Irene Monroe has written on a number of topics for publications such as The Advocate, New England Bay Windows, Boston In Newsweekly, and The Witness. Here are some selected links to her writing.
- Where Do We Go From Here, Redux December 29, 2020
- History Has Me Hesitant About The Coronavirus Vaccine December 12, 2020
- Kamala Harris Stands On Shoulders Of Giants November 9, 2020
- Is Pope Francis’s Support Of Civil Unions Just Lip Service? October 28, 2020
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bent The Moral Arc Toward Justice September 24, 2020
- Lewis’ “good trouble” extends to LGBTQ voters, too August 13, 2020
- The White Women Of Portland, Oregon Aren’t Listening August 5, 2020
- To Honor John Lewis, We Must Continue His Fight For Voting Rights For All July 21, 2020
- To Honor John Lewis, We Must Continue His Fight For Voting Rights For All July 21, 2020
- This Fourth Of July, What Does ‘Patriotism’ Mean To Black Americans? July 2, 2020
- Black lives, LGBTQ+ lives, and Pride June 12, 2020
- Celebrating Boston Pride’s 50th Anniversary During The Police Brutality Crisis June 11, 2020
- Living apart — and staying close — in the coronavirus pandemic May 15, 2020
- The Challenge With Reopening Places Of Worship May 13, 2020
- If Joe Kennedy Wants To Win Against Ed Markey, He Must Be More Than A Younger Version February 19, 2020
- Presidential hopefuls scramble for black votes February 10, 2020
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley Has Disrupted The Eurocentric Aesthetic About Hair January 21, 2020
- Why Reparations: America Needs to Pay Up and Pay Forward August 30, 2019
- Volume on Xenophobia and Racism on Blast July 18, 2019
- Morehouse will admit trans male students May 1, 2019
- Hart’s Heartless Apology December 12, 2018
- An evening with Michelle November 27, 2018
- Thanksgiving: The original hate crime November 21, 2018
- A Queer Look at Jonestown at 40 November 19, 2018
- God’s trans-affirming vote on Question 3 November 14, 2018
- The Matthew Shepard murder revisited October 10, 2018
- Why can’t puppets Bert and Ernie be gay? September 21, 2018
- Is the Catholic Church unsalvageable? September 4, 2018
- That n-word, again July 15, 2018
- Concerns about the afterlife in this life with Trump July 11, 2018
- One of MLK’s Dreams Was an End to Gun Violence April 4, 2018
- A black girl’s take on “A Wrinkle in Time” | GBMNews March 21, 2018
- The Goings-on at “The Hotel Nepenthe” March 9, 2018
- Honoring Mildred Loving this Valentine’s Day February 14, 2018
- Pimping King at the Super Bowl February 8, 2018
- Revisiting Frederick Douglass February 2, 2018
- LGBT Africans and Haitians Don’t Need Trump’s Insults, They Need Asylum January 22, 2018
- Irene Monroe is Keynote Speaker at MLK Jr. Day Celebration in Cambridge January 12, 2018
- King’s dream of “the beloved community” extends to your community, too January 12, 2018
- For Black Women, Being Called the Democrats’ ‘Backbone’ Is No Compliment December 19, 2017
- The New Jim Crow targets LGBTQ Americans, too December 11, 2017
- Should the sins our spouses fall on us? December 6, 2017
- My Black Lesbian Body Is a Target for Police Brutality December 1, 2017
- My black lesbian body is a target for police brutality November 29, 2017
- Donna Brazile’s revenge with “Hacks” November 15, 2017
- John Kelly needs a queer history lesson on the Civil War November 8, 2017
- The Matthew Shepard murder revisited October 27, 2017
- Who was “Detroit’s” intended movie audience? August 12, 2017
- The President’s war on transgender service members July 29, 2017
- DignityUSA is moving toward radical inclusion July 16, 2017
- Will Supreme Court allow businesses to not serve the LGBTQ community? June 29, 2017
- In Americans’ enduring use of the N-word, evidence against ‘reclaiming’ racist words June 21, 2017
- Controversy Flies Over Philadelphia’s New Pride Flag – NBC News June 15, 2017 June 15, 2017
- LGBTQ pride events display disparities June 5, 2017
- Caitlyn Jenner’s Growing Pains June 1, 2017
- Pepsi ad failed its multicultural audience April 18, 2017
- Emmett Till painting raises concerns of cultural appropriation April 1, 2017
- An unwelcoming competition between black Brits and African Americans for movie roles March 17, 2017
- Trump is one example why we need Black History Month February 7, 2017
- The Irony Behind Trump’s Travel Ban And Holocaust Remembrance Day February 3, 2017
- The Rev. Irene Monroe, Activist Pastor and National Columnist Will Be Speaking on February 7 at the University of Puget Sound. February 3, 2017
- The Women’s March On Washington Highlighted Old And New Tensions January 25, 2017
