Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gay? Charles Marsh Biography Raises Questions
NEW YORK (RNS) A new biography is raising questions about the life and relationships of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, an anti-Nazi dissident whose theological writings remain widely influential among...
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Who's Afraid of a Little Rainbow in Corporate America?
I'm not convinced it's quite a hot button yet, but the finger's getting pretty darn close to pushing the button marked, "It's time for Corporate America to come out!" Heck, for that matter it's time...
View Article12 Young Latina Artists Changing The Contemporary Art Landscape
When family tales are passed from generation to generation with no single point of origin, when history fails to document years of pain and struggle, when personal identity becomes too complex to...
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The Day I Took a Knife to School, and How It Changed Me
I could see the knife in the reflection of my wheelchair. It was a small, serrated kitchen knife that I'd brought in from home. It was small, but it would do the job. I looked at my crippled hands and...
View ArticleJoan Rivers Says Barack Obama Is Gay, Uses Trans Slur Against Michelle Obama
Joan Rivers took her "jokes" too far yet again this week, when she hurled a trans slur at the first lady, shortly after officiating a gay wedding at a book signing for "Diary of A Mad Diva." Inquiring...
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It's Time Kyiv Got It Right
Of course, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best. "Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was 'well timed' in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease...
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After Dark: Leo GuGu, Stylist And Nightlife Personality
This is the eighth installment in HuffPost Gay Voices Associate Editor James Nichols' ongoing series "After Dark: NYC Nightlife Today And Days Past" that examines the state of New York nightlife in the...
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'Be Masculine,' Erik Carter Project, Explores What Gay Male Masculinity Means...
A new project is in the works that seeks to explore and push the boundaries of how we understand and experience masculinity within today's 21st century queer culture. From photographer Erik Cater comes...
View ArticleEvangelism as Therapy
Encountering the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg in the D.C. Council Chambers on June 27 took me back five years to our battles over the District's marriage equality bill. This time it was a...
View ArticleLGBT: WWJD?
Great strides were made in LGBT rights this year and millions of LGBTers whooped it up at gay pride parades all around the country in celebration. But amid the usual rainbow flags, sequins, dykes on...
View Article'Just Know That I Am a Person' -- Three New Books on Transgender Issues
Rigid gender roles are irritating to many of us, damaging to society at large (whether people know it or not), and absolutely toxic to gender nonconforming children and their families. But like it or...
View ArticleWhen Your Own College Wouldn't Want You Because You're Gay: Evangelical...
It took all of 24 hours after the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision last week for conservative religionists to try seizing the opportunity to exclude people from their midst whose...
View ArticleOvercoming Desperation for Connection, Love and Marriage
In February of 2011, I went with a group of people on an RSVP gay cruise to the Caribbean. A "bon voyage" party was held on the back deck of the ship as it pulled away from port. One of the men in my...
View ArticleUnited Nations To Expand LGBT Marriage Benefits
WASHINGTON -- The United Nations Secretariat will now provide full benefits to employees in same-sex unions, regardless of whether their home country recognizes marriage equality. "Human rights are at...
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This 'Orange Is The New Black'/Disney Mashup Is Pure Magic
You've never seen Disney like this before. There's been "Game of Thrones"-inspired Disney art and even re-imaginings of what your favorite princesses would look like in the '90s, but this latest fusion...
View ArticleListening to #TheseOrgsAintLoyal
When the July 2nd 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act went by largely unacknowledged by most national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) organizations, the silence, for...
View ArticleYou Belong In The Gay Community
There's a belief that gets regurgitated again and again within the gay community. I hear it in different variations from gay men. It often comes with a force of incredible certainty. A short, yet...
View ArticleHave Gay Groups Set Their Own Trap With a Religious Exemption in ENDA?
In the wake of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, and while the White House is still drafting an executive order banning anti-LGBT discrimination among federal contractors, a lot of people are...
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Creationist Cartoon Shown In Georgia Biology Class Equates Evolution With Satan
A cartoon that suggests evolution is a work of Satan and creation is a work of Christ has angered parents and students at one Atlanta high school. The illustration, shown during a freshman biology...
View ArticleHow The International Community Helps And Hurts The LGBT Rights Movement In...
The WorldPride Human Rights Conference 2014 was hosted in Toronto from June 25th - 27th. The conference was hosted in collaboration with pride week celebrations, and it is saw a host of local,...
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