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	Outing, Queen Latifah and Hip-Hop Article Date: 08/25/2010 Long before the African- American celebrity gossip, news, popular culture and entertainment blog Bossip.com outed Dana Owens a.k.a Queen Latifah with photos of her and gal pal and “personal trainer” Jeanette Jenkins in a tender embrace not for public viewing, the century-long reliable "chitlin' circuit" told us our closeted Qu... [full article]
	Ex-Gay Donnie McClurkin at Boston's Gospelfest Article Date: 07/16/2010 Every year Mayor Tom Menino's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events puts on its annual Boston GospelFest at City Hall Plaza. And because the Gospelfest is a public and taxpayer-funded community event, it’s open to all -- even its African American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. But with Pastor Donnie ... [full article]
	Are We Not Patriots Too? Article Date: 07/01/2010 This weekend we celebrate July 4, with rounds of festivities marking our nation’s 234 years of independence.But this country’s need to showcase her indomitable spirit of heroism continues to come at the expense of basic freedoms and protections denied to us lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans. ... [full article]
	Ted Haggard's New Church of Homophobia Article Date: 06/16/2010 To the disbelief of everyone -- straight and gay -- the Rev. Ted Haggard, former anti-gay megachurch pastor who was excommunicated for soliciting sex from a male prostitute, is starting a new church. But this one won't blossom to be like the 14,000-member New Life Church he founded decades ago in Colorado Springs. As a matter of-fact, Haggard's Ame... [full article]
	A Pride Event that Doesn't Make Us Proud Article Date: 06/10/2010 Pride parades will be taking place all over the country this month. As we all rev up for this year's festivities, so, too, the fault lines of race, gender identity and class will emerge as well. In addition to Gay Pride events, there will be a segment of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) population attending Black Gay ... [full article]
	Obama Shifting Responsibly for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” From Himself Article Date: 06/04/2010 Soon after Obama’s inauguration in 2009, the LGBTQ community waited anxiously to hear that steps were being made to repeal DADT. But on June 8 of that year when the Supreme Court refused to review the Pentagon policy that prohibits LGBTQ servicemembers to serve openly in the military, Obama’s people added salt to the wounds of our LGBTQ... [full article]
	Rev. Irene Monroe on Success in America: Cheating Harvard Article Date: 05/19/2010 Rev. Irene Monroe writes about the intersection of LGBT rights, race and religion. Today she weighs in on the idea of success fostered in America that culminated in one young man's near seamless ability to cheat his way through Harvard.... [full article]
	Country Star Chely Wright Comes Out and Joins Faith in America Article Date: 05/05/2010 For months it was rumored that country music singer-songwriter Chely Wright would announce that she’s a lesbian and appear on the cover of People magazine. And this is the week, the same time she launches her seventh album, "Lifted Off the Ground" and her memoir, "Like Me."... [full article]
	Gay Community Loses a Black Civil Rights Ally and Friend in Dorothy Height Article Date: 04/22/2010 Civil Rights activist Dorothy Irene Height died on April 20th at the age of 98. A prominent African American with civil rights allies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community including Corretta Scott King, Julian Bond, and John Lewis, to name a few, Height wasn't profiled and honored enough.... [full article]
	The Catholic Church Needs its Gay Priests Article Date: 04/15/2010 The Catholic Church is running damage control. Pope Benedict XVI won't resign and he can't be defrocked. And Catholics worldwide are enraged. The Church now needs a quick out, an easy solution and a fall guy to tamp down our rage and to explain away its decades-long pedophilic problem. Just recently the Vatican's second-highest authority, Cardi... [full article]
	ObamaCare Passed But Passed Up Reproductive Justice Article Date: 03/24/2010 Eight million more women than men voted for Obama for president. And one of the reasons we did was because of his purported position on reproductive justice issues like abortion and emergency contraception (EC). But with the stroke of 20 pens that is just what President Obama did, when he signed into law on March 23, the long awaited "P... [full article]
	Black Motherhood Lost at the Oscars Article Date: 03/10/2010 Rev. Irene Monroe, a lesbian mom, weighs in on Mo'Nique's Oscar win and what it means. The historical legacy of the devaluation and demonization of black motherhood was both applauded and rewarded at this years Oscars. And the point was clearly illustrated with Mo’Nique, capturing the gold statue for best supporting actress in Lee Danie... [full article]
	Black and Queer in Nazi Germany!? Black History Month Continues... Article Date: 02/19/2010 Missing from the annals of African American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and "queer." Valaida Snow, captured in Nazi- occupied Copenhagen under the umbrella of lesbian and interned in a concentration camp for nearly two years, is one such story forgotten every Black ... [full article]
	Honoring Notorious Gladys Bentley Article Date: 02/12/2010 In celebrating Black History Month, I want to personally celebrate the courage and strength of sistah-warrior Gladys Bentley (1907-1960). Bentley a 250-pound African-American lesbian (who today we would consider transgender) was known as "America's Greatest Sepia Piano Player" and the "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs." Her fall from the e... [full article]
	Do We Still Need to Celebrate Black History Month? Article Date: 02/03/2010 February 1 begins Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African-Americans. Within the African- American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, Black History Month has always come under criticism. ... [full article]
	Will Faith-Gased Agencies Help Haiti's Gay Community? Article Date: 02/01/2010 Since the world community has descended on Haiti with relief aid in response to the January 12th earthquake, I am wondering how Haiti's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities are being helped. ... [full article]
	Pat Robertson’s Theodicy on Haiti's 'Pact to the Devil' Article Date: 01/22/2010 Religion-based bigotry has been the mainstay of Rev. Pat Robertson's bully pulpit. While scientists explain Haiti’s recent natural disaster as an earthquake due to a fault it sits on along the border between two large tectonic plates that slide past each other, Robertson explains the disaster as “Some... [full article]
	Would Martin Luther King have Spoken Out for LGBTQ Rights? Article Date: 01/13/2010 As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day 2010 we no longer have to hold King up to a God-like standard. As I comb through numerous books and essays learning more about King's philandering, sexist attitude about women at home and in the movement, and his relationship with Bayard Rustin, I am wondering would ... [full article]
	Black Gays Invited to the White House Article Date: 01/06/2010 Rev. Irene Monroe shares her experience as one of the a group of black lesbians and gays who were invited to the White House. 'Just as my enslaved ancestorscould have never imagined an African American family residing in the White House, nor could my African American lesbian, gay bisexual transgender and queer (LGB... [full article]
	The Episcopal Church's Racial and Queer Divide Article Date: 12/10/2009 On December 5th cheers reverberatedacross the country with the news that at the 114th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles two women were elected as bishops -- Rev. Diane Jardine Bruce of California and Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool of Maryland. While both elections bring their own controve... [full article]
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