- Did homophobic minister Bishop Eddie Long die from untreated AIDS complications? January 17, 2017
- Did Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream include LGBTQ people too? January 16, 2017
- Stay woke” this Thanksgiving! November 24, 2016
- Laughing to keep from crying in “The Scottsboro Boys” November 3, 2016
- Remembering When Evangelicals Tried to Exorcise Gays With ‘Hell Houses’ October 27, 2016
- Love and Violence in Black LGBT Communities October 7, 2016
- Malcolm X was a ‘gay for pay’ hustler in his youth October 6, 2016
- Confederate and Union: The untold history of gay Civil War soldiers October 4, 2016
- Finding your “Significant Other” September 15, 2016
- Trump And Clinton: Swimming Upstream For Black Votes September 7, 2016
- White LGBTs: We Need Your Help With Police Harassment July 26, 2016
- Faith in Action column: Targeted act of a terrorist’s hate June 14, 2016
- Obama’s Send-Off At White House Correspondents’ Dinner Ends With The N-Word May 4, 2016
- Massachusetts Isn’t Mississippi, But It’s No LGBT Paradise April 19, 2016
- Laughing at the Absurdities of Black Homophobia March 31, 2016
- White Nights, Black Paradise: A Religious Utopia Turned Nightmare March 26, 2016
- Beyoncé Does Justice to New Orleans’ Rich Queer Culture February 15, 2016
- Valentine’s Day Is for Lovers—Including LGBTQ Americans February 10, 2016
- Why Homophobic Harlem Church’s Building Should Become LGBT Homeless Youth Shelter February 3, 2016
- Bathroom Bills Policing Our Genitals January 21, 2016
- Would Martin Luther King have supported same-sex marriage equality? January 15, 2016
- “Pope-’splaining” Catholic Church’s Homophobia January 5, 2016
- Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? December 23, 2015
- Remembering Our Homeless LGBTQ Youth This Holiday Season December 22, 2015
- Too many homes would rather have no child than a queer child this Christmas December 18, 2015
- World AIDS Day Highlights A Growing Health Crisis At Home December 1, 2015
- On World AIDS Day Report on Black Community Still Grim December 1, 2015
- The refugees who came for Thanksgiving November 25, 2015
- Where’s Log Cabin Republican Activism This Campaign Season? November 11, 2015
- What Should White LGBTQ Organizations Do Post-Marriage Equality? October 21, 2015
- Same-Sex Domestic Violence Remains on the Down Low October 9, 2015
- Pope Francis’s Warm And Welcoming Mixed Messages October 8, 2015
- The Latest Tragedy for Black Gays in New Orleans September 3, 2015
- Whither Gay Provincetown? August 28, 2015
- Is The Provincetown Carnival Losing Its Queerness? August 27, 2015
- The Stonewall I Remember Wasn’t Just White August 11, 2015
- Black Women, Gay Men Suffering at the Hands of Police August 2, 2015
- Where Is My Black Body Safe In America? July 30, 2015
- The Atticus We Don’t Want to Know July 20, 2015
- Church Burnings and Southern Resistance — Is It 1963 Again? July 3, 2015
- Marriage Equality: Okay, But I Ain’t Moving to Georgia! June 30, 2015
- We Must Keep Talking June 25, 2015
- Obama used the n-word appropriately June 24, 2015
- The Transparency of a “Incog-Negro” June 22, 2015
- It’s time to sidestep political correctness and have a dialogue on race June 19, 2015
- People of Color Prides Party to a Different Beat June 11, 2015
- Is Caitlyn Jenner the right poster girl for trans equality? June 3, 2015
- Astraea Honoring Boston’s Heroines May 28, 2015
- Marriage Equality Hangs In The Balance At The Supreme Court May 6, 2015
- Marriage Equality now rests with Supreme Court April 30, 2015
- Q Boston conference about us, not for us April 23, 2015
- “Conversion” therapies deadly outcomes April 15, 2015
- Easter Is About Seeing Those At The Margins April 3, 2015
- Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom March 20, 2015
- The love that dare not speak its name March 19, 2015
- Boston’s Forgotten Role in the Women’s Movement March 5, 2015
- Remembering the Lovings this Valentine’s Day February 12, 2015
- A Road Map Beyond Black History Month February 5, 2015
- Remembering the 2010 Haiti Earthquake January 29, 2015
- Historic Black LGBTQ Intergenerational Discussion on “Selma” January 22, 2015
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s Expansive Dream January 15, 2015
- Finding Home for the Holidays December 24, 2014
- What’s in a greeting? December 17, 2014
- Continuing to confront barriers: LGBTQ Elders of Color December 10, 2014
- World AIDS Day and my community’s ongoing struggle December 4, 2014
- Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving November 27, 2014
- Qu(e)erying the black migration November 20, 2014
