Commentary on homophobia and the origins of it in the black community and The Roots article on the spike of homophobic instances among black media figures and celebrities.
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a staunch conservative, ignites controversy and debate with his comments about homophobia in the church he made at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual conference.
Essay on white abolitionists who ignored biblical scripture on slavery to free the black slave and the hypocrisy of black Christians who use the biblical scripture to oppose same sex marriage and condemn homosexuality.
Don Lemon is an example of a black gay man—–these two identities melded together sharing space mutually by happenstance. But in his public outing of himself he didn’t share a mutual respect of both his black and gay identities. The absence of honoring one’s black identity can have the same negative impact on black gays as with not honoring and being closeted about their sexuality.
From Salon.com By Murray Richmond I preached against homosexuality, but I was wrong. As a Presbyterian minister, I believed it was a sin. Then I met people who really understood the stakes: Gay men. A recent poll shows a huge shift in American attitudes toward gay marriage, from a 32 percent approval in 2004 to 53 [...]
By: Zerlina Maxwell | theLoop21 Last month, the Obama Administration announced that the Department of Justice would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court because it was unconstitutional. Progressives and gay activists rejoiced, of course. But not everyone in the Obama coalition was happy about the move. Church going African Americans, 68 percent [...]
From UK Guardian: A group of Ugandans identified as homosexual in a newspaper article headlined “Hang Them” have won damages and a court injunction ordering the paper not to repeat the exercise, human rights groups said today. A high court judge ruled that the story in the Rolling Stone newspaper, which printed addresses and photographs of [...]
