tip: don’t paint with gouache on top of reg’lar old acrylic without some sort of matte medium between the two!  For some reason my brain turned off and I thought I’d save some gouache by painting the background here in acrylic.  Mistake!  Ended up using more gouache to keep my colors solid and even.  So don’t be a noob like me: all gouache, combo gouache and acrylic gouache, or make that acrylic a decent surface to paint on.

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Hide your Monster?

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So this is me and my beautiful girlfriend Jess showing our pride in front of Chick-fila. I love her so much. <3

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