- Turkey flip-flops with LGBTQI population November 13, 2014
- Monogamous: To Be or Not to Be? November 11, 2014
- Menino: an ally to Black LGBTQ communities November 5, 2014
- A Republican reaching across the aisle October 30, 2014
- Confronting Echoes Of The AIDS Hysteria As We Battle Ebola October 23, 2014
- Remembering the life, love and legacy of Audre Lorde October 16, 2014
- Is being “Black-ish” also being homophobic-ish October 9, 2014
- Effects of Climate Change in My Backyard October 2, 2014
- Black Children Are Beloved and Beaten September 18, 2014
- Joan Rivers: A gay icon September 11, 2014
- Back-to-School Not Welcoming to All LGBTQ-Students in Massachusetts September 3, 2014
- The Real Superheroes of P’Town Carnival August 27, 2014
- The stigma of black suicide is killing us August 14, 2014
- Celibacy is the new ex-gay ministry August 7, 2014
- African American sisters aging with HIV and co-morbidities July 30, 2014
- Divided LGBTQ communities on Israeli-Palestine conflict July 24, 2014
- In 2014 still not Independence Day for women July 3, 2014
- Presbyterian Church Crawling Toward Marriage Equality June 26, 2014
- Boston’s LGBTQ people of color take Pride in health June 19, 2014
- The Dyke March Is For Everyone! June 12, 2014
- Desecrating Dr. Maya Angelou’s Funeral June 5, 2014
- Racial Divide in LGBTQ Communities Could Have Derailed Marriage Debate in Massachusetts May 15, 2014
- Military’s Ban on Nappy Hair May 8, 2014
- Mother Teresa’s Canonization Dissed May 1, 2014
- Jesus’ Sex Life on the ‘Down Low’ April 17, 2014
- America Cleans Up Its Homophobic Lexicon April 10, 2014
- No gay animals on Noah’s ark April 3, 2014
- Religious Right’s cookie-cott is full of caca! March 26, 2014
- White gay men are not the culprits gentrifying Harlem March 20, 2014
- Katy Perry’s blasphemous act of free speech March 4, 2014
- Nigeria’s Anti-LGBTQ Law February 20, 2014
- Que(e)rying Michael Sam’s Coming-Out Timing February 16, 2014
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman kept a LGBTQ presence in films February 6, 2014
- MLK Day Reflection on Black LGBTQ Justice January 16, 2014
- Robin Roberts Loosens the Grip of Black Homophobia January 9, 2014
- 2013: The Right’s war on Christmas continues… December 19, 2013
- Mandela’s LGBTQ Advocacy Has Fallen on Deaf Ears in Africa and African Diasporic Communities December 11, 2013
- How media and research institutions contribute of HIV/AIDs in black communities December 5, 2013
- Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving November 26, 2013
- Alec Baldwin & Homophobia: A Race-Based Double Standard? November 21, 2013
- United Methodist Church Still Wrong-Headed on Same-Sex Marriages November 14, 2013
- Monogamous: To Be or Not to Be? November 6, 2013
- Halloween’s a gay holiday for all October 31, 2013
- Unrequited Love in DADT era October 23, 2013
- The Matthew Shepard we don’t know October 9, 2013
- Now Is the Time for Attention to Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Communities of Color October 2, 2013
- What Pope Francis has known about gay priests September 26, 2013
- Complex factors fuel Jamaica’s violent homophobia September 11, 2013
- Has Gentrification of New York’s Harlem Neighborhood Stirred Up Prejudice Against LGBTQ Residents? September 4, 2013
- Pastor McClurkin’s homophobic past has come back to haunt him August 28, 2013
- Mr. March on Washington: Bayard Rustin August 21, 2013
- The Queer Politics of Writing on Race August 4, 2013
- A perceptually progressive pope July 31, 2013
- Black, Gay and Living in a ‘Voting Rights? No! Gay Marriage, Yes!’ World July 15, 2013
- From Matthew Shepard to Trayvon Martin – Bigotry Knows No Boundaries July 10, 2013
- Rattled With PTSD: Post Traumatic Snake Disorder July 2, 2013
- Can the Ex Gay apology be trusted? June 27, 2013
- A friend to Boston’s LGBTQ communities of color will retire June 12, 2013
- Bayard Rustin: Pride icon June 5, 2013
- Remembering a queer gem May 29, 2013
- Black Pride: Distinct and Emblematic May 28, 2013
- Tom Joyner’s Homophobic Message to the Black Community May 15, 2013
- Anti-Keynesian economics’ homophobe Niall Ferguson May 8, 2013
- Jason Collins: The Great Black Hope May 2, 2013
- Will Boston Marathon Bombing rev up Islamophobic domestic terrorists? April 25, 2013
- Remembering the African American Holocaust survivors April 10, 2013
- Another Tackle in the World of Homophobic Sports April 3, 2013
- Is marriage equality in all 50 states too soon? March 27, 2013
- Mexico Sets the Tone on Hate Speech March 13, 2013
- Was Marco McMillian killed in Mississippi because he was black or gay? March 6, 2013
