Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual philosophers


Related Topics

  
  User:Hyacinth/Style guide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lastly, and most importantly, calling dead folks homosexuals is just as anachronistic as calling them gay, actually more so, since the use of gay to refer to same-sex romance or sexual activity actually predates homosexual.
"Lesbian and gay male are preferred to the word 'homosexual' when used as an adjective referring to specific persons or groups, and lesbians and gay men are preferred terms over 'homosexuals' used as a noun when referring to specific persons or groups.
Likewise, it is useful that women and men not be considered 'opposites' (as in 'opposite sex') to avoid polarization, and that heterosexual women and men not be viewed as opposite to lesbians and gay men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Hyacinth/Style_guide   (978 words)

  
 Talk:List of atheists/Old discussion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All-inclusive lists of famous people who were/are/might have been atheists for the purpose of making dejected teenages feel better can be found in warmer, fuzzier places that are specifically pro-atheism -- [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] were the first five that came up in a google search for "famous atheists".
The problem with having these lists is that they can never be said to be nearly complete, are oftentimes difficult to verify, many people change their faith several times during their lives and others only pretended to be faithful or are not considered to have belonged to a certain faith by some groups.
A list of Famous Scots says me that the people on that list have some connection with Scotland - maybe born there, maybe lived there, maybe both - and they are in some way famous.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:List_of_atheists/Old_discussion   (8163 words)

  
 More on Philosophers
Here is free textual content related to Philosophers to utilize on your web site in accordance wi th the GNU license.
A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy.
It can mean the academic exploration of various questions raised by philosophers; it can also mean a certain critical, creative way of thinking.
www.artilifes.com /philosophers.htm   (511 words)

  
 Attitudes toward gay people have varied considerably throughout the history of Western culture from the ancient ...
Lesbians and gay men, even more so than women, have been invisible in history; most of what we know about homosexuality and attitudes toward homosexuality is derived from religious and legal sanctions against homosexual behavior (Bullough, 1976).
In this chapter we generally include bisexuals in the discussion of gay men and lesbians because most of the historical record addresses homosexual behavior, not gay or bisexual identity; therefore, bisexuals often came to he grouped under the rubric “homosexuals” and undoubtedly share significant aspects of the gay experience in history.
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the past (and, to a great degree, in the present) have kept their sexual orientation a secret.
mypage.siu.edu /kasner/AHC5.htm   (13086 words)

  
 Alan Turing - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His first day of term coincided with a general strike in England, and so determined was he to attend his first day that he rode his bike unaccompanied over sixty miles from Southampton to school, stopping overnight at an inn — a feat reported in the local press.
Turing's natural inclination toward mathematics and science did not earn him respect with the teachers at Sherborne, a famous and expensive public school (a British private school with charitable status), whose definition of education placed more emphasis on the classics.
To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, a memorial plaque was unveiled at his former residence, Hollymeade, in Wilmslow on June 7 2004.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Alan_Turing   (2602 words)

  
 What is Philosophy? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge - Philosophy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Philosophers often frame their questions as problems or puzzles, in order to give clear examples of their doubts about a subject they find interesting, wonderful or confusing.
One of the focuses of recent continental philosophical schools is the attempt to reconcile academic philosophy with issues that appear non-philosophical, subverting common expectations of what philosophy is meant to be.
List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual academics
info.abaara.com /pac/Philosophy   (2475 words)

  
 List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is a partial list of confirmed and debated famous lesbian, bisexual, or gay people (lesbigay for short).
Many people who identify as gay or lesbian have had different-gender relationships in their youth, and many who identify as heterosexual have experimented with same-sex relationships.
However, such a policy is generally condemned within the lesbian and gay community as an infringement on a person's right to privacy, because of concerns about their family, their right to cope with their own sexuality on their own terms, or the risk of discrimination or loss of reputation.
www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/l/li/list_of_famous_gay__lesbian_or_bisexual_people.html   (2658 words)

  
 Ludwig Wittgenstein - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At the end of the war in 1918 he was sent to north Italy in an artillery regiment, and there he became a prisoner of the Italians.
During this whole period that Wittgenstein was away from university he was not completely isolated from the study of the foundations of mathematics and philosophy.
Wittgenstein communicated with the Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright, who succeeded Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Ludwig_Wittgenstein   (2857 words)

  
 Lists of Famous Homosexuals
The most famous example of this kind of motivation is found in Oscar Wilde’s famous defence of himself during his trials, when he compared ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ to the love of David for Jonathan, and defended its nobility and beauty with reference to works by Plato, Michelangelo and Shakespeare.
The list celebrates the fact not so much that queers are great, or even that they are creative, or even that they are good, but that queers are part of history: we have a unified historical cultural identity.
Lesbians in India, though they are reclaiming the terms jami, twins, and sakhiyana, women-to-women bonding, have also adopted ‘lesbian’ without much sense of uneasiness, precisely because it does establish a continuum with an ancient historical/cultural lesbian identity that goes beyond the West/East partition (Thadani 1996).
www.infopt.demon.co.uk /famous.htm   (7234 words)

  
 annotated bib
Gay Histories and Cultures constitutes one (the other is Lesbian Histories and Cultures) of the bibliographically separatist two-volume Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, the unacknowledged successor to the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality.
At times the biographee's, for example, Rilkes's, "gayness" is limited to the purest supposition often based on his or her social acquaintances or milieu or on his or her appeal to gay sensibility.
Gay and lesbian is broadly understood to include one or all of the following: gay professed authors, authors of gay and lesbian themes, and authors whose works are expressive of gay sensibility.
faculty.washington.edu /alvin/gayref.htm   (14472 words)

