Axios is an association for Orthodox Christians and Byzantine Rite Catholics who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender which was founded in Los Angeles in 1980.
[1][2] The organization has chapters in Washington, D.C.;[3] Atlanta;[4] New York City; Colorado; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Chicago; Boston; Florida;[5] San Francisco; Detroit; Las Vegas; and outside the U.S., in Toronto, Canada, and Australia.
[6] The Orthodox Church's teaching is that same-sex relations are sinful in the same manner as all heterosexual practice outside of marriage.
Axios also professes that members' "sexuality and love are God given and healthy,"[1] but denies any morally significant distinction ceteris paribus between heterosexual and homosexual expressions.