Is the house that King built trying to end it all?
I would hope that as thousands of my fellow GLBTQ citizens celebrate this day for which they have so long worked, and so hard, that they not lose sight of the cost which has come with it.
Demagoguing a legal scholar in the name of "religious liberty."
Vatican’s Come-Hither to Anglicans: A Theological Scandal
While the Catholic Church is touting its warm welcome to conservative Anglicans, it’s also a simple union of those who reject gay and women’s ordination.
After teaching them that the Black Church is their family, their home, our churches are failing our children in their time of need.
Respectability and Its Discontents: Missing the Louche, Loud, and Lovely World of Sexual Outlawry
In this meditation on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots an ordained minister, while eulogizing his own outlawry, notes that God’s goodness is evident in the way in which new and seriously maladjusted queer youth are still rising up to bring new energy and edge to the movement.
Stonewall of the “Nones”: The Revolution Won't be Homogenized
What would “a tranny hustler,” peeking through a rip in the stocking of space-time, think of our world 40 years later? What will the next Consciousness Revolution look like?
Stonewall, 40 Years Later, What Has Been Achieved?
Over the past few decades a form of “tolerance” has been achieved in many parts of American life. What sort of achievement is this?
Gay Ain’t the New Black, But…
With a new essay on black, gay civil rights giant, Bayard Rustin, Rev. Sekou makes the case for comparisons between the gay rights and Civil Rights movements.
Any faith-based plan to combat poverty, including Obama's, is threatening to the rights of poor LGBTQ Americans, who have always been discriminated against by religious organizations...
“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”
In the spirit of the Black Panthers or the Jewish Defense League, The Pink Pistols advocate guns for gays, shouting “Armed gays don’t get bashed” and “Pick on someone your own caliber.”
When police brutally beat an African American transsexual the black media turns away. But homo- and transphobia in the media hurts the entire community...