- The Boy Scouts of America: Another Closed Door for Black GBTQ Youth February 20, 2013
- Haiti’s LGBTQ-Accepting Vodou Societies February 2, 2013
- Obama Linking Selma to Stonewall Divides the Black Community January 23, 2013
- Did Martin Luther King Have an LGBTQ Dream, Too? January 16, 2013
- The pain of Django reminds us of America’s dark chapter January 9, 2013
- Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation January 2, 2013
- My Ancestors’ Talking-book January 1, 2013
- What’s the Matter with Jesusland? November 15, 2004
- V.P. Candidates Fail AIDS & Black Women Question October 18, 2004
- Questioning Sexuality Through the Q’s September 29, 2004
- DNC Swept Us Under the Convention-Floor Rug August 24, 2004
- Remembering Ronald Reagan’s Evil Empire July 9, 2004
- No Marriage Between Black Ministers and Queer Community June 2, 2004
- Homophobia’s Role in Torture at Abu Ghraib May 14, 2004
- A Bloodshed Theology April 8, 2004
- The Gift of the Cross April 7, 2004
- Unholy Matrimony: The Black Church & the Christian Right March 24, 2004
- The Other Struggle in the Episcopal Church February 11, 2004
- A Different Kind of “Coming Out” Story January 21, 2004
- More Than Just a Number December 18, 2003
- The Wilderness Can Heal Both Oppressed and Oppressor December 4, 2003
- Living in a Space of Thankfulness November 12, 2003
- Black Clerics Hold Myopic View on Marriage and Family October 31, 2003
- Racism Haunts Queer and Christian Communities September 30, 2003
- Let the Church Say Amen August 29, 2003
- Justice Begins in the Bedroom July 21, 2003
- No Coverage of the Violence against LGBT People of Color July 8, 2003
- The GOP’s Problem with Christianity May 15, 2003
- The Real War America Needs to Fight April 2, 2003
- A New Hero for Black History Month March 13, 2003
- President as Pastor Is No Way to Run a Nation February 25, 2003
- Playing God with the Human Race January 17, 2003
- AIDS’ Troubling Gender Factor December 18, 2002
- The Dangerous Life of the “Other” November 14, 2002
- For Black Gays, Writing is Power October 8, 2002
- One Year Later, What Have We Learned? September 24, 2002
- Losing Heaven September 1, 2002
- Cardinal Sends Kids Message of Hate August 12, 2002
- We, Too, Are Patriots July 15, 2002
- African-American LGBT People Saying It Loud June 11, 2002
- It’s a Sin, but It’s Also a Crime May 6, 2002
- What’s in a Name? Plenty, That’s What! April 9, 2002
- The Catholic Church Needs Its Gay Priests March 20, 2002
- Let Us Cross Over Into 2002 January 16, 2002
- No Salvation For Us in This Army January 8, 2002
- Lives of Our Heroes Remain Hidden December 11, 2001
- Targeting Islam, the New Bigotry November 13, 2001
- Falwell’s God Is Not My God October 1, 2001
- Answering to Our Earth Angels September 21, 2001
- Will Someone Marry Us? Please! August 1, 2001
- We Are Foreigners and Strangers Among Ourselves July 1, 2001
- Coming Into Power: Taking Theology to the Streets July 1, 2001
- Pride and Why We March June 1, 2001
- Will the Black Church Break Its Silence on AIDS? May 1, 2001
- Those Who Are Christ in Our Midst April 1, 2001
- Looking for a Valentine That Fits February 1, 2001
- Biblically Challenged January 1, 2001
- Finding a Home for the Holidays December 1, 2000
- Oprah’s Good Intentions Are No Saving Grace November 1, 2000
- Young white men in crisis December 20th, 2012
- Finally, lives of black men on film December 12th, 2012
- Weary of the war on Christmas December 5th, 2012
- AP’s Discouraging ‘Homophobia’ Is Discouraging November 28th, 2012
- Revisiting Proposition 8 November 20th, 2012
- Malawi’s LGBT short-lived freedom November 14, 2012 November 14th, 2012
- O GLAD’s diversity work ctober 24th, 2012
- Latino Activists Join With Marriage Equality Activists… Will It Work? October 17th, 2012
- Gay boxer knocks out a stereotype October 10th, 2012
- A Month to Begin Anti-Bullying October 3rd, 2012
- Native American voters exploited by Brown and Warren September 26th, 2012
- Yunel Escobar Shocked ‘Fag’ Is a Slur September 19th, 2012
- NAGLY honors Bishop Gene Robinson September 12th, 2012
- Will Obama’s support of marriage equality keep some Blacks home on election day? September 6th, 2012
- Biden wows at P’Town fundraiser August 29th, 2012
- Nothing New in GOP’s Anti-Woman, Anti-Gay Platform August 22nd, 2012
- At 42, Paul Ryan Is Out of Step With His Generation August 15th, 2012
- Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas and that other n-word, nappy August 8th, 2012
- Men Can’t Compete in Synchronized Swimming? Really? August 1st, 2012
- July 26th, 2012 Will suspicion of “gender fraud†police LGBTQ Olympians?
