It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.

I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.

Are you?” I said. “Gay, I mean?” -I hoped he wasn’t offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know.”No,” he said. “I thought I was for about a...

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation’s goal should be to understand the other...

I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he’d step into my room after...

Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of “the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally.” Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from...

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It’s all a matter of perspective.

If you don’t know for sure, then what’s the big thing about trying stuff out?” Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn’t have any of...

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage...

Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document,...

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

From the standpoint of integrity, I think we all need to own up to our dirty little secrets. I believe that when we are open about our own strange desires or unusual lives, it paves...

One can learn from what is not said.

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can’t it just be what it is?

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.

Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic...