Category Archives: LGBTQ & Gender

LGBTQ persons live in fear and often at great risk in many Muslim societies

[NOTE: A few safe places, amid many areas of official persecution and grave risk; that’s the sum of this sketch of legal, social and religious issues facing LGBTQ persons in most Muslim societies. This Associated Press report is unsettling and may for some be traumatic; readers are advised.] AP News: Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ … Continue reading LGBTQ persons live in fear and often at great risk in many Muslim societies →

Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina

In the recent midterm elections, the North Carolina vote suppression party fell only one seat short of reclaiming the veto-proof majority, which they had deployed like a sledgehammer on human rights until governor Roy Cooper’s political skills broke through it. Now, as he explains here, they are looking to the rightwing bloc on the U. … Continue reading Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina →

Cartoons: “It’s Been A[n Un]Quiet Week in Lake [Trouble] Wo[n’t] Begone . . .”

An epidemic of the eloquent unsaid . . . A “Werewolf” will hopefully soon head home . . . Which one will the wee lad get busted for?? Unthinkable, but Undeniable . . . Congratulations, and ”Meow” . . …

The Polish Catholic Church: Clinging to its rigid homophobia, pedophile priest protection & rightwing government ties, but losing young Poles is the price it’s paying

The Polish church is in a deep crisis, as its authority is sapped by cascading sexual abuse scandals and as more people grow wary of its perceived alliance with the country’s right-wing government.

Quotes of the Week: Not Many Words; It’s Only Wednesday . . .

a shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late Tuesday,leaving six people dead.