Then there was the ever-present question of what exactly did and did not constitute gay culture.
Yet if one could not precisely demarcate the limits of gay culture, there was no question that it existed.
Were the sequences of Gone With the Wind directed by George Cukor a part of gay culture and those helmed by Victor Fleming not?
At the same time, it must be added that gay culture, since a time long before any of us were born, had been, even for its foremost creators and champions, a concept fraught with ambiguity and paradox.
But while Western culture as a whole has become more accepting of gay men and women, those who follow the progress of gay athletes say the football culture in Europe and the UK has a long way to go to make the sport more welcoming.
For conservatives, the family is being battered by pop culture, gay rights and feminism.
Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Tuesday that the NFL will promote what he calls a "culture of inclusion" for gay players and recruits and other prospective players.
The Republicans' own fury about those liberal judges merely underlines how important the judiciary is in the culture wars (abortion, gay marriage and the like) that divide America so bitterly.
Over the past 10 years, gay and lesbian lfe has emerged in pop culture.
It was into this culture that I flung, as it were, A Place at the Table, arguing, in essence, against the idea of a gay ghetto, whether in life or in culture.
Also, how are gay employees treated at the company given the corporate culture?
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They become this way as a result of growing up in a culture where emotions are associated with being female and gay and thus devalued.
The imposition of the radical homosexual agenda on an institution that has, until 2010, by culture as well as by law, prohibited openly gay individuals from serving in its ranks.
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There are also many stories that encapsulate our society and culture at this very moment -- from the first openly gay couple being able to adopt in Florida, to the innumerable amount of people struggling with obesity, to the increasing number of parents raising autistic children.
In the open-minded culture of that city, he had been able to have an un-closeted gay relationship without being judged.
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The event, McHaelen said, reflects a culture and society that doesn't believe a person can be both Christian and gay.
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Some are left-wing on economics but conservative on culture: just ask most black or blue-collar Christians what they think of gay marriage.
But he does not attempt to paint himself as a fearless culture warrior, and makes no mention of the bugbears of the religious right, abortion and gay marriage.
Advocates see such attacks in the context of a culture that has grown more accepting of gays in some ways - 12 states have now legalized gay marriage - but doesn't universally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.
In the past century as feminists discovered the clitoris, gay liberationists discovered homosexuality, and flower children discovered free love the illusion of erotic novelty entered mass culture.
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