Generations of Pride: White House Hosts Panel on LGBT Stories
On June 27, I had the pleasure of attending “Generations of Pride: A Celebration of LGBT Stories” at the White House. The auditorium was... Read More
The Humanist Hour #103: The Myth of Gay Reparative Therapy with Dr. Michael LaSala
Click here to download an audio file of this podcast. In this episode, Bo interviews Dr. Michael LaSala on the topic of reparative therapy—attempts... Read More
Uganda Passes Stricter Anti-LGBT Laws
Hatred and fear of homosexuality has become more aggressive and normalized in many African countries, and for the second time this month, an African... Read More
The Humanist Hour #62: Candace Gingrich-Jones: LGBT Humanist Pride
A new episode of the Humanist Hour is available for listening. Keep reading to find out about the guests on this month's show. In this... Read More
Speaking of Sex An interview with psychologist Christopher Ryan, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Christopher Ryan received a BA in English and American literature from Saybrook University in San Francisco, California, in 1984 and returned twenty years later... Read More
What Next for Gay Marriage?
Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a... Read More
Plato, Romance, and Self-Inquiry
If philosophy has all along proclaimed the unexamined life to be not worth living, it seems not yet to have grasped that the unloving... Read More
Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A progressive Christian response
More often than not, conservatives represent the internal Christian debate over the ethics of homosexuality as if it were between those who hold firm... Read More
Matches Made on Earth: Why Family Values are Human Values
The term “family values,” the importance of which fundamentalist Christians have been preaching for decades, continues to permeate religious and political printed matter and... Read More
Chipping Away at the Bench How we failed the judiciary in Iowa
Voter anger took a new form as the results of Iowa’s November 2010 midterm elections were revealed. In a real-life twist that would make... Read More