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A Color-Blind America? Don’t Fall For The Okey-Doke

By LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

…, noticing the dramatic, drumroll sounds that preceded the announcement of breaking news, and hearing Wolf Blitzer say, “And CNN can now project that Barack Obama, 47 years old, will become the President-Elect of the United States…” I read on the screen “Barack Obama Elected President” and felt the pandemonium of celebration around me. The palpable energy that had until that moment felt like an undercurrent became a gushing waterfall, some of whic…

Alienating Even the Sadistic Trumpian Right, How Did Kristi Noem Miscalculate So Badly With Her Puppy Killing Story?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…pponents. Only Reynold Nesiba, a Democrat in the South Dakota Senate, told CNN “This is a rumor that’s been around for years about her acting in anger to put down a dog.” Nesiba later speculated that Noem wanted to get ahead of the story in case she was for vice president, but even this contradicts the allegation that it had ever been used against her in a campaign. Apart from common sense, Noem should also have known from recent history that Amer…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…no judgment. They have their belief system and I have mine and I’m living true to mine.” Brunei: US officials discuss human rights, death-to-gays penal code U.S. officials, including the ambassador to Brunei, discussed human rights issues with Bruneian officials at a November 30 meeting in London. The new penal code includes a death penalty for those convicted of sodomy. Northern Ireland: Legal challenge to marriage ban moves forward Two gay coupl…

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ect. And that is no easy maneuver in the intensely polarized current media world. In a world where Vogue’s choice of a Palestinian-American cover model for its anniversary issue gets everyone all riled up and an Israeli model’s Facebook posts on the conflict are put under scrutiny, it is probably no surprise that BBC reporters and CNN anchors can face professional consequences for making any kind of statement about the conflict. In the Jewish medi…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s, a Roman Centurion and gentile, as an allegory of the kind of taboo- and rule-breaking that he says should, but does not, mark the treatment of LGBT Catholics by the hierarchy and anti-gay Catholics. Here’s an excerpt that talks about the global aspect of these debates: …One of the things people say is: “All this about LGBT people is a decadent Western value and we should defend ourselves against it.” But the people they are defending themselves…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 states and D.C., Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico City, French Guiana, the French islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy and the Caribbean Netherlands t…

Interview With a Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…ay? A: When’s the last time you saw concentration camps for Muslims on the news? But that’s happening, in Myanmar. Q: So you’re saying Muslims are innocent? A: I’m saying the world is a complicated place. And just as I condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo I condemn attacks on all people. I fear what this selectivity means. It betrays a structural bias so powerful we can barely see it. Q: Are you saying this attack is justified? A: No. Of course…

The H Word

By Shalom Goldman

…re. They were victims of ‘a holocaust.’ But this was not the Biblical reference invoked in the initial Jewish discourse about the victims of the Nazis. Another Biblical word, ‘Shoah,’ denoting total catastrophe, was used (in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish circles one heard the word ‘Hurban,’ or destruction, the word used to describe the destruction of the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem). When the word ‘Holocaust’ was suggested, some Jewish scholars…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ttling LGBT refugees; and stop LGBT immigration. LGBT activists around the world are concerned that Trump, who will be sworn in January 20, has given a new lease to anti-gay leaders around the world and carte blanche to discriminate against queer people. World leaders who were put on notice – and in some cases denied financial support by the U.S. under the Obama administration – may now find a friend in the White House. LGBT activists question if…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…” George Barasa, a Kenyan gay rights activist told Uganda’s Kuchu Times, a news outlet run by LGBT activists in east Africa…. Indeed, Kuchu Times reflected on the hostile environment LGBT Africans face in the media, lamenting that “Such incidences where the media has incited violence to the point of death should serve as a lesson not to put other people’s lives in danger, but not in Africa.” Critics included many of the paper’s own readers: Commen…