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Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…ceptance. In 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association withdrew its classification of homosexuality as a “mental illness,” the change was widely reported as were the growing number of cities that added “sexual orientation” to anti-discrimination laws. By the end of the decade, reporters were filing profiles about a “hip” community with its own bars, clubs, music, and fashion as well as a distinctively uninhibited sexual scene. Journalists al…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…to seek or accept work, which was the view (supported by the teaching of classical and neo-classical economists) on which the nation’s existing poor law system was based. The belief that joblessness is the fault of the jobless has returned today in the assumption, shared by most Republicans, that the unemployed can be prodded into getting a job by the withdrawal of the “crutch” that extended unemployment insurance supposedly provides. Many libera…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…best endowed financially, provide parsonages. But over time, an increasing number of clergy have made their own living arrangements. Churches found parsonages prohibitively expensive; congregants preferred to see their donations go toward services rather than clergy housing; and new religious ventures, especially the nondenominational and evangelical churches that began to flourish in the second half of the twentieth century, could not boast the h…

Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…deported in the 1990s, they brought the gang culture back to El Salvador. Last week the Associated Press reported that there have been 3,673 murders in El Salvador so far this year. Recently, President Funes mobilized the army to help the civilian police maintain order in areas prone to violence, but this move worries some observers, who note the risks of once again involving the military in the country’s domestic affairs. For the moment, Salvado…

Will Francis’ Statements on Women and Gays ‘Make a Mess’ Inside the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…On July 25, in a rousing speech to young people, he stated: “quiero lío en las diócesis,” which the English language press prissily translated as a plea for the youth to “make a mess.” I suspect that those more familiar with the Argentine way of speaking would have rendered it “go ahead and ‘screw up,’” though that is a bit unseemly for a pontiff. What Francis appears to have meant is that he wants young people to shake things up in their local si…

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

By Mark Hulsether

…a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin’ up, An’ as if all that shit wuzn’t enough: A rat done bit my sister Nell. (with Whitey on the moon) Her face an’ arm began to swell. (but Whitey’s on the moon) Was all that money I made las’ year (for Whitey on the moon?) How come there ain’t no money here? (Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon) Y’know I jus’ ‘bout had my fill (of Whitey on the moon) I think I’ll sen’ these doctor bills, Airmail special (to Whitey…

Narco-Violence and the Failure of the Church in Mexico

By Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…n that was enacted elsewhere in Mexico and throughout Latin America in the last decades of the twentieth century, as the Vatican worked the institutional dismantling of liberation theology. The Mexican Church has so distanced itself from the grassroots that it no longer has the authority and credibility it once had to launch an effective analysis and critique, or to propose credible alternatives to the recent drug war. In a recent interview, novel…

Mourning Jenni Rivera: “When a Lady Dies”

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ular culture. Mourning in Public Tomen tequila y cerveza que toquen fuerte las bandas suelten por mi mariposas apláudanme con sus palmas por que así es como celebran cuando se muere una dama (From Rivera’s “Cuando Muera una Mujer”) As Octavio Paz famously wrote in his monumental work on Mexican consciousness, The Labyrinth of Solitude, “A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.” With the public outpourings of remembrance, the candles…

Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground

By E. David Morgen

…and now the leader of his own band, Lesh has seen the form evolve over the last forty years. But to answer the question, he reached back even farther in history. “It’s always something that’s been part of human culture,” he said. “In the nineteenth century, they had town camp meetings. Whole towns would go to camp out, play music, and pray… That’s kind of what this has become… Nobody invented this. This is something that human beings need to do.”…

Media Overplays Rihanna Concert Coverup

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…er skirt. Second, it seems hypocritical: you’ll host a concern for and buy tickets to see a female performer sing songs about things that are totally haram (according to different opinions), but not if she’s wearing clothing you find inappropriate? From the artist’s point of view, it also seems like a seems like an affront. It compromises the artists’ “package deal” of music, image, and stage presence, the latter two of which sometimes include sca…