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Workshop: how to engage on the topic of race and LGBT civil rights
A reader of my blog named Kevin wrote me the other day to say that he is interested in building bridges with people of color (POC) about race and equality but doesn’t know how to engage when the conversation turns tense. I asked if I could post his letter to…
Black and gay — and reclaiming ‘civil rights’
As someone who is black and lesbian, it’s tiring and absurd to encounter the argument that the black civil rights movement somehow exclusively owns the ability to use “civil rights.” And the result of that is any challenge to this thinking amounts to stepping on the third rail. There is…
Huckabee: gay rights movement hasn’t had enough skulls cracked to earn civil rights
It’s nice to see rapist/murderer-releasing ex-governor, Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree and failed GOP prez candidate Mike Huckabee engaging in the Oppression Olympics when it comes to doling out civil rights. In this appearance on The View, the former Arkansas chief executive thinks homos should get a taste of the Bull Connor violence…
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