by admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Featured, Religion
40 years ago, two nuns, Ann and Marika Jane Savage-Lewis, were outed as being in a relationship by their local newspaper in their small Welsh town. It resulted in them being physically thrown out of their church and hounded out of town. Today, they get to tell...
by admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured, Religion
A year ago, Mormon church leaders released new guidelines for their parishioners: Mormons in same-sex marriages could be kicked out of the church and prohibited from baptizing their children. It even dictated that those children could not seek baptism as adults...
by admin | Dec 9, 2016 | Featured, News
The Human Rights Campaign has just released its 2017 Corporate Equality Index report. The report rates businesses based on how friendly they are towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. In total, 517 businesses received a perfect score of...
by admin | Dec 8, 2016 | Featured, Religion
For many in the LGBTQ+ community, seeing words like “pastor” or “Evangelical” in the same headline as “homosexuality” or “LGBT” can be triggering. After all, one can only read so many articles about anti-LGBTQ+ preachers or be told that one’s lifestyle is a sin...
by admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured
Cultural appropriation is when a person of privilege profits from stealing the traditions, beliefs, and practices of oppressed people. The person of privilege often gives little to zero credit to the culture in which they took these ideas from. An example of...
by admin | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured, News
On November 22, 2016, 13-year-old Tyrone Unsworth killed himself after being repeatedly bullied. Tyrone, who is from Australia, was gay. A month prior to taking his own life, he was involved in a brutal fight with another student. The aftermath of the fight...
