I have a good friend who dreads the holiday season, saying: “The holidays are upon my a##.” But it’s here anyway with all those upcoming expectations of Norman-Rockwell-print warm, loving, accepting images of Thanksgivings, Hanukkahs, and Christmas celebrations where families gather together to try to
After that election, how are you feeling? As for me, I’ll be processing my feelings for some time to come. I’ve noticed that they parallel the well-known seven stages of grief — shock and disbelief, denial, guilt and bargaining, sadness and regret, and anger. I
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,
There are a lot of days of remembrance throughout the year for people who identify with letters in LGBTQI+++. And that seems to be how it should be, for in the midst of that larger demographic there are subgroups who we don’t want to get
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
Why the proximity of the two holidays should provoke reflection This July 4th, America for the 248th time celebrates its independence from British rule. But the proximity of Juneteenth, now a federal holiday since President Biden designated it as such in 2023, should force Americans
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
As I watched the Atlanta Pride parade broadcast on TV last fall (we march in October thanks to a summer drought in 2007 that rendered the parade’s endpoint, Piedmont Park, a scorched wasteland), I was struck by a couple of things at once. For starters,
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