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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…