Category: Inclusion

The reality here is that as quietly as the Church has tried to keep it, the Catholic Church is a gay institution. And that is not a bad thing!

Fielding questions and concerns expressed from the audience highlighted how women and people on the margins have the most to lose in a country pivoting away from their full protections and participation in a multicultural democracy.

I never thought a 2016 presidential election would have me not only time travel back to the 1950s and 1960s, but reside there at least for the next four years.

The Scottsboro Boys is about the imprisonment of nine teenage boys, ranging in ages from twelve to nineteen, falsely accused of raping two white women, a repeated racial trope in American history.

Like its pagan roots, Halloween provides an outlet for us cross-dressing and gender-bending LGBTQ outsiders who are ostracized by mainstream society.

October is Domestic Awareness Month, and within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color, not enough attention, education, intervention and advocacy is given to this issue.

The perception that all a white politician needs to do is merely show up the Sunday before the Tuesday we cast our ballots is not only a hackneyed campaign strategy in 2016, it’s also a clear indication that this politician has nary a clue nor a sincere concern for the parishioners he stands before.

In expressing her enthusiasm for former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s nomination Obama brought civility back into the public discourse. And, in Michelle’s inimitable classy and cool style she took down Trump in the most elegant way: she criticized the Republican presidential candidate without once uttering his name.

“This is a time when we need the community front and center in this struggle for both our survival and change, because their African-American LGBTQ brothers and sisters stood by you with marriage equality and other issues. We need now you front and center because we are hurting.”