- July 18th, 2012 What is black America’s endgame for HIV/AIDS?
- July 11th, 2012 R&B star Frank Ocean comes out
- June 26th, 2012 Dis-membering Stonewall
- June 20th, 2012 The Southern Baptist Convention Elects Its First African-American President… Will He Push an Anti-Gay Agenda?
- June 13th, 2012 South Africa’s “corrective rape†of lesbians
- June 6th, 2012 How’s Your “Gaydar”?
- May 30th, 2012 Shades of Nazi Germany?
- May 16th, 2012 Black Ministers Come Out on Obama’s Stance on Marriage
- May 9th, 2012 Obama Forced Out on Gay Marriage
- May 2nd, 2012 Richard Grenell Romney’s Gay Fall Guy
- April 25th, 2012 How Anti-Sodomy Laws Were Sunk
- April 18th, 2012 Obama and Romney Can’t Fence-Sit on Marriage Equality
- April 11th, 2012 The Hunger Games’ young racist fans
- April 4th, 2012 We are Trayvon Martin LGBTQ and African Americans united by murder
- March 21st, 2012 Bayard Rustin One of the Tallest Trees in Our Forest
- March 7th, 2012 It’s what — and not who — killed Whitney Houston
- February 29th, 2012 Maid in America
- February 27th, 2012 GUEST POST ONE LGBT-INCLUSIVE BLACK CHURCH IN BOSTON PAVES THE WAY
- February 15th, 2012 Cleo Manago The Most Dangerous Black Gay Man?
- February 7th, 2012 Lauding a black “reconciling and inclusive” church
- February 4th, 2012 Do We Still Need to Celebrate Black History Month?
- January 25th, 2012 Robert Champion Death Hazing or Hate Crime?
- January 16th, 2012 MLK Day Reflection for LGBTQ Justice in the Black Church
- January 11th, 2012 A Sister Outsider in “Pariah”
- January 4th, 2012 Black LGBTQs finding voice for the future
- December 21st, 2011 2011 The war on Christmas continues
- December 14th, 2011 Black LGBTQ community doesn’t support its own
- December 7th, 2011 The messology of Bishop Eddie Long continues
- November 22nd, 2011 Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving
- November 16th, 2011 Queer politics for the birds
- November 9th, 2011 Black homophobic horror flicks
- November 2nd, 2011 Transgender, victimized and black
- October 26th, 2011 Halloween Our American gay holiday
- October 19th, 2011 Presbyterian Church’s Ordination of Gays Bittersweet
- October 5th, 2011 The Past Is Never Dead With the N-Word
- September 28th, 2011 Flying While Gay
- September 21st, 2011 Repeal of DADT for LGB’s, but not T’s
- September 14th, 2011 Homophobe Tim Hardaway’s change of words
- August 31st, 2011 Chaz comes out dancing
- August 24th, 2011 Why can’t puppets Bert and Ernie marry?
- August 17th, 2011 The Media’s Outing of Queen Latifah
- August 10th, 2011 Where Were the Gays at Rick Perry’s Mega Prayerfest?
- August 3rd, 2011 NPR’s Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric
- July 27th, 2011 Massachusetts’ throw-away kids
- July 21st, 2011 Sheryl Swoopes’ engagement draws out our bi-phobia
- July 6th, 2011 Obama Harkens Back to Slavery With “States’ Rights” for Same-Sex Marriage
- June 29th, 2011 Tracy Morgan’s homophobic rant is about black manhood
- June 22nd, 2011 Provincetown’s not safe for black lesbians
- June 15th, 2011 Boston Pride events honored the late Rev. Peter Gomes
- June 8th, 2011 Pride celebrations? …Haven’t we assimilated?
