Remarks prepared for a Transgender Day of Remembrance service in Atlanta, Ga. Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary siblings: Today, we gather with a shared purpose, unified in spirit and heart, as we mark Trans Day of Remembrance. It’s a day to honor the lives lost, to
Elections always bring out the crazies, but this U.S. election cycle has been especially intense and filled with awful crazy stuff, including harmful and dangerous rhetoric. As I’m sure you’ve seen by now, especially if you live in one of the handful of battleground states,
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
Dear Bro, Have you ever thought about the things we know now only by our efforts to understand ourselves and our environment? For instance, when I think about what our mother could have shared with me about the process of becoming a young woman (and
Preached at Gentle Spirit Christian Church, Atlanta, Ga. Reading: Mark 6:14-29 Today’s Gospel reading takes us to one of those biblical scenes that has become such the stuff of legend that most people are able to recite, or at least reference, parts of it whether
A conservative backlash against bisexual, transgender, and gay people is growing so strong that random street violence is surging in the U.S., the U.K., and elsewhere. Kids are learning hatred from parents and churches and then bullying and beating up LGBTQ+ classmates. Queer adults are
Dear Bro, In the dictionary there are two distinct definitions of perspective. One deals with the way we can draw an object to make it look like it has dimensions — in other words, so the eye will perceive, say, an object in a picture
Is this just a blunder, or has the Pope revealed his true colors? Pope Francis sent global shock waves when the news broke that he used the highly offensive F-word frociaggine (“faggotness” in Italian) in a closed-door conversation at the Italian Bishops’ Conference. During a
My home state of Massachusetts celebrated 20 years of marriage equality on May 17, thanks to the landmark decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that preceded by 11 years the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex marriage