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

By J. Kameron Carter

…i-wake, semi-sleep, semi-dream state, I thought it was Charleston all over again. Emanuel AME redux. 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 a…

Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

By Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

…thinking that morning as I was getting ready to head over to the LA Pride parade—even as news came in of an arrest in Santa Monica, earlier in the day, of a heavily armed man who was supposedly en route to the Pride event in West Hollywood. As I watched the Los Angeles SWAT team and armored vehicles cruising up and down the LA Pride parade route a couple hours later, my heart broke and my body ached. I walked along the route and saw the same anti-…

“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate

By Andrew Aghapour

…rd. That includes local yahoos, religious fundamentalists, and fictional characters (with online filing, you’re bound to get a “Deez Nuts”), but there are also savvy activists in the mix, who use fringe campaigns to publicize a single issue. Democratic candidate Lawrence Lessig, for example, promises to pass sweeping campaign finance reform and then immediately resign. Fringe presidential campaigns are a great American tradition. Yet I must admit…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…re 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-in a publicity stunt? Yes, and a successful one at that. The Dems were able to put a spotlight on Republican inaction. The House GOP leadership played right into their hands by turning off the floor cameras, which made them seem anti-sma…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…tablets and laptops and televisions, we watched real people die. As Luvvie Ajayi has written, these images and videos “desensitize us to black death” and numb us to the violence done against black bodies—a powerful truth that collides with questions about death and how to treat it reverently in this digital age. This week, instead of watching people die, we are playing Pokémon Go. In just a few days, the game has more users than Twitter, has crash…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…ebsite. Tanzania: Regional commissioner declares war on ‘gayism’ Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda has declared war against homosexuality, including calls to to track down gays on social media platforms, deregister LGBT-supporting civic orgniazations, and arrest people who attend gay events. His crusade is being cheered on by some in the media, such as this commentary that appeared in the Daily News last week, which called for the “…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…rd-earned. The tens of thousands of people affected by the floods in Louisiana are, in large part, hard-working poor and working-class people. So hard-working, in fact, that many took it upon themselves to rescue friends and strangers from the rising waters, to open their homes to those made homeless, and to volunteer at shelters and places of worship. Some may say that Mother Nature does not discriminate. That may be true, but it’s also true that…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…s: “I do not recall ever even hearing of any ‘allegations of anti-Semitism against [me],’ which would be preposterously false and defamatory because, among other reason(s), I am quite proud of the Jewish heritage of my wife of 38 years,” he wrote in an email. Later in a phone interview, he said his wife was not a practicing Jew but “ethnically Jewish” because her maternal grandmother was a Jew. Of course, it is possible to express [insert flavor o…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…Republican nominee, and about Trump’s budding partnership with the Nigel Farage, the former leader of Britain’s far-right UK Independence Party. She talked about the candidate’s history of racially discriminating against his tenants. And she talked about the alt-right. Of course, the alt-right was thrilled. It’s not every day that a major presidential candidate calls out your fringe movement, even if there’s some murkiness about what your fringe…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…formation, including the name of a man arrested for homosexuality in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is still a capital offense. In the International Journal of Human Rights, Po-Han Lee examines LGBT rights and Asian values. From the abstract: Drawing upon LGBT rights in Taiwan, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore, this article – through an application of K.H. Chen’s (2010) Asia as Method – critically reviews how global LGBT politics interact wit…