Commentary

To the shock of many of us LGBT people of faith is the Vatican’s recent decision in the document “The Gift of Priestly Vocation,” to ban gays...

Democratic Congresswoman Katherine Clark, who has represented Massachusetts’s 5th Congressional District since 2013, has never been someone to shy away from difficult issues. Just last month, the...

I might as well begin with an embarrassing admission; I suspect me sister and my two nieces — her daughters — voted for Trump....

I check my phone at 3 am and I see that he has won. I struggle to go back to sleep but I wind up...

Commentary I am a gay American. I am a 60-year-old father of two. I write on Veterans Day. I am reminded of the words of...

Casting Aspersions This is a sad day indeed. To see some of our worst enemies glowing with the pride of victory is a hard thing...

As I write this, the polls have just opened in America. I do not yet know the outcome of any races. I am hopeful,...

It’s been a few weeks since a terroristic madman massacred 49 innocent partygoers in cold blood and injured 53 others at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, and while the pain of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history is still fresh for many of us, some of the smoke has cleared, giving way to a more rational perspective. Without the Everest-level emotions that flooded our collective consciousness in the immediate wake of the attack, thus distorting our cognitive thinking – and fueling our rage – we can now take a step back from one of the deadliest days in American and LGBT history to appreciate what has risen from our slain brothers and sisters’ ashes. Like these seven positive side effects.

When it comes to gun violence and the right to bear arms, how many people have you listened to and/or read refer to the so-called "sacred" document we call the Constitution and cite the rhetoric of our founding fathers?

Creep of the Week

Let's pretend that it's your job to get punched in the head over and over and over again by muscular men who train for hours every day with the specific goal of hitting you harder. Granted, you also hit these men in the head, but that doesn't change the fact that getting punched is your job. And you do this for years.