The Real Danger to Russian Youth: Government-Condoned Gay Bashers

As a footnote to what I've just posted about the situation in Russia:

As New York Times Reports Violence vs. Gays in Russia, National Catholic Reporter Lets Hate Speech Stand

As a new work week begins: I read David M. Herszenhorn's article today in the New York Times about what's happening to gay folks in Russia right now. It's headed by one of those photos* we've come to expect as an accompaniment to these reports: a young activist who has marched for rights for LGBT citizens with his head bashed in, blood running down his face and onto his hands. Friends hold him, crying. 

That's What Hate Speech Is: Spreading Toxic Lies About Targeted Minorities ➞➞ Violence

"Huckabee later clarified that he did not mean to refer to all 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide. How nice."

A Summertime Poem: Stories Are What We Have

You catch it, you clean it:

My father's invariable rule.

No matter how bone-tired

From the day of fishing,

We scaled and gutted our fish.

Bayard Rustin Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom: Continuing Pertinence of "Time on Two Crosses"

As the week winds down, I don't want to miss taking note of this important piece of news: the White House announced two days ago that it's posthumously awarding African-American gay activist Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I've written frequently here about Rustin, who has long inspired me. Readers interested in him and anything I may have said about him can click his name in the labels below. Rustin is the source of my logo at Bilgrimage: "We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers."

Contributor to NCR Thread: Russia and Uganda Are Targeting Gays Because Rich Gay Men Want to Molest Russian and African Children

I just wrote,

More Headline News for U.S. Catholics: "Priest Hates Gays So Much, He's Kicking Out the Boy Scouts"

One week, the big headline news: "'I Love You, Too': Cardinal Dolan Says Catholic Church Must Embrace Gays and Lesbians."