Category: Inclusion

LGBTQ History Month is young, too. It’s a public month-long celebration and acknowledgment of our contribution to American History. Just twenty-three years old it was first celebrated in 1994, as an outgrowth from National Coming out Day (October 11) founded in 1988.

“Men on Boats” is an eye-opening and provocative comedy/drama about the polemics of white cisgender male power and privilege to conquer the wilderness girded by their unflinching God-given belief in the 19th century doctrine of Manifest Destiny to do so.

This year DignityUSA held its 23rd biennial national conference in Boston from July 6-9. Its theme was “A Place at the Table,” challenging the Catholic Church and themselves to practice a ministry of radical inclusion.

the notion that it is acceptable for African Americans to use the n-word with each other yet it is considered racist for others outside the race to use it unquestionably sets up a double standard. And because language is a public enterprise, the notion that one ethnic group has property rights to the term is an absurdly narrow argument. Moreover, the fact that African Americans have appropriated the n-word does not negate our long history of internalized self-hatred.

While it should come as no surprise that Trump's prescription to 'Make America Great Again' precludes Mexicans, Muslims, people of color, immigrants, women, the physical challenged, to name a few, he's waging a war against us, too.

Sadly, the growing distance between our larger white LGBTQ community and LGBTQ communities of color is shown by how, for an example, a health issue like HIV/AID that was once an entire LGBTQ community problem is now predominately communities of color.

Segregation in this city is not only along race lines but also class. Poor working-class whites and white immigrants do not experience the fullness their white skin privilege would abundantly afford them if they too were part of Cambridge’s professional and/or monied class.

Given the violent nature of the game of football and Hernandez’s personal acts of violence-indicted on charges for first-degree murder without the possibility of parole - one wonders how did the John 3:16 verse factored in his life?

The ad was not only tone deaf in culturally appropriating the Black Lives Matter struggle, but it was also an ill-conceived ambitious project overreaching to tap into a multicultural new market - Millennials.