LGBTQ
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Sacred Maps and New Paths: Reimagining Scripture
When I was younger, my mom loved taking us on summer road trips. Once we picked a destination, we’d log into the computer, and enter our starting point and endpoint into MapQuest (there’s a throwback!). Then we’d print out a… Continue reading
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“Now All Things Have Been Filled with Light”: Theological Reflections on Andy Warhol’s Icons
Netflix’s The Andy Warhol Diaries (based upon the book of the same name) rightly present the artist as mysterious. He was, after all, notoriously cryptic in his self-expression. Even among his closest friends, colleagues, and lovers his identity seemed impenetrable, as though… Continue reading
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On the Occasion of my Child’s Baptism; Or, On the Importance of Women’s and LGBTQ Persons’ Ordination
Feminists have long reflected on the ways in which “Mother Church,” with its historically male clergy, has taken up the tasks historically related to women. Priests don women’s clothing as they replace women in authority, baptize children as they co-opt… Continue reading
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Defend Your Flock! Please.
An email was recently sent to a number of LGBTQ Orthodox, threatening to “out” gay and lesbian Orthodox, regardless of whether they are in an intimate and sexually active relationship. These “Protectors of Holy Orthodoxy” also threatened to seek out… Continue reading
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Silence, Solidarity and Grief: responding again to A Queer Calling
Given the cost of speaking out, the divisiveness of the issue, I don’t know what offering solidarity on the part of A Queer Calling might mean given the cost that comes with solidarity. I do think it requires honestly facing… Continue reading
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Stories are Never Just Stories: a response to “Our Celibate Gay Agenda”
Sarah and Lindsey at A Queer Calling finally laid out their celibate gay agenda: A Queer Calling came to be at a time when we felt a need for more meaningful interaction with other people on topics such as celibacy,… Continue reading
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Eating Cake and Swinging Sticks
In “Cake and Compassion in Arizona,” Fr. Lawrence Farley creates a rhetorical association and then immediately denies its impact: he likens the refusal of baking a cake for a lesbian couple to the same refusal of a Jew or an… Continue reading
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On the Theo-Political Vision of Macklemore; Or, Why Proximity & Intimacy ≠ Solidarity
The ease with which arguments for gay marriage have found their historical analogy in comparison to interracial marriage has long given me pause. Indeed, the ease with which contemporary gay rights is articulated as “The New Civil Rights” or “The… Continue reading
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“Fagbug:” Beetle-Driving Grad Student Confronts Homophobia On the Road and On Film
Summer leisure time or attempts to beat the heat may find some of us looking for on-screen recommendations. If you have already exhausted Netflix’s store of Dawson’s Creek in all six seasons of its teenage soap operatic glory (that was… Continue reading