The Reverend Irene Monroe

The current issue is always free to everyone The Jena 6 case – in which Southern white law enforcement in Jena, Louisiana, unabashedly doled out biased treatment against six African-American high school students – harkens backs to this country’s era of Jim Crow. And it is a no-brainer as to why there was a mass…

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“Tonight was an important night in the fight for equality,” Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, who was on the panel posing questions to the candidates, said in a statement released the evening of the forum. “Unfortunately, we have more work to do. The overwhelming majority of the candidates do not support marriage equality. While…

The current issue is always free to everyone Issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation trigger a particular type of news broadcasting on the major networks. With their objective to provide viewers with “infotainment,” rather than fair and balanced reporting, discerning television viewers – straight and gay alike – are most often insulted by…

We have a crisis in the African American community: an epidemic of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youth. And they need our help. And like the AIDS epidemic ravaging the African American community my folks are not addressing this problem too. Of course, airing the problem publicly will be viewed by many…

As we commemorate the Fourth of July with festivities across the nation, many of us will not be celebrating because of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has turned back the hands of time, driving us back to this country’s horrific era of legalized segregation. In a 5-to-4 vote, a slim majority of justices…

There was a time when the only voices the American public heard on the issue of marriage equality in the African-American community were those of fire and brimstone, bible-thumping ministers. Today, their vitriol is weakening as more and more African-American elected officials and Black civil rights organizations are speaking up on our behalf. And as…

The tension that currently exists inside the worldwide Anglican Communion is undeniable. But what many don’t realize is that it is as much about how its unforeseen legacy of unbridled missionary efforts expanded into the Third World as it is about the conservative arm of the Church repudiating homosexuality. But the two feed off each…

The LGBTQ community, as well as the African-American community, lost another one of this nation’s fierce allies in the King family for queer civil rights – Yolanda King. Fondly known as Yoki, she was the oldest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King. “If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, you do not have…