U.S. Marine Charged with Murder of Trans Filipina Woman
Despite protests from Philippine LGBT rights groups, the American Marine suspected of killing Jennifer Laude Sueselbeck has remained in U.S. custody and now officially faces murder changes.
Mitch Kellaway
www.advocate.com/world/2014/10/15/us-marine-charged-murder-trans-filipina-woman
What Will The Synod Really Mean For LGBT People In The Catholic Church? "All Together' Podcast
Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how religious ideas and spiritual practice inform and shape our personal lives, our communities and our world. The show is hosted by Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the Executive Editor of HuffPost Religion.
Bishops from around the world gathered at the Vatican this last week to participate in the two week long Synod on the Family. A working document reflecting the discussions at the midway point was quickly described as revolutionary, and ‘an earthquake’ for it’s new pastoral language towards gay people and couples who live together before marriage. While not a change in doctrine, the document included such surprising phrases as:
“Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer the Christian community: are we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a further space in our communities?”
And in reference to same-sex couples the document said:
“It has to be noted that there are cases in which mutual aid to the point of sacrifice constitutes a precious support in the life of the partners”
And for straight couples who are living together before marriage the document said there are:
“positive aspects” of such unions, especially if the couple saw them as a prelude to marriage in the Church.”
While applauded by many, the new pastoral tone was not universally embraced; with some bloggers describing the new approach represented in the document as ‘perverted’ and others saying it was “irredeemable.”
This week the Bishops are back at work considering the document and revising it, in the meantime I spoke three Catholics — Father Jim Martin, Jesuit Priest and author of Jesus a Pilgrimage, David Gibson, Reporter for Religion News Service, and Sister Monica, who is a nun whose ministry is with the trans community — to get their reactions on the potential new moment in the Catholic Church. As Pope Francis said in his homily before the document was released: ‘God is always new.. he always surprises us’
As always, All Together ends with Raushenbush’s picks for this weeks Saints and Sinners.
LISTEN TO EARLIER ALL TOGETHER SEGMENTS BELOW
‘WHAT’S THE REAL REASON TO DO YOGA’ HERE:
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MEDITATION?
RAPTURE RHAPSODY: IS LEFT BEHIND REALLY A CHRISTIAN MOVIE?
GREEN SPIRIT vs CLIMATE CHANGE
CONFRONTING FUNDAMENTALISM
Betty Who Throws Shade Like A Seasoned Pro As We Quiz Her On Gay Culture
Someone laminate Betty Who’s gay card, because she earned impressively high marks when she sat down for our very first Queerty Query interview.
Werq, throwing shade, and Wentworth Miller were just some of the subjects she aced. We’ll forgive her for not knowing what Scruff is.
Betty recently hosted the GayCities Stoli Guy Finale in New York, and before the big show we got a chance to sit down with the budding pop star to see just how well she understands the lives of her gay fans.
Take a look:
Dan Tracer
Out Queer Actor Ezra Miller To Play 'The Flash' In Warner Bros. Franchise
Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being A Wallflower, We Need To Talk About Kevin) will play comics character The Flash in Warner Brothers/DC Comics’ superhero franchise that will include a solo feature coming in 2018. BuzzFeed reports:
Miller will star in a stand-alone movie of The Flash in 2018, after presumably appearing in Justice League Part One in 2017 from director by Zack Snyder, who is also helming 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. (This is not to be confused with The CW’s television series The Flash, which stars Grant Gustin and exists in a separate fictional universe.)
Warner Bros. also announced a full slate of feature films based on DC Comics, including a 2020 stand-alone film for Cyborg, starring Broadway actor Ray Fisher. In the current ecosystem of officially announced superhero movies, it would be the first time a black actor has headlined his own superhero movie based on a comic book since 2004’s Blade: Trinity. (To be fair, Michael B. Jordan is part of the ensemble in 20th Century Fox’s reboot of The Fantastic Four, but Fisher would be his film’s ostensible solo star.)
Miller came out as queer back in 2012 to Out Magazine, saying,
“I’m queer. I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. I am very much in love with no one in particular. I’ve been trying to figure out relationships, you know? I don’t know if it’s responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don’t think we’re ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that’s what you’re supposed to be looking for. Then [when] we find what we think is love — even if it is love — we do not yet have the tools. I do feel that it’s possible to be at this age unintentionally hurtful, just by being irresponsible — which is fine. I’m super down with being irresponsible. I’m just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people. That’s where I’m at in the boyfriend/girlfriend/zefriend type of question.”
The CW’s iteration of The Flash is currently in its first season and stars Grant Gustin as the eponymous hero (formerly the promiscuous gay warbler on Glee).
Sean Mandell
Abran la mente a la comunidad LGBT
Buenk yo soy la tamii estrenando el miercoles de odio sienta se libres de descargarse y esi hasta mañana.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6veqbJALj3E&feature=youtube_gdata
A Drag Queen Queers Shakespeare
Yes, even Shakespeare must be queered (well, it’s already been done, but I’m going to do it again). And what better way to queer Shakespeare than by having a Drag Queen do it (a Drag Queen is a symbol for going against the status quo). But I prefer to “lavenderize” or “bend” Shakespeare because I’m not a fan of post-structuralist queer theory (I disagree with most of it; I rather a Social Queer Theory or a Critical Queer Theory or a New Queer Theory a la Max H. Kirsch and Michael Hames-Garcia). So, my poem lavenderizes Shakespeare. It is titled “A Drag Queen Writes to William Shakespeare” and it responds to Sonnet #78, and was published in the book, Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed, edited by D. Gilson, published by Clemson University’s Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies and Parlor Press.
“A Drag Queen Writes to William Shakespeare”
Hey, Billy Boy,
Gurl, I’m happy to be your muse
But where the fuck you been?
I haven’t seen you at any of my shows
You’re making this queen angry
Just sayin’
I’m flattered by your poems about me
Werk!
Yeah, I know I’m sickening
And yeah the other writers love me too
What can I say, I muthafuckin’ fabulous
But seriously, gurl, get off your ass
Put down the pen
Stop writing for one day
And come see me and the other queens
We miss you
It’s not like your writing any masterpieces
You can’t spend every day alone writing poems
Plus I rather you flatter me in person
My ego needs some stroking as does my…
Well, you know… when it ain’t tucked
Anyway, gurl, just being real
You can’t live your entire life in books
No T, No shade
The library is open and I don’t mean yours
Bam!
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