Reverend Irene Monroe
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The NAACP’s LGBTQ+ acceptance has empowered the Black community
The NAACP didn’t embrace LGBTQ+ people until 2018. Here’s how it happened and why it matters…
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Will the GOP turn away from Evangelical Christians?
Or will it be that white Evangelicals need to ditch the GOP if a Trump-like candidate doesn’t emerge in the 2024 presidential election?
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Boston’s radically-inclusive “Pride for the People” parade is re-uniting the community
Boston Pride shut down in 2021 after a conflict with QPOC activists. But those activists reimagined the even to be bigger and better than ever.
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Wellesley College won’t admit trans men
As an African-American lesbian, I know what it is like to feel uncertain on campus. I’m a Wellesley College graduate.
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The scrutiny of Kamala Harris is nothing new for women of color
Republicans have made Harris the face of Biden’s immigration policy. However, Harris isn’t scoring high within her party either.
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Pope Francis’ statement that “homosexuality is a not crime” isn’t all that he said
Francis’s pronouncements don’t alter Church teachings, making him look like a church bureaucrat, a flip-flopper, a titular head.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s era of queer bashing finally comes to an end with his death
Many Catholics will recall the legacy of his papacy with mixed feelings. Queer people will remember how he persecuted LGBTQ+ people.
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Think about LGBTQ Native Americans this Thanksgiving
Homophobia is not indigenous to Native American culture. Instead, it is one of the many devastating effects of colonization and Christian missionaries.
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Rita Hester’s life mattered
In the pantheon of slain civil rights activists, Rita Hester, an African-American transgender woman, is among them.
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The geopolitics of being Brittney Griner
Her marginalized intersectional identities in America -race, class, gender, and sexuality- have highlighted the reason why she’s over there in the first place.
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Boston Pride returns to the community
Boston Pride disbanded last year, but local community members have brought Pride back to the community without all the big corporate sponsors and lavish parade floats.
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Chris Rock made a whole documentary about Black women’s hair & still insulted Jada Pinkett Smith
But Will Smith’s violence – as well as the assumption that Jada Pinkett Smith couldn’t defend herself – is part and parcel of heteropatriarchy.
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Can I be happy being nappy?
How I wear my hair is my business. So why are lawmakers deciding if it is legal for me to do so? Discrimination doesn’t stop at skin color.
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This is what it is like being Black in war-torn Ukraine right now
Sadly, racism will also be part of Ukraine’s war narrative.
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If Americans didn’t know the Holocaust was about race, they do now
Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t the only person confused.
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Americans don’t see anti-Semitism until something atrocious happens
People love dead Jews because there’s too little respect for Jewish lives in the present.
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Remembering our sister-friend bell hooks
Heartbreaking doesn’t aptly depict the enormity of her passing.
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Will Jussie Smollett’s hoax conviction affect public perception of hate crimes?
Smollett may well have suckered us all in the beginning with his hoax. However, not taking each report of a hate crime seriously would be a crime too.
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Two recent murder trials show the danger of white fragility
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted while Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William Bryan Jr. were found guilty, but the trials are merely opposite sides of the same coin.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving’s 400th anniversary with a big side of revisionist history
The Pilgrims didn’t even land at Plymouth Rock first. They landed at Provincetown, now a popular LGBTQ vacation spot.
