What are you up to this election season? Are you paying any attention? Are you working for your favorite candidates? Are you planning to vote and maybe even bring someone with you to the polls? Or have you given up on politics? Have you fallen
How to stop indulging the bigots in our midst If there’s anything that’s traditional, even a part of many historically “traditional family values,” it’s prejudices and the accompanying bigotry. Of course, bigots are really, really offended when someone points out their bigotry. And their hope
Since abolition, women have led the fight for rights we now take for granted When those rich white males turned the Declaration of Independence’s “All men are created equal” into the original U.S. Constitution, they took “men” quite literally. Their constitution made landed white men
Here’s how to celebrate a healthy, bigot-free Pride By now everyone should know that June is celebrated as LGBTQ+ “Pride Month.” That’s well-established in cultures across the globe whether anyone else likes it or not. Anti-LGBTQ+ forces use the public celebration to their advantage —
Today’s LGBTQ+ youth are just the latest generation to experience 2,500 years of elder hand-wringing Every generation that has ever existed on the planet, it appears, has complained about its younger generations. In the 4th century B.C.E., to cite one example, Aristotle wrote: [Young people]
Why make religious scapegoats of other people? Have you ever thought about the fact that “religious” people all over the world — I mean everyday people, not elite thinkers or those who use religion to push their career and political agendas — care about the
How many of those supporting LGBTQ+ people thought that achieving marriage equality back in 2015 was the end of the struggle for equality? Not Michelangelo Signorile in his wisely skeptical warning It’s Not Over, written in that same year. He warned us that a resulting
I speak for this couple before us to say “Welcome” to every one of you here at this important occasion on this special day. We are here to witness these two people who are not only in love but who have chosen to love one
Are you as tired as I am of all the hocus-pocus used to attack LGBTQ+ people by those who are just plain prejudiced? Are you sick of all the pseudo-science bigoted people spout to project their own issues on LGBTQ+ human beings? Then you’re not
How to avoid the right’s toxic terminology Something that to us might seem small, maybe even picky, is one of the most crucial, yet easiest, things we can personally do to change the discourse in our country. The right-wing learned to do this long before