How do I help a gay friend?Right then... I'm being nice here: Ask him.Maybe your friend wants your help and maybe he doesn't. Maybe he needs your help and maybe he doesn't. Maybe you can actually help him and maybe you're pretty much powerless.I don't know.I do know that you'll not be finding a reasonable answer to that here... or pretty much anywhere else that Google will send you. It's not that I don't like Google... I do. Google is a fine way to find things on the Internet.What you're looking for isn't on the Internet.If you really want to ...

This just boggles the mind: You may or may not have heard the story of Webster Cook, a University of Central Florida student who decided to be funny, and smuggle the Eucharist out of a Catholic mass, rather than eat it. Cook’s plan, which seems about average in terms of wacky college schemes, triggered horrible cries of outrage and indignation, for his horrible desecration of the Body of Christ… It also led to death threats against Cook. ( Shakesville ) I can’t go anywhere near the doctrine of transubstantiation or the beliefs of the offended that Mr. Cook walked out of the ...

It’s been a while since I’ve made any updates to the LGBT Hate Crimes Project. Honestly? The project requires more research and writing than I have time to do right now. So, though there are more stories I want to add, it just hasn’t happened. And even some of the cases I’ve written up so far need updating that I haven’t gotten a chance to do. (In fact, I almost didn’t get the chance this time. Right after I wrote the previous sentences —the first tiny bit of writing I’d been able to do all day — at about ...