Two ways to get engaged: Police/ LGBTQ Community Relations
I want to highlight two avenues for anyone, but especially members of the LGBTQ community to become more engaged with Public Safety in Pittsburgh.
Archive for June, 2014
Was there Police Brutality at Pittsburgh Pride 2014?
Ultimately, what can be done to insure that the LGBTQ community receives the appropriate treatment and support of the Pittsburgh Police in each and every situation?
Grindr, Disease and Shaming Gay Sex
we need to quit trying to rely on fear tactics and start promoting honest disclosure and less shame around sex if we are going to make any improvement and health within our community.
Father’s Day as a childless gay man.
Trans issues have been as much in the queer news as marriage equality, and today is one of two days which seem to focus in gender roles: Father’s Day. When I came out to my grandmother, she was very supportive, but she expressed sadness that I wouldn’t have children and then when I was her age, I wouldn’t have kids or grandkids- that my family would shrink over time instead of being expanded by births.[Read More…]
Can Pride help us refocus LGBTQ efforts?
The idea of “winning” and beating down our opponents is a powerful desire that many appreciate. And here I am claiming that it is the wrong way to go. Empowering people is the real path to success, even if it is hard at some points to see the progress or success it is causing.
Thomas’ 10 Tips for Getting the Most from Pride
Remember that the real value of Pride, isn’t just what happens at Pride or during Pride month, but the value is found in the ways we carry that celebration, energy, resolve, self awareness and love into the entire rest of the year and all aspects of our life! Now, get out there and make the most of Pride!
A Gay Man Sees Noises Off!
Noises Off! is one hilariously insane comedy that ought to have even the grumpiest curmudgeon belly laughing.
Boswell, History, and Women
There was one element of Boswell’s preface I didn’t mention in my previous post because it deserves commentary of its own. Even Boswell devotes less than 100 words even though it is really a huge deal. He puts it this way; History was written by men about men, and where women are mentioned, it is generally peripherally. In a big way therefore, any discussion about the Bible and homosexuality, isn’t really about Sexual Orientation or[Read More…]
Boswell, History, and Theology: the preface.
So often, the preface isn’t all that important, and it is easy to skip ahead to where the actual book begins and start reading, but in the case of Boswell’s “Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century,” that would be a mistake. The premise laid out within his preface is crucially important to grasp , and so I want to devote[Read More…]