- June 1st, 2011 Are we writers or gay writers?
- May 25th, 2011 In “Hot-lanta” you stay “in the closet” as CNN’s Don Lemon did
- May 18th, 2011 Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast is a Boston black queer tradition
- May 12th, 2011 All About Chaz
- May 4th, 2011 Marriage Equality Film Comes to Harlem
- April 22nd, 2011 America’s Gay Confederate and Union Soldiers
- April 6th, 2011 Malcolm X was “gay-for-pay”
- March 30th, 2011 The Gandhi none of us knew
- March 16th, 2011 Like Black Church, St. Patrick’s Day parades are anti-gay
- March 9th, 2011 Toxic cosmetics marketed to black women
- March 3rd, 2011 The Rev. Peter Gomes became the accidental gay advocate
- February 9th, 2011 Roots behind Vodou’s acceptance of gays
- February 2nd, 2011 “Womanist” and saying who we are
- January 26th, 2011 Finally, Black Civil Rights Movement Is Dying
- January 13th, 2011 Huck Finn’s n-word preserving artistic integrity or ethnic property rights?
- January 5th, 2011 Say what? Lesbian priests marrying each other!
- December 29th, 2010 Should Kwanzaa Stay in Black Neighborhoods?
- December 21st, 2010 Remember Our Homeless Gay Youth this Holiday
- December 15th, 2010 Oprah is not gay, folks!
- December 8th, 2010 Thumbs up for “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys”
- December 1st, 2010 AIDS still thought of as a gay disease in black America
- November 17th, 2010 Remembering Trans Heroine Rita Hester
- November 11th, 2010 Not only “For Colored Girls”
- October 20th, 2010 Re-introducing lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women of African descent
- October 6th, 2010 When will the homophobic bullying cease?
- September 29th, 2010 The messology of Bishop Eddie Long
- September 22nd, 2010 An executive order would repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
- September 15th, 2010 Will Tea Party climate repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell”?
- September 8th, 2010 Why Johnny can’t think critically
- August 25th, 2010 Reigning hip-hop’s Queen Latifah is outed
- August 18th, 2010 Can blacks rid themselves of the use of the n-word?
- August 4th, 2010 “Essence” Magazine’s true color
- July 29th, 2010 Another example of the black-white divide in our community
- July 14th, 2010 “Ex-gay” Donnie McClurkin at Boston’s Gospelfest
- July 6th, 2010 Did You Barbecue Pig or Pug This Fourth?
- June 30th, 2010 Are We Not Patriots, Too?
- June 10th, 2010 A Pride Event Not to Be Proud of
- June 2nd, 2010 Obama shifting responsibly for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- May 26th, 2010 Theory of Blacks’ Intellectual Inferiority Rears Ugly Head at Harvard
- May 19th, 2010 Cheating Harvard
- May 13th, 2010 Lena Horne was more than skin-deep
- May 5th, 2010 Country star Chely Wright comes out and joins Faith in America
- April 28th, 2010 ROTC Marching Back onto Harvard’s Campus
- April 21st, 2010 Gay Community Loses Black Civil Rights ally Dorothy Height
- April 14th, 2010 The Catholic Church Needs Its Gay Priests
- April 1st, 2010 The Pope’s Pedophilic Church
- March 24th, 2010 ObamaCare Passed Passing Up Reproductive Justice
- March 18th, 2010 Jamaica’s Gay Underground Christians
- March 10th, 2010 Black Motherhood Lost at the Oscars
- March 3rd, 2010 Black Community’s Division on Abortion Ad Campaign
- February 16th, 2010 Black and Queer in Nazi Germany
- February 10th, 2010 Honoring Notorious Gladys Bentley
- February 2nd, 2010 Do We Still Need to Celebrate Black History Month?
- January 27th, 2010 Will Faith-Based Agencies Help Haiti’s Gay Community?
- January 20th, 2010 Pat Robertson’s Haitian Theodicy
- January 14th, 2010 Would King Have Spoken Out on LGBTQ Justice?
- January 7th, 2010 Black Gays Invited to White House
- December 22nd, 2009 The Right’s Bogus War on Christmas
- December 13th, 2009 Rev. Mary Glasspool and Next Steps for the Episcopal Church
- December 12th, 2009 Election of Lesbian Priest Spurs Racial and Queer Divide in Episcopal Church
- December 9th, 2009 Lesbian Priest Re-ignites Church Storm
- December 2nd, 2009 Remembering my sisters this month
- November 22nd, 2009 Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving
- November 18th, 2009 Pastor Donnie McClurkin’s Gay Church
- November 5th, 2009 Will Rev. Bernice King’s bully pulpit at SCLC bash gays?
