Archive for July, 2011

Imagine if there were some kind of connection between the four big headlines of the past weekend – the “debt ceiling crisis,” the massacre of innocents in Norway, the record heat pummeling

Two contradictory forces collided in the late 1960s – the civil rights movement and the “sexual freedom” movement – and the latter won. Gay liberation soon adopted the

As it comes down to the wire on the “deal” that will rescue America from the brink of a debt default, it is downright scary to think of the grisly historical precedents for this

Understanding events leading up to and following the Stonewall riots in 1969 is critical for appraising gay culture and gay identity in the U.S. today. I was uniquely positioned to witness what was

In his “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the storied homosexual Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) penned a work for popular audiences that held specific significance for his “Uranian” (a

This writer has always been one to cheer on the efforts of legitimate news organizations, from top to the little weeklies at the bottom of the heap. But in the case of Rupert Murdoch’s empire

The United Church of Christ (the UCC) has done it again. The mainstream Protestant denomination of some 1.2 million in the U.S., the modern incarnation of its Plymouth Rock and abolitionist

The problem is that almost all gay history or criticism written since Stonewall in 1969 has been from the post-modern perspective, where all social reality is defined in terms of pleasure and power

Last weekend on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” anchor David Gregory repeatedly ignored the comments by Virginia’s U.S. Senator Jim Webb about an “Munich moment” in the

A conversation I overheard on a train from New York last week involved a very fat fundamentalist minister in shorts, and a middle aged man trying to keep up a meaningless, “manly”