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Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…Europe/Radio Liberty reported that an event organizer “says LGBT right activists want harsher penalties for antigay attacks that he says currently are treated as ‘ordinary fistfights.’” Activists around the world marked Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Bi Visibility Day) on Saturday, September 23, capping off Bisexual Awareness Week. Hanoi Pride’s week of events concluded on September 24. Catholic Church: Controversy over bridge-building book reflects…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…h outside a book fair. Blogger hacked to death on his way to work. LGBT activists hacked to death in their apartment. These reports illustrate a deep human rights crisis in Bangladesh. Since 2013, violent extremists linked to militant Islamist groups have attacked or killed more than one dozen writers, publishers, and activists. The attacks intensified starting in February 2015, when Avijit Roy, author and founder of Bengali freethought website Mu…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…xuality issues. Bangladesh: Kerry offers to aid investigation into LGBT activist murders U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offering American support for a thorough investigation into the murder of LGBT activists Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar by a group of men who have been linked to a local branch of al-Qaeda. From the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: The murders of Mannan and Mojumdar took place two d…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…My partner saw my face and asked what had happened. We turned on the television to learn that a man named Omar Mateen had entered a popular gay nightclub on its “Latin Night.” Using an AR-15 assault rifle and a semi-automatic handgun for backup, and claiming allegiance to ISIS, Mateen unleashed his homophobic terror through the barrel of a gun. I am grieving and mourning. As I wrote to a friend, “I’m just sick over this… Fighting depression over…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…in-house meditation program and became one of corporate mindfulness’ most visible advocates. Though Tan left Google six months ago, his final official job title at the company still doubles as his nickname: Jolly Good Fellow. Over the course of two phone conversations, RD asked Tan—who was, in fact, quite jolly—if mindfulness is a watering-down of Buddhism, whether meditation can truly save the world, and why he specializes in teaching rich people…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…ber their pilgrimage: Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 years old Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 years old Luis S. Vielma, 22 years old Kimberly Morris, 37 years old Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old Antho…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…invention of the twentieth century” developed in part by Popes from Pius XII through Benedict XVI “in part as a response to feminist claims, including those recently anathematized by the Vatican under the term ‘gender.’” After more than a year of stonewalling by the Vatican, French President Francois Hollande named Laurent Stefanini ambassador to UNESCO. Stefanini had been named Ambassador to the Holy See, which refused to accept him, reportedly…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…t for hatred from those who fear black solidarity, and as a result these edifices have been the location for many of our nation’s most egregious racial terrorist acts.” In 1822, one of Emanuel’s founders, Denmark Vesey, was one of 35 black men hanged after “white residents of Charleston discovered that one of their worst fears had come true: a slave conspiracy to rise against their masters and slaughter all white residents was afoot in the city.”…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…ys is also that they offer us a window into how the authors see other identities, including my own. There are several mentions of Islam or Muslims in Bokhari and Yiannopoulos’ essay, two of which I quote here because of the deeper meaning revealed by these invocations. Intentionally or not, they put to rest the idea that Islam is purely a religion (and that Islamophobia cannot be a form of racism), because they see, or describe, how Islam and Musl…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

For technical reasons (damn you, Adobe Flash!) I was limited to monitoring the progress of the Congressional Democrats’ sit-in last night mostly by Twitter. Still, what I saw was fascinating, and frankly, inspiring. It’s hard not to admire a 76-year-old John Lewis using the same tactics he used in the campaign against segregation for a new kind of liberation. We’ll come back to his determination later. First, to answer your questions: Was the sit…