San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

Three-thousand women are returning home from the UN after a unique opportunity to share insights and listen to one another. The question remains simply: Were they talking to themselves, or did the world hear about their courage, achievements and their cries?

The takeaway from the UN Commission on the Status of Women is simply to continue to organize at the grassroots level and build as many alliances and shared projects as we can, especially around meaningful work and deeper conversations and projects with the faith community.

The anti-gay law that was used to destroy Alan Turing’s life and career was still in operation in Britain and Ireland when I was growing up and it was not until 1967 that it was repealed in Britain and a few years later in Northern Ireland.

The courageous stories of four exceptional women who have made a commitment to gender and LGBT equality and the positive and negative implications for their religious faith.

The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle explains the important significance of the Roman Catholic Synod on the Family.

The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, a distinguished man of the cloth who has an international pulpit in his quest to further LGBT rights on a global scale and a pastor who is as comfortable caring for people with HIV in remote parts of Africa as hobnobbing with former President Bill Clinton, is leaving his post at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral for a new calling on the East Coast.

The complex of buildings, the memorial museum and fountains all create a secure space where deeper contemplation is invited and protected. It is not only a place of wounded memory, but it is a tribute to all that is positive about being human. This is clearly not what the terrorists had in mind 13 years ago, on a day we cannot forget.

Your sense (and cents) can help grassroots groups caring for the LGBT community in countries that are anti-gay.

Grassroots organizations like Youth on the Rock Foundation hold the solutions to the issues the HIV/AIDS experts grapple with, and our personal donations can make a huge difference.

With all of these challenges this week across the globe, a few people have asked me the courageous question: “How could God allow this to happen?”