racial conversation

I was among those who took to Twitter Saturday night to voice my feelings when the verdict came in on the trial of George Zimmerman. Shocked, stunned, angry, sad. Pick an adjective and it likely applied to the whirlwind of emotions swirling in me and all over Twitter among those who supported Trayvon Martin’s family.

This week during the livestream of SheWired's The Gloves Are Off, join the conversation with our favorite lesbian pair, Cathy DeBuono and Jill Bennett, to continue last week's topics and discuss racial profiling. This Thursday at 7:00 PM PST.

In the wake of the devastating passage of Proposition 8 in California, analysts were quick to assign blame, with many commonly citing exit polls that attributed the loss of same-sex marriage to African-American voters. Opposition from racial minorities and other factors, such as the assumption of support from white Democratic voters, have come to inform the Prop. 8 conversation since the discriminatory ballot measure, which repealed same-sex marriage rights, passed in November 2008, but a new report questions the accepted wisdom and suggests other reasons for the outcome, some of them surprising.

February 1 begins Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African-Americans. Within the African- American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, Black History Month has always come under criticism.

For this black, gay, Christian, masculine-presenting female athlete, her relationship with God provides a safe space.

In her ongoing series of columns writer Taj Paxton introduces SheWired readers to Dr. Mignon Moore, also known as 'Professor Hottie.' Moore shares her views on Prop 8, the use of 'Civil Rights' to describe the gay marriage movement and more...

After a Unitarian Universalist minister wrote a pro-LGBT letter to the editor of an area newspaper, her church got an anonymous homophobic note.

Since the liberal arm of the U.S. Episcopal Church passed a resolution in July to bless same-sex unions, particularly in states like Massachusetts that legalize such marriages, so too has, at least, one black congregation within the Massachusetts diocese. On August 30th St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Cambridge housed the marriage and blessed the union of its mayor E. Denise Simmons and her lifetime partner, Ms. Mattie Hayes.