What friends are for: they offer the noblest and most delightful of gifts
Article Abstract:
Friendships are usually taken for granted and relegated only to spare times. Otherwise, most of people's time are spent with other things such as family, work and love affairs. However, according to a human relations expert, a friendship is the most important relationship.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1993
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Menfriends: male friendship and social change
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Men usually are afraid to cultivate deep and caring friendships with each other because they think society will laugh at them or think that they are gay. However, a human relations expert thinks that like-minded men who become intimate friends can change that attitude.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1993
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We are family: why gays and lesbians build strong bonds
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Anthropologist Kath Weston wrote in her book titled 'Families We Choose' that gays and lesbians have closer and stronger friendships because of their natural family's homophobia. They look for and form families of their choice.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1993
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