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Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…is a city of about 150,000 people. Sara Bocciardi, who went to college in San Francisco before returning home to Placer County, describes the area this way: “It’s a two-hour drive, it’s a hundred miles, it’s a world of political difference.” Bocciardi, a software engineer and co-moderator for the Church Council at Loomis Basin Congregational United Church of Christ, says the mostly rural, inland county has grown more diverse in recent years. But…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he Czech man and his French husband adopted the boys as new-born babies in San Francisco, where they bring them up, MfD writes. However, the children spent their holidays with their grandmother in the Czech Republic where the father, aged 41, had no rights to them. “Now we can be granted Czech citizenship, thanks to which we can move to the Czech Republic,” the Czech father, who works as a financial director in the USA, is quoted as saying. “Our t…

Pope Francis, the Bouncer

By Anthea Butler

…t recent revelation comes after comments he made at a working class church San Cirillo Allessandro, on the outskirts of Rome on the first Sunday of Advent. According to L’Osservatore Romano, the Pope told parishioners he had once been a bouncer, but that his work later in life teaching psychology and literature taught him how to get people back into the church. No surprise then, that Pope Francis is punching high and low at his internal and extern…

The “Guilty” AIDS Sufferers

By Nick Street

…room. It’s in the traditional Japanese mold (even though he grew up in the San Fernando Valley, my friend has basically reshaped himself to fit the traditional Japanese mold). The altar features a carved wooden Buddha, red lacquered trays for offerings of various sorts, and a small forest of ihai—“spirit tablets”—inscribed with the names of friends and family members that he has lost. I’ve always been drawn to a pair of ihai on the left side of my…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…thirties, he finally settled down as an actor, writer, and producer in the San Francisco theater scene. It was there that Talen met Sidney Lanier, an Episcopal minister whose own antics were dramatized in the play-turned-film The Night of the Iguana, by his cousin, Tennessee Williams. At the time, remembers Lanier, he was “mostly traveling in the opposite direction from the Church.” After seeing Talen perform, Lanier took him out to lunch and said…

In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…community was the interracial Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, which he left a comfortable position at Howard University to co-found in 1944. Civil rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer, who had no formal education other than Bible study beyond the sixth grade, might at first glance seem to be something of a bad fit with the other figures in Raboteau’s book. But Raboteau makes a convincing case that Hamer, who mightily irritated…

News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…under not good, and the country’s most famous democratic personality, Ang San Suu Kyi, has been disturbingly quiet, preferring not to speak out; whatever her reasons may be, her silence is as they say deafening. In addition to the country’s long history of ethnic and sectarian conflict, the plight of its Muslim population continues to worsen, with evidence of human trafficking of Burmese Muslim refugees now surfacing. The violence threatens to sp…

How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…speaking about The Good Death at the following events this month: Mar 22 – San Francisco, CA: Booksmith, 7:30 pm. A reading with an introduction by Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Details. Mar 24 – Portland, OR: Powell’s Books, 7:30 pm. Introduction by Peg Sandeen, PhD, MSW, Executive Director of Death with Dignity. Details. Mar 29 – Los Angeles, CA: Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and The Center for Health Jour…

How Are The Justices Hanging in the Challenge to Prop. 8?

By Nick Street

All eyes were on San Francisco this week as the California Supreme Court handled the legal challenge to Prop 8 like a worker at Oak Ridge might approach a fresh batch of plutonium—that is, very carefully and with a long-handled set of tongs. “Is it for this court to limit the people’s power to amend the constitution?” asked Chief Justice Ronald George, who last May wrote the majority opinion that struck down California’s earlier ban on same-sex m…

Double Helix: Queer Science

By Arri Eisen

…o, during which 4,000 marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in San Francisco, such marriages were legal in California. As goes California, so usually goes the rest of the country—or so goes the axiom, in any case. It’s odd how science has become the ultimate arbiter in our society, how it’s taken on such power. Ironically, sometimes those who wish science didn’t have so much power give it more by facing off against it. Some creationist…