Does the society you live in allow you to openly love your partner? For myself, residing in the United States, the answer still is not clear. Compared to Islamic countries, I have the freedom and opportunity to remain true to myself in a public and private setting. I can talk to my friends about relationships, go to a bar holding the hand of another man, and even sit in a dimly lit restaurant on a date without observers looking twice. Homosexuals in more repressed parts of the world may not even believe that possible. The video below gives an example of the barbaric treatment homosexuals have to go through once "outed" in Islamic countries.
WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC & VIOLENT IMAGES.
Although I personally have never experienced such brutality, I have been counseled, prescribed medication, and even desired for their to be a cure (before I came to terms with who I am). I can not say for certain that if I had been at Brigham Young University in the 1970's that I wouldn't have taken part in their "aversion therapy" study (they preferred to call it a search for a 'cure'). (Mormon Electric Aversion Therapy - ABC News Story)
Even after the latest victory over Proposition 8 in California, we can see religiosity and religious condemnation in signs like this one:
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