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“You Are God’s Child and You Are Not a Mistake!”

My Mentor of blog writing says one should never repeat a blog, but in view of some of the emails we received from young people this week at the church, I really feel a need to give this witness again. 

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on June 1, 2012 at 9:44am — No Comments

belting out "faggots" at Independence Hall

Once upon a time and long ago in a place not far away, pride used to be called “Gay Pride” and it wasn’t a whole month, it was a day, a very special day to commemorate a riot that happened during the last weekend of June in a city called New York. 

 

Queens and fags and dykes rebelled on that long hot night. When the cops didn’t get…

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Added by tommi avicolli mecca on May 31, 2012 at 8:11am — No Comments

Democrat Janice Covington fights to be North Carolina’s first transgender delegate.

Covington has thrown her hat into the political arena, running to be one of North Carolina’s 152 delegates to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Covington, should she win a seat in Raleigh would enter a very exclusive club as one of only a handful of openly transgender people who have been elected as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. While even a Covington candidacy, let alone a win, can't help but raise transgender awareness, Covington has a platform that goes…

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Added by Janice Covington on May 30, 2012 at 7:30am — No Comments

Put Your Work on Frequently Felt!

Put Your Work on Frequently Felt!…



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Added by MChristian on May 24, 2012 at 1:51pm — No Comments

GLBT Live Chats with the Pros At The Erotica Readers & Writers Association!











GLBT erotica is…
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Added by MChristian on May 24, 2012 at 1:25pm — No Comments

Eleven Words

Have you ever had one of those times when you felt like no matter what you did, no one was thankful or appreciative of the amount of effort it took to do what you did?

 

Maybe at some point in your life you took on a project that…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on May 18, 2012 at 10:48am — No Comments

Marriage Equality Roller Coaster

I woke up to the news that North Carolina voters, by a 61 to 39% margin, voted on Tuesday to enshrine discrimination into their constitution. State law already established a one-man-one-woman limit on marriage, but that wasn’t enough for the religious extremists.

 

Legal experts are fairly…

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Added by marygriggs on May 9, 2012 at 8:00pm — No Comments

The Lesbian Agenda

I attended the Louisiana Rally Against the War on Women today in Baton Rouge and was impressed by the speakers who addressed many facets of women's rights--from violence against women and victim blaming to reproductive choices; from abortion to the Equal Rights Amendment. While the numbers of those gathered did not break a hundred, it was great to be a part of a nationwide movement to unite women against the attacks from religious extremists and legislators. For more information on the…

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Added by marygriggs on April 28, 2012 at 7:30pm — No Comments

We Are Not a Sin

First let me just say after a power flicker while in the middle of writing this blog, the term “Jesus saves” has new meaning for me this morning.

 

I want to say to my sisters and brothers in the LGBTQIA community who have been…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on April 20, 2012 at 2:55pm — No Comments

AMPUTATION AND NOVEL PUBLICITY: AUTHOR M. CHRISTIAN THREATENS ONE FOR THE OTHER



PRESS RELEASE: In what is clearly an act of pure desperation, author M. Christian has threatened to amputate part of one finger to publicize his new novel, …

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Added by MChristian on April 10, 2012 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Inclusivity, More then A Word

Inclusivity and religion, inclusivity and Christianity…I know those two words in today’s world seem to reside side by side.  We know in our heart one cannot…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on April 6, 2012 at 4:29pm — No Comments

The Sin of Superiority

Let us start with a definition according to “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on March 23, 2012 at 1:15pm — No Comments

    As I write this blog my heart is broken, my mind is filled with rage and my emotions are all over the block. The cause is simple, our LGBTQI youth are being let down by the very people who ought…

 

 

As I write this blog my heart is broken, my mind is filled with rage and my emotions are all over the block.



The cause is simple, our LGBTQI youth are being let down by the very people who ought to be holding them up and supporting them. Once again, the youth of our community are being kicked…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on March 9, 2012 at 11:24am — No Comments

Dear Rev. Turner…

A few years back a good friend of mine who also is a pastor lamented to me one day he wished the “gay community” would just not be so “in your face” about our issues.  We had a pretty loud conversation, fight, and argument that ended with me stomping out of his office and back to mine slamming the door as I…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on February 24, 2012 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Post-Occupy; Defending Bank Robberies & Other Militant Direct Action

Recently Chris Hedges made ripples through the Left with his article that demonized the (incredibly passive and mild) Blac Block anarchist tactics of direct action. Well, Chris ain't seen nothing yet. The divide between the rich and poor is expanding at an ever increasing rate as the wealthy and upper-middle class sit on-top of the labor of working class and poor people. As a radical Communist queer, I have to ask myself, what types of actions against this 'State' of affairs are useful to…

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Added by Tony Cochran on February 22, 2012 at 6:17pm — No Comments

A Plea to White People.

Are despair, hopelessness and depression direct products and functions of the American imperial project? Does the systemic violence of the Empire, at home and abroad, also have a psychic element? What is the psycho-social results of 'inter-generational trauma' in America, namely for the descendants of Slaves and Indigenous peoples? How do we grapple with these intense anti-democratic, anti-person structures and the attitudes they create and that help to - in circular fashion - reinforce the…

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Added by Tony Cochran on February 18, 2012 at 8:42pm — No Comments

Happy Valentine's Day!

It is Valentine’s Day, a modern holiday that many people believe was created by the sugar and greeting card industry to support heteronormative pair bonding. The LGBT community should not feel excluded from this day of saccharine sentimentality; instead we should learn the history behind this…

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Added by marygriggs on February 14, 2012 at 2:03am — No Comments

The Guise of Family Values

What shall we write about this week?  It is not like there isn’t a whole mess of topics to pick from.

 

There is the whole Karen Handle power grab under the guise of “family…

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Added by Rev. Paul M. Turner on February 10, 2012 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Thank you, Chris Hedges

"Here’s to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know…

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Added by Tony Cochran on February 9, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Don't support Human Rights Campaign!

When a group of us calling ourselves Occupy the Castro took over the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) store on December 3 to read a proclamation that the group needed to make housing, jobs and healthcare for all priorities on both the national and local levels, some folks were quick to criticize us. 

Why target a national gay organization that does some good things? these people asked.

The question was answered a little over a month later…

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Added by tommi avicolli mecca on February 8, 2012 at 9:02am — No Comments

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