Brunei Wants to Punish Gay Sex with Death by Stoning—Can Boycotts Stop It?
Paula Gerber, Monash University The sultan of Brunei has been on the throne for 52 years, making him the second-longest reigning monarch in the world, after Queen Elizabeth II. In Brunei—a rather...
View ArticleIt Takes a Lot of Courage to Be Who You Are
I was 10 years old when a monumental series of events took place some two hours north of my suburban Philadelphia town. Known as the Stonewall Riots/Uprising/Rebellion, they heralded a ‘we’re not gonna...
View ArticleEight LGBTQ-Positive Children’s Books in Time for Pride and Year-Round Learning
Pamela Malins, Western University What kind of storybooks should be read to children? This question has been contentious—so much so that when I was teaching in a public elementary school in Ontario 10...
View ArticleHow the New York Media Covered the Stonewall Riots
Chad Painter, University of Dayton The Stonewall riots were a six-night series of protests that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969, and centered around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York...
View Article3 Lessons Learned (and Shared) by a Gay Global Executive
I was the president of my high school Spanish Club during my sophomore and senior years; I was as excited about being a first-time leader as I was in exploring the Spanish-speaking countries of the...
View ArticleMoving From Shame to Pride in 50 Years
In the summer of 1969, I was 10 years old and obsessed with the NASA Apollo Program that put a man on the moon. Nothing else in the news caught my attention like the live coverage of Neil Armstrong...
View ArticleYoung LGBT Americans Are More Politically Engaged Than the Rest of Generation Z
Melissa Deckman, Washington College and Mileah Kromer, Goucher College Last year’s midterm elections were a “rainbow wave,” with more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people elected to...
View ArticleSexual Abuse Against Gay and Bi Men
— Sexual abuse against gay and bi men brings unique stigma and harm Gay, bi and trans men experience unique harms from sexual abuse and often struggle to resolve their sexuality as a result....
View ArticleWhy Ellen Is Wrong
Last week, the LGBTQ+ community had three significant stories. ◊♦◊ One was Friday being National Coming Out Day, a day for LGBTQ+ persons to tell whomever they please about their sexual orientation and...
View ArticleConversion Therapy in America
In a dismal 19 states in our Unites States of America, conversion therapy for the LGBT youth is banned. That leaves the majority of states to continue to use the misinformed and incredibly harmful...
View ArticleChristianity at the Supreme Court: From Majority Power to Minority Rights
— Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell A movement for religious rights is transforming the place of religion in American public life. From the 1960s until very recently, liberals...
View ArticleThis Year at the Supreme Court: Gay Rights, Gun Rights and Native Rights
— Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell The Supreme Court begins its annual session on Oct. 7 and will take up a series of cases likely to have political reverberations in the 2020...
View ArticleConversion Torture: The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Erasing...
Conversion therapy has long been a controversial topic in the LGBTQIA community, in religious communities, in politics, and in culture. Calling it therapy is disingenuous — it is torture, make no...
View ArticleSame-Sex Married Couple and Mothers of 4, Bravely Face Adversity and Write...
Christian author of the upcoming children’s book, Fruitful Friday, and mom of 4, Ashley DeMarcos, was in a long-term relationship with her high school boyfriend when she met her now-wife, Frances, in...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On With the Wave of GOP Bills About Trans Teens? Utah Provides...
By Kelsy Burke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Tyler Lefevor, Utah State University In 2022, Republican politicians proposed over 150 bills limiting trans rights in state legislatures across the...
View ArticleTennessee’s Drag Ban Rehashes Old Culture War Narratives
By Heather Hensman Kettrey, Clemson University and Alyssa J. Davis, Vanderbilt University Tennessee recently passed legislation that bans drag from being performed in public spaces, as well as in the...
View ArticleIt Must Be Amazing…
I arrived at the park on a beautiful sunny spring day in Dublin and while walking towards the middle of the park where I normally like to sit whenever I have a picnic with my friends, I spot a very...
View ArticleCo-Workers Could Bear Costs of Accommodating Religious Employees in the...
By Debbie Kaminer, Baruch College, CUNY The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that will transform the role of faith in the workplace in a way that could elevate the rights of religious workers...
View ArticleSegregating Bigoted Churches? I’m All for It.
A quarter of Methodist congregations abandon the church as schism grows over LGBTQ issues — USA Today. 12/20/23 When I heard that the United Methodist Church officially split over same-sex marriage...
View Article🎭 What Can We Learn From Poland’s Queer Capital, Poznań?
By Tomasz Gola In the EU’s most homophobic country, Poznań stands out as a beacon of queer acceptance and activism. Polish native Tomasz Gola explores the ways this city has become queer-friendly,...
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