Sometimes We Cannot Be Civil. But I Can.
Thanks to commenter Giliell, whose comment on this post inspired me, to Dan Fincke for much writing on this topic, and to Ethan, for discussing these issues with me last night.I am for civil...
View ArticleCongratulations, Cardinal!
It’s not often that I congratulate Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, but I feel I must, in this case, extend my warmest congratulations to Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who won the coveted “Bigot of...
View ArticleThe Wages of Prejudice
It wasn’t long ago that gay marriage was a wedge issue that consistently helped Republicans turn out the vote. It was part of the Republican playbook to plonk a gay marriage amendment on the ballot to...
View ArticleGeorge Takei Enchants NPR, Changes My Life
The first time I met George Takei I was too terrified to speak. My brother had to drag me toward the desk where he was sitting, and took on the responsibility to communicate that we were hoping he...
View ArticleFreedom of Speech and Public Schools
A recent fight over freedom of speech in schools has prompted me to air out my thoughts on this complex and important topic. The Boston Spirit reports on the controversy (03.02.2013):The American Civil...
View ArticleI.D.I.C., Find Out What it Means to Me: A Trekkie’s Search for Self Love
Since Star Trek: Into Darkness is launching this week, I thought I’d repost this article I wrote for In Our Words, a Queer collective Blog. It’s not appropriate for kids!They told me not to visit the...
View ArticleWorld Voice Day – Poetry and Prose
For World Voice Day 2014 – a celebration of the voice in all its facets – I’ve recorded some selections of poetry and prose requested by friends. There is some sad stuff, some happy stuff, some...
View ArticleMarriage, Equality, and Radical Queer Politics – Part One
This is a two-part post. The second part can be found here.It seems every day brings news of a new victory for marriage equality advocates: yesterday Kentucky joined Indiana and Utah as the most recent...
View ArticleMarriage, Equality, and Radical Queer Politics – Part Two
In the first part of this post I gave a sketch of my personal and political background, and enumerated a number of areas where I am in full agreement with many radical queer activists who raise...
View ArticleLove, Lust, and the Bible: A Further Response to Matthew Vines
Matthew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian (and subject of yesterday’s post), kindly responded to my critique on Facebook:Thank you for writing this post and for sharing your perspective about...
View ArticleSmash the Closet!
This was the day I came out, at Cafe Lafitte in Exile in New Orleans, Louisiana.It took me ten years to come out. Between the time I sat, crying, in an Italian restaurant at the age of 17, telling my...
View ArticleSinging in the Shadow of Pulse – Dies Irae
This post is the second of a three part cycle on the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses Festival 2016. Part One is here. Part Three is here. It’s the end of the second full day of the GALA...
View ArticleSinging in the Shadow of Pulse – Dona Nobis Pacem
This post is the third of a three part cycle on the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses Festival 2016. Part One is here. Part Two is here. It’s two days after GALA. The Festival is over, but my...
View Article“Best Choice” Not the Best Choice for St. Louis-Area Public Schools
A Double Shot of Paranoia I’m at Starbucks to meet Joy Maxwell. Maxwell is Curriculum Coordinator for the increasingly controversial “Best Choice” sex education program, a project operated by ThriVe...
View ArticlePFLAGGED
I experience a lot of emotional situations in my work. I’m a clergy person, and I sit with people as they wrestle with questions of life and death. I’m an activist, and I have had more than my share of...
View ArticleFive Things I Learned from Cleve Jones
This Pride Cleve Jones came to St. Louis. The Cleve Jones. Cleve Jones of the AIDS Memorial Quilt and When We Rise, legendary LGBTQIA+ activist and total badass. He was in town to be Grand Marshal of...
View ArticleQueers: Our Worth is Independent of Theology
This week a conservative evangelical Christian group released the “Nashville Statement,” a transparently homophobic and transphobic screed designed to give theological cover to those who wish to...
View ArticleMassResistance: The Hate Group Targeting St. Louis Children
In the Parkway School District “MassResistance Missouri,” the local branch of a national hate group, is trying to sway school board elections to promote unsafe, homophobic, Christian-based sex...
View ArticlePete Buttigieg and Me – On Politics and the Personal
In Pete Buttigieg, I see myself. We are both white, cisgender, gay men in our mid-thirties, straddling the line between Gen-X and Millennial. We both come from well-educated families: Buttigieg’s...
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