- October 28th, 2009 Child witches and LGBTQ youth
- October 7th, 2009 Out of My Black Church, Into the Streets
- October 1st, 2009 Black Queers Tying Knot
- September 24th, 2009 The Conversation America Won’t Have on Race
- September 10th, 2009 Black Episcopal Congregation Celebrates Lesbian Marriage
- July 22nd, 2009 Living While Black in Cambridge
- July 15th, 2009 Let the Episcopal Church Say Amen
- July 8th, 2009 The Queerness of Michael Jackson
- June 24th, 2009 Obama’s upcoming hush-hush damage control meeting with gay leaders
- June 1st, 2009 Obama not marching with Black Pride
- May 27th, 2009 Proposition Hate Redux
- May 25th, 2009 Who celebrates our queer servicemembers on Memorial Day?
- April 29th, 2009 When queer communities of color are not needed to win marriage rights
- February 24th, 2009 With son’s sex arrest queries resurfaces about Bishop T. D. Jakes’s sexuality
- February 4th, 2009 Ted Haggard’s issues with his homosexuality
- January 22nd, 2009 Obama pimp-slaps queer community by omitting Robinson’s invocation
- January 13th, 2009 Obama’s inauguration brings mixed feelings for many Black LGBTQ Americans
- December 16th, 2008 Gay is NOT the new Black
- November 12th, 2008 Race, Religion, and Proposition 8
- November 11th, 2008 Proposition 8 is Not About Black Homophobia
- October 7th, 2008 Que(e)rying The Candidates
- October 2nd, 2008 A Failed Economy Hurts the GLBT Community More
- October 2nd, 2008 Is Palin the GOP Drag Queen?
- September 17th, 2008 RE By Dissing Palin, Oprah Hurts Obama
- September 11th, 2008 By Dissing Palin, Does Oprah Hurt Obama?
- August 27th, 2008 Obama Owes Hillary Some “R-E-S-P-E-C-T!â€
- August 21st, 2008 A history lesson
- August 19th, 2008 Women Olympians Deserve Better Than This
- August 12th, 2008 Homophobia and the F-word
- August 7th, 2008 Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
- July 31st, 2008 Can’t Stand Out to be Counted
- July 16th, 2008 The New Yorker Lampooning of Barack Obama Insults Muslims
- July 9th, 2008 Obama’s Turn to the Right Leaves Out Poor LGBTQ Americans
- July 7th, 2008 Can gun-toting solve gay-bashing?
- June 25th, 2008 Black Media Fails Its LGBTQ Community
- June 11th, 2008 A More Perfect Union Bishop Robinson Marries
- June 10th, 2008 Bishop Robinson says “I do!”
- June 9th, 2008 The Bishop’s Bittersweet Day
- June 4th, 2008 AIDS Action Steps Up Its Walk
- May 27th, 2008 Can a Morehouse College Man be openly gay?
- May 27th, 2008 Black Pride parties to a different beat
- May 20th, 2008 A Fleeting Moment of Democracy for California’s Same-Sex Couples
- May 6th, 2008 Marriage Equality Movement Mother Dies
- April 29th, 2008 Obama’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
- April 24th, 2008 GLAD Talks AIDS Epidemic/Politics of Invisibility at Forum
- April 8th, 2008 Cornel West calls Obama out for dissing King tribute
- March 25th, 2008 June Jordan Boundary Crosser
- March 20th, 2008 Re “If Obama can throw his pastor under the bus, what will he do to us?”
- March 19th, 2008 If Obama can throw his pastor under the bus, what will he do to us?
- March 15th, 2008 Tituba – The Black Witch of Salem
- March 8th, 2008 LGBTQ Community Too Sharp For Recycled Propaganda
- February 26th, 2008 Valaida Snow Black and queer in Nazi Germany?!
- February 12th, 2008 Is Obama on the ‘down low’ with the LGBTQ Community?
- January 28th, 2008 Obama’s playing us stupid
- January 16th, 2008 King’s vision on healing injustice
- January 8th, 2008 I didn’t wake up dead
- December 4th, 2007 AIDS hits too close to home for many black women
- November 20th, 2007 Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving
- November 6th, 2007 The Episcopal Church’s real issue is not Bishop Gene Robinson
- October 31st, 2007 Obama dancing to the wrong tune
- October 23rd, 2007 Obama the vote-whore with ‘ex-gay’ at his side
- October 10th, 2007 McCain promotes his “Christian Nation”
- September 27th, 2007 Jena 6′s black leadership splits queer community
- September 11th, 2007 By backing Obama, Oprah leaves queers behind
- August 29th, 2007 Conflict in the Presbyterian Church
- August 23rd, 2007 Emergency Contraception and African American women
- August 14th, 2007 Popping the Question to the Candidates
- August 8th, 2007 Will the HRC-Logo debate be a white queer public soliloquy?
