Showing posts with label coming out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coming out. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

"The Saint of Dry Creek": Story Corps Remembers Stonewall Uprising

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Watch “The Saint of Dry Creek,” as part of our #StonewallOutLoud initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Pride Month: Remembering Ellen Degeneres' Coming Out on National T.V. Twenty Years Ago

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Pride month is a good time to point you to the commemoration Ellen Degeneres did on 28 April of her historic coming-out episode twenty y...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Krzysztof Charamsa Publishes Book Explaining Choice to Come Out as a Gay Priest: The First Stone: I, Gay Priest, and My Rebellion Against the Church’s Hypocrisy

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As many of you will know, shortly before the Catholic Synod on the Family opened, a Polish priest, Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, who ...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Ex-Gay Activist Peterson Toscano Launches New Blog: Combining Climate Change Activism with Queer Activism

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "Born This Way"

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In the chapter of  John Corvino's book What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013) entitled "Born This Way,...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

For Your Weekend Viewing: Hero Reporter Dave Hansen on "Ellen Show"

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Dave Hansen says that the positive feedback he's gotten from across the U.S. for his support of Michael Sam gives him hope for the fu...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Bridegroom: An Interview with the Filmmaker, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

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A quick footnote to my posting last week  about Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's wonderful new documentary Bridegroom, focusing on the...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Bridegroom: The Love Story of Tom Bridegroom and Shane Crone, a Primer about Gay Youth, Coming Out, and Religion in the Heartland

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I mentioned several days ago that the Oprah Winfrey network had aired several programs about being gay in America. One of the films ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

For National Coming Out Day: "What If I Told You God Is Gay?"

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For National Coming Out Day today, a powerful poem by University of North Carolina drama student Elliott Darrow, which has recently gone...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Commentary on Jason Collins's Coming Out: Importance of Hearing Gay Voices Talking About Gay Experience (with Arkansas Footnote)

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A whole row of statements today at Huffington Post about the significance of NBA player Jason Collins's game-changing decision t...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Frank Bruni on Why the Gays Don't Just Shut Up About It

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Frank Bruni on why those of us who are gay just don't shut up about it already:
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out, and Chris Broussard Spouts Bible Verses: Bible-Based Anti-Gay Bullying Ramping Up

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It's interesting, isn't it, that the immediate and instinctual response of men like Chris Broussard to NBA player Jason Coll...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Jamie Manson on the "Dark Side" of Proposals to End Mandatory Celibacy: Whither Gay Priests?

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To my mind, the operative paragraph in Jamie Manson's recent wise warning  to Catholics in favor of the option of married clergy ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Headlines I Never Expected: "Congrats to Jim Nabors and His Husband!"

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This is a headline I don't think I ever expected to live long enough to see:
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Texas Says It's Going to Get Better

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A well-done and moving video from LGBT officers of the Austin, Texas, police department, uploaded to the It Gets Better project .  Hat ti...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Book Notes: James Matthew Green's Northern Lights

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And since I'm writing today about themes of remembrance, about our search for meaning in the lives of those who have gone before...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Importance of Anderson Cooper's Coming Out Statement

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Chad Griffin, Human Rights Campaign, and the Arkansas Connection

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Here's one reason I'm happy that the Human Rights Campaign has chosen Arkansas native Chad Griffin to be its new head: when y...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Peter Cameron's Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Brief Review

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I'm not entirely sure why I don't blog more often about novels I happen to be reading.  I do  read far more than the dry and ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Steve Kornacki's Coming-Out Story: Required Reading for Those Seeking Understanding

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For inspiration, Steve Kornacki's painful, humorous, insightful coming-out story at Salon yesterday is a must-read.  And for und...