lgbt

Ok I know there are many people that hate or fear people who are different. It never seems to matter what it is that makes us different just that we are different is enough to make others hate you or misjudge. I understand that it is like a part of human nature to fear what you don't know or understand.  Read More »

The Rainbow Families annual conference was this weekend. It is a convocation of resources for GLBT families all over the Upper Midwest. There are workshops about legal protection of partners and children, artificial insemination, transgender parenting issues, saving for college, and adoption, just to name a few. I've gone to the prospective parent workshops before, so this year, I decided to do the educator track. What I learned about the school conditions of GLBT youth was upsetting. It hasn't gotten much better in the ridiculously huge number of years since I graduated from high school.  Read More »

In the United States, there are two forms of marriage: there are religious marriages, and there are legal marriages. In the Catholic Church, marriage is a holy sacrament in which a man and a woman are bound together for life, except for extreme situations in which the marriage is anulled.  Read More »

If homosexuality is not a choice and nothing can change it, how do you justify someone who is gay in April and three months later, straight? I speak of a specific incident that actually happened.  Read More »

That statement is absolutely false. But I can't tell you how many times people have accused me of that. It seems that in our liberal yet conservative days being bisexual is "popular" or "chosen".  Read More »

Disclaimer: I am in the process of educating myself on trans issues, so I will shortly have an entry focusing on trans and gender-related terms. 

Last summer, when I was making preparations to give a workshop on queer issues for allies, my co-presenter frantically found me five minutes before the workshop was due to start.

 "What does bi-curious, fluid, downe, queer, questioning, and pansexual mean?" he asked, worriedly. That's when I realized that the terms weren't in as widespread use as I thought they were. That, and a thread on my ProgressiveU blog made me decide to write this primer.  Read More »