With Buttigieg in the national spotlight, conservative Christians will ramp up their efforts to marginalize the LGBTQ community. The rest of us need to counter with more support. Many liberals are excited about Pete Buttigieg’s early impact on the presidential primary. In the wake of the elections of LGBTQ like Jared Polis and Kyrsten Sinema […]
The film glosses over, perhaps even misrepresents, some of the most important aspects of Mercury’s life—his sexuality, his death from AIDS, and the symbology of the ’80s that both evoke. The Queen-Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has polarized audiences and critics. IMDB.com reports an 8.4/10 audience score but only a 49/100 from its sister site […]
There are times in our lives when we just need the emotional band-aid of booze to soften the razor-sharp view of reality. Oh, the Holigays. The super-sweet, oh-so-lovely, super-cozy time of year that we lezzies adore with every fiber of our lez beings. It’s the gayest time of year, after all. All those sparkly, twinkly […]
Realizing that you are “abnormal” according to social norms and popular culture and religion, knowing that people believe you have somehow chosen your “abnormality” and that you can therefore un-choose it, tends to mess with your head. CN: rape, abuse I am not yet a teenager. (No, I will not get more specific. Don’t ask.) […]
Making fun of “closet cases” only reinforces homophobia. There’s a lot of division in the American left these days. In a time of political crisis like the one we face today, when every moment is an emergency and the difference between a good and a just-OK strategy may be life and death, it’s understandable that […]
Every time you stay silent in response to cruelty or misinformation, you create a safe space for bigotry to spread. But you don’t have to let that happen. Everybody’s been there. In a taxi cab, at a graduation party, during a business dinner. You’re having a perfectly good time and then, bam. Somebody says something […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, I’ve always liked the quote “Justice is what love looks like in public,” and I’m trying to […]
I’m not sure I’ve ever been in the explicit position of being denied something because I don’t believe in God…until now. When the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) changed their rules to allow gay scout leaders last summer I was cautiously elated. As the mother of a 9-year-old boy who would enjoy and benefit from a scouting […]
Religion is kind of like fire. In responsible hands, it provides us with heat and light. But in the wrong hands, it causes destruction for destruction’s sake. During my three years working in development for an evangelical Christian school, I learned an important new vocabulary word: worldview. Had I first encountered the term outside of […]
An earlier version of this piece appeared on John Kinnear’s personal blog, Ask Your Dad. You need to know with every fiber of who you are that when you walk in the front door of your home you are safe and you are loved. I ran across this letter on Reddit this morning. It is from a father disowning […]
I feared he would be bullied, that he’d be an outcast. I didn’t know exactly how to help this little spirit, but I knew I would protect him, come what may. Down syndrome. The words were a punch in the gut, a shattering of the heart, a cold arrow shooting down my spine. Down syndrome. Until that […]
