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Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lation that will be debated in parliament beginning on Monday. Among those participating was presidential candidate Alejandro Guillier, who will face anti-marriage-equality candidate Sebastián Piñera in the December 17 runoff election. Activists announced that majorities in both chambers of the national legislature are committed to marriage equality. Democratic Republic of Congo: Pro-LGBT radio host profiled NPR’s Christopher Clark profiles Patou…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has called on the Spanish parliament to reject a proposed nondiscrimination bill, claiming that the law would likely have “a significant and detrimental impact on citizens’ fundamental freedoms.” ADF International called the Spanish bill “the most harmful and damaging we have seen so far” in Europe. The Spanish Evangelical Alliance also opposes the legislation and has gathered nearly 10,000 s…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…claimed that their personal challenges had brought them closer to God. One participant said that through it all, “God has been my pillar”. The Asia Pacific Forum and United Nations Development Program have released the conference report from their April conference on the ten-year anniversary of the adoption of the Yogyakarta Principles on the human rights of LGBTI people. Also released: a video report on the Asia-Pacific Rainbow Families Forum whi…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ity legislator and executive chairman of the New Power Party. Ecuador: Photographer documents conditions in ‘conversion clinics’ OutRight International published an interview with photographer Paola Paredes about her photography project, Until You Change, a photo series documenting the conditions in “conversion clinics” meant to “cure” LGBTIQ people….

American Civil Religion is Dead, Long Live American Civil Religion

By Peter Laarman

…esented by Black people. It was President Obama’s approach as well, always patiently teaching us that despite the many defaults and defeats in our mixed history we need to keep on organizing and never give up on the possibility of change. It may be relevant here that, even now, African Americans tend to be more patriotic than others, albeit in a special way, precisely because of all of the horrors visited upon Black people here over the course of…

Martyrdom, Racist Violence, and the Role of Art: Kara Walker’s Religious Turn

By Spencer Dew

…herself as a major figure in contemporary art in the mid-1990s with room-spanning installations of cut-paper silhouette friezes, Walkers work addresses history in two valences, with the form (a Victorian craft genre, seized and dragged violently into the present moment) rendering explicit the nostalgic and romantic myths we cling to in lieu of actual facts, and the subjects depicted (slavery in similarly mythically-rendered, grotesque scenes, thi…

No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…in the Caucasus, forcibly converted Iran to Twelver Shi’a Islam. How this paragraph passed muster is not beyond me, though. We’ve a tendency to prefer lazy stereotyping to rigorous thinking. We often claim Israelis and Palestinians have been fighting for “a thousand years,” or that the Middle East is “roiled by ancient hatreds,” which excuses our ignorance of the conflict, validates our disinterest in learning more, and excuses our complicity in…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…re that G had finally, after many years, become a rare welcoming downtown space for people of color, the new management made a point of making REBAR distinctly unwelcoming to African American patrons. With Pride month upon us, I want to call out what should be recognized as the Gay Shame in the persistence of so much racism—and classism—within the “community.” The very assumption that cisgender white men can still act as LGBTQ community spokespers…

Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’

By Peter Laarman

…ort of openly endorsing slavery. He dismisses the direct testimony of many participants that their decision not to use the word “slaves” was part of an effort to sanitize the document and salve some uneasy consciences. He also dismisses Madison’s own emphatic argument, in urging his fellow Virginians to ratify the finished Constitution, that he and his fellow slaveholders would, in fact, continue to enjoy an effective “property in man,” thanks to…

QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…aved from this destruction by aliens who were communicating with Keech telepathically. On December 21, as midnight came and went with no spacecraft, many of the members wept and sat in disbelief. Then Keech received a message from the aliens: the apocalypse had been called off. As Festinger and colleagues write, “This little group, sitting all night long, has spread so much goodness and light that the God of the Universe spared the Earth from dest…