  
 GLAAD: Celebrating Role Models a Guide to Famous and Noteworthy LGBT Latinas/os
The following is a list of famous or notable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Latinos and Latinas.
Diaz is comfortable in both gay and straight roles, but most importantly he is comfortable with being a real life role model for gay actors.
Carmen is also a member of the steering committee for the New York State Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health and Human Services Network, a statewide advocacy coalition she has been instrumental in developing since 1994.
www.glaad.org /publications/resource_doc_detail.php?id=3106   (2832 words)

  
 Family Research Council: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 "FP02K"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Pro-homosexual activists contend that our schools have large numbers of students who are (or are perceived by their peers to be) gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered,[1] (GLBT or LGBT) and that such students are frequent victims of verbal or physical harassment or even acts of violence.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), for example, reports that 83 percent of the GLBT youth they surveyed reported at least verbal harassment because of their sexual orientation.
It features a schoolwide "Lesbian and Gay Pride Day," as well as a "Gay Pride Assembly." It highlights the achievements of purported homosexuals "from Michelangelo to Melissa Etheridge"[28]-- "leading the young students" as one critic said, "to the false assumption that being gay can't be bad because of the good things gay people have done."[29]
www.frc.org /get.cfm?i=WA03I34   (2849 words)

  
 Black & Gay in Corporate America
The Blacklist, an informative compilation of African-American gay and lesbian leaders, offers the names of famous entertainers, politicians, lawyers, preachers, doctors and philosophers.
For Ronald L. Moore, the highest-ranking, openly gay or lesbian African-American at a Fortune 500 company, the decision was simple.
Ronald, Rodney and Brenda are examples of gay and lesbian African-Americans who have been rewarded for being true to themselves.
www.blackstripe.com /archives/articles/bgcorp.html   (1055 words)

  
 DIRELAND: MOSCOW BANS GAY PRIDE MARCH, RELIGIOUS THREATEN VIOLENCE
Holland went on to say that while he was not gay himself, he was happy to add his voice to those raised in protest against homophobia.
Gay groups in many European countries have responded to IDAHO’s call, and major demonstrations have been scheduled for March 2 in support of the Moscow Pride
Stubb (right), an MEP from Finland (where the president of the country is the former head of Finland’s gay rights group) said that the steering committee of the Intergroup has sent written questions to the both the European Commission and the Council of Europe about the Moscow gay repressions.
direland.typepad.com /direland/2006/03/moscow_bans_gay.html   (2565 words)

  
 Language Log: October 2004 Archives
Absent from the above list are countries the USA has recently made war on (Afghanistan,.af, and Iraq,.iq), but also the two countries belonging to the original Axis of Evil who have not yet been attacked (Iran,.ir, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,.kp).
Although both involve the multiparametric measurement of metabolites they are not philosophically identical as metabonomics deals with integrated, multicellular, biological systems including communicating extracellular environments and metabolomics deals with simple cell systems and, at least in terms of published data, mainly intracellular metabolite concentrations.
Crudely put (since the details are the subject of on-going debate among semanticists and philosophers), the extension of an expression is the set of things of which it is true.
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/2004_10.html   (16308 words)

  
 List of Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The following is a list of some famous people from Scotland :
See also: List of people by nationality List of Kings of the Picts
I was on bed rest for 6 1/2 months with my second pregancy and absolutely HATED my first travel...
www.freeglossary.com /List_of_famous_Scottish_people   (522 words)

  
 Inspiration of the Bible: An Excerpt From Catholicism and Fundamentalism, The Attack on Romanism by Bible ...
Catholics can repair to the decisions of the Church, most clearly formalized at Trent and at the fourth-century councils at Hippo and Carthage; these produced lists of books that are to be accepted as inspired on the authority of the infallible Church.
Protestant pastors don't discuss history in church for a reason, a little knowledge of history and one ceases to be protestant (to lift a famous quote).
It was Athanasius who pointed out that from both the writings of the Apostles and from philosophical reasoning that Christ was equal to God the Father and therefore co-equal and co-eternal.
www.deoomnisgloria.com /archives/2004/07/inspiration_of.html   (15923 words)

  
 GovTeen Forums - How can I type this paper?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Plato was a student of Socrates and perhaps the most famous Greek philosopher of all time.
Four of his many writings emphatically espouse this idea: The Republic—which includes the famous “Allegory of the Cave”—Phaedo (which introduces the theory of Forms), The Sophist, which speaks of knowledge and being and finally, Timaeus, which presents his cosmology and cosmogony of the world.
Hermes Trismegistus, a famous Gnostic writer, also incorporated the logos into his creation-myth, where the logos is the Word of Nous (the Mind of God) (Leeming 104).
forums.govteen.com /showthread.php?t=119238   (4733 words)

  
 DC Diversity, LLC
Hugh Hefner, publically acknowledged to having gay relationships during the 1970s
William Shakespeare, Elizabethan playwright and poet (had a wife and children; his love sonnets to a man may or may not have autobiographical import.)
Persons no longer identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual
www.dcdiversity.com /v1/development.php?id=224   (1816 words)

  
 SHIT LIST...7000+ Self-Hating Israel-Threatening Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In fact, one of his most famous sculptures was that of a pig dressed like a religious Jew.
Lesbian musician who lives with her equally lesbian partner, "progressive Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu, along with their [genetically-altered?] baby daughter, Chanya Leila.
Former co-director of LGBTgrads, a club for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Graduate Students at the University of Arizona.
masada2000.org /list-TUVWXYZ.html   (8102 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.