Category: Inclusion

The UMC is contradictory in its policies concerning LGBTQ worshippers. While it states that we have and are of the same sacred worth as heterosexuals, and that it is committed to the ministry of all people regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation, the church also views queer sexualities as sinful.

On this year’s anniversary of "Brown v. Board of Education”, African Americans and Latino Americans continue to attend not only segregated schools, but they also attend high-poverty urban ones with metal detectors.

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. The fact that African-Americans have appropriated the n-word does not negate our long history of self-hatred.

While his recent tome might bring a sigh of relief to some Catholics, like divorced parishioners, for the LGBTQ community, however, Francis’ message and tone to us are in lockstep with church doctrine - and that message is anything but pastoral.

With Massachusetts lauded as one of the most pro-LGBTQ states in the country my lawmakers have disappointed me with their political foot dragging and staling on our “Bathroom Bill”.

The play opens with a precocious boy querying his mother about his genitalia. Showing her unease in having an explicit sit-down conversation with her son about his sex parts, the mother euphemistically tells him that his penis is called 'bootycandy.'

Boston was once an intellectual haven with activist circles of feminism in its heyday. Today it is mostly a forgotten history, which is one of the reasons for “Left on Pearl” documentary.

The last time an African American lesbian was the protagonist in a novel was in Ann Allen Shockley’s 1982 “Say Jesus and Come to Me.” What shocked and awed readers about this main character is that she is also an itinerant minister.

one of the most frequently asked questions about Harper Lee was about her sexual orientation. Lee obviously wanted this answer hidden and on the down low from the public, but her reclusiveness and annoyance with the question only contributed to it.