When God No Longer Hates Fags
The very mention of the name, ‘Westboro Baptist Church’ induces a fierce anger in the best of us. An acrid taste at the back of the throat. These are the group who carry around the ‘God hates Fags’...
View ArticleFor the Christian part of me…I am sorry
I stood at the back of the bar and listened to the lament of the poet. A sorrowful keening of being misunderstood, of being told that who he was simply was not ‘right’. The crack in his voice and the...
View ArticleWhere Have all the Penises Gone?
I am writing this from Rome, the epicentre of the empire that was. Today was spent walking around Vatican City, the religious epicentre of the empire that was. Aside from the grand spectacle of the...
View ArticleThe Pain of Moving Forward
Too many of us walk with no limp. No scars nor broken bones. We have not seen the dark of night nor stood against its cold shoulder. We are comfort and we are lounge chair. We are stuck. Our limbs have...
View ArticleUpon the Walls of Palestine
I have walked the length and breadth of many a wall over this past year but there are three that stand out decidedly more than all the others. They are the ‘Peace wall’ of Belfast, the ‘Separation wall...
View ArticleFor the Christian part of me…I am sorry
I stood at the back of the bar and listened to the lament of the poet. A sorrowful keening of being misunderstood, of being told that who he was simply was not ‘right’. The crack in his voice and the...
View ArticleWhere Have all the Penises Gone?
I am writing this from Rome, the epicentre of the empire that was. Today was spent walking around Vatican City, the religious epicentre of the empire that was. Aside from the grand spectacle of the...
View ArticleThe Pain of Moving Forward
Too many of us walk with no limp. No scars nor broken bones. We have not seen the dark of night nor stood against its cold shoulder. We are comfort and we are lounge chair. We are stuck. Our limbs have...
View ArticleUpon the Walls of Palestine
I have walked the length and breadth of many a wall over this past year but there are three that stand out decidedly more than all the others. They are the ‘Peace wall’ of Belfast, the ‘Separation wall...
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