- July 17th, 2007 Black Community’s Throw-away Kids
- July 2nd, 2007 Supreme Court Decision Limits all Student Rights
- June 21st, 2007 Gulf between black, gay communities narrowing
- June 8th, 2007 The Anglican Communion’s fall guy
- May 25th, 2007 Diocesan Convention Sermon
- May 22nd, 2007 The King family’s mixed legacy
- May 10th, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre’s invisible gay angles
- April 30th, 2007 Ted Haggard’s not fooling anyone
- April 26th, 2007 Imus comments homophobic as well
- April 12th, 2007 Barack’s marriage equality Obama-nation
- April 11th, 2007 Last laugh not worth the price
- March 29th, 2007 Jamaica’s dangerous down-low closet
- March 29th, 2007 McMillian pummels Plummer for being gay
- March 22nd, 2007 The moral power of gay dollars
- March 22nd, 2007 The battle on the home front
- March 1st, 2007 What defines being “articulate”
- March 1st, 2007 Gay magazine sells its soul to ‘ex-gay’ forces
- March 1st, 2007 Amaechi vs. Hardaway the battle of homophobia in sports
- February 7th, 2007 Oprah’s good intentions
- February 1st, 2007 Life imitates art for Isaiah Washington
- January 19th, 2007 Gene Robinson is our Martin Luther King
- January 17th, 2007 Black gay Cambridge mayor hunted by local press
- January 16th, 2007 King’s vision of justice starts within
- January 12th, 2007 Carrying on King’s legacy
- January 11th, 2007 Carrying on King’s legacy
- January 4th, 2007 Will Mary’s child be left behind?
- December 6th, 2006 Kramer, the n-word and the ‘queer’ community
- November 29th, 2006 N-word Beyond blaming Kramer
- November 22nd, 2006 Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving
- November 8th, 2006 Sex, lies and the Republican Party
- October 25th, 2006 Barack Obama is no great political hope
- October 23rd, 2006 Majoring in discrimination
- October 11th, 2006 Foley’s follies and the Republicans’ quest for power
- September 27th, 2006 Dianne ‘Lady D’ Wilkerson still standing
- September 13th, 2006 The truth about Islam
- August 31st, 2006 Katrina’s Queer Victims Still Suffering
- August 2nd, 2006 When Hate Speech Becomes Accepted
- July 19th, 2006 HIV Profiling Symptom of a Sick Society
- July 3rd, 2006 Church’s Code Keeps Jesus on the “Down Low”
- July 3rd, 2006 We too are patriots
- June 20th, 2006 It’s her church now
- May 25th, 2006 The other code
- May 9th, 2006 Like Rustin, I Support Immigrants
- May 3rd, 2006 When my own newspaper gets it wrong
- April 24th, 2006 We who are left behind
- April 20th, 2006 Breakfast forum on HIV issues, April 22 in Boston
- April 13th, 2006 The GOP’s antigay pitch to blacks
- April 11th, 2006 The Immorality of Banning Gay Adoption
- March 14th, 2006 History Months’ Biases on Display
- February 26th, 2006 An Open Letter to the African American Community on Marriage Equality
- February 16th, 2006 No “New Wineskin” in Sharpton’s Rhetoric
- February 15th, 2006 In a Loving spirit
- January 4th, 2006 A Queer Year in the Black Community
- December 20th, 2005 The Right’s Phony War on Christmas
- December 4th, 2005 “Love Won Out” Masks Message of Hate
- November 24th, 2005 All That We Have to Be Thankful for
- November 8th, 2005 Christianity and The Advocate
- October 12th, 2005 After Storms, Faith-based Homophobia Blows In
- October 7th, 2005 Harvard versus the military
- July 27th, 2005 Note to Bush No Biblical Bias for New Justice
- June 28th, 2005 Book Banning Is Not a Moral Value
- June 2nd, 2005 Farrakhan’s Nation of Homophobia to March Again
- April 27th, 2005 Benedict XVI, Spiritual Gay-basher
- April 4th, 2005 Congress’ Exploitation of Terri Schiavo
- March 25th, 2005 The Lie of Living “On the Down Low”
- February 15th, 2005 Defining the movement for same-sex marriage
- February 7th, 2005 Racial Divide in Queer Communities on Marriage Debate
- January 14th, 2005 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Expansive Dream
- January 3rd, 2005 Embracing the Bastard Jesus
