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Remember, back in the olden days of late January 2017, when Sean Spicer and a host of other administration cronies promised that Trump was a steadfast ally of LGBT Americans, and that there were no…

Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern published an important scoop on Friday, revealing that the U.S. Supreme Court had formally reprimanded two right-wing, anti-LGBTQ groups for misgendering the teenage…

As Inauguration Day nears, and as our new, orange-tinted reality sets in, it behooves all Americans who believe in fairness and equality to take stock of what we’re up against — because that’s how we…

“Religious freedom” is a tactic that has worked for powerful straight white men for centuries—why switch it up now?

One of the nation’s largest campus ministries has demanded that its LGBT-affirming staff quit by November 11th.

A new religious freedom battle has been brewing in California, but you probably haven’t heard of it yet. The Golden State’s Christian colleges and universities are up in arms over SB 1146, a Senate…

Did I really need to learn How To Be Here, urgently, right now? The book’s publisher had sent me not one advance reading copy, but three. A sign from the universe? I decided to read the book to find…

Donald Trump’s bizarre rise seems to be, as new research suggests, the result of an increasing American attraction to authoritarian leadership. I’d like to suggest that if “a desire for order and a…

An interview with journalist and activist Frederick Clarkson

When Professor Larycia Hawkins of Wheaton College publicly announced her solidarity with Muslims by wearing a hijab through the holiday season—and stated that Christians and Muslims worship the “same…