Our understanding of religion is invariably linked to the spiritual environment we grew up in. My views on the validity and worth of other faiths is governed in large part by the attitudes passed down to me by clergy and… Read More ›
LGBT News
Same-Sex Marriage: Conservative Edition
On paper, Paul Singer sounds like every other obscenely wealthy conservative voice in the United States. His resume reads like ½ of the New York Times obituaries ever written: Born in metro NYC he received his J.D. From Harvard Law,… Read More ›
Billboard Awards: LGBT Edition
I was struck the other day by a piece in The Huffington Post outlining the recent interstate faith dust-up going on in North Carolina (not literally struck, that would be absurd. HuffPo can’t bludgeon it’s readers…yet) As you hopefully know,… Read More ›
The President “Evolves” Just in Time: Same-Sex Marriage and The Fight for Equality
By Drew Gibson To hear President Obama and his cabinet speak of his “evolving” stance regarding gay marriage, one could be forgiven for assuming that the President was speaking of his own personal views towards the issue. Yet, in a… Read More ›
Shakespeare, LGBT & What it Means to be “Normal”
Pretty much anyone who has lived in an English speaking nation is somewhat familiar with Shakespeare. Whether you played Bottom in a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, wrote your doctoral thesis on ageism and dementia in King… Read More ›
Don’t Say Gay: The Discrimination of Silence
By Drew Gibson During my senior year of college I got a job helping start up a Boys and Girls Club in my hometown of Cincinnati. I had no prior experience working with kids, but they hired me anyway because… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 