The standard explanation is that Pride Month commemorates the date of the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, but with time and hard-won successes, its celebrations became more like LGBTQ+ expos or commercial fairs than Stonewall-commemorating fights for acceptance and liberation. The larger ones not only
There will be parades and observances across America this Memorial Day commemorating U.S. service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. But not all service members will be honored for their acts of service, bravery, and patriotism. Back in the day, LGBTQ+ service members who died
Team Trump Just Killed a Queer Health Project Critical to My Wellbeing All of us rural queers need some attention and respect I was so happy to open an email last week from a research team studying the mental health of thousands of rural queer
Former first-lady Michelle Obama openly shared her personal thinking as she has done before on an April 23rd podcast to explain why she is again saying “No.” Like anyone else, she didn’t have to explain herself even though she’s been criticized for her choices to
Pope Francis, the “People’s Pope” and one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most beloved pontiffs, who was laid to rest today after passing into the arms of God on Easter Monday at age 88, nonetheless left behind a complicated legacy on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the
A modern-day profile in courage The nation watched with surprised shock back on January 21st at the sight of a national religious leader actually standing up for those she understands her Bible says to treat with mercy in a public rebuke to Donald Trump while
That one time when I made friends with a Christian Nationalist Preached at the Unitarian Church in Charleston, S.C. Just over a decade ago, I taught religion classes at Midlands Technical College in Columbia as an adjunct professor. One year, in my comparative religion class,
If only we could embrace diversity the way Nature does Don’t get me wrong: I like all the letters that could be added to become LGBTQI+. In fact, I think there should be more — the more, the merrier. Now, that will drive copy editors
How we have misunderstood this great commandment Many pixels have been spilled over the fact that the reaction from those who oppose Donald Trump’s mind-boggling reascent to the U.S. presidency is very different now than it was in 2016. In fact, the resistance seems to
Is leaving really an option when we number in the millions? Not long after the new U.S. president spent his first day back in office signing a raft of executive orders that were designed to inspire shock and awe, I had first-hand evidence that he’d