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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Homophobia’s Legacy
20 years ago today, Magic Johnson came out as having HIV. It created a seismic shift in how mainstream and conservative America prioritized the funding of fighting AIDS. The fact that it took a heterosexual athletic celebrity to come out, however courageous Magic Johnson was in doing so, is in itself a tragedy. The worldwide AIDS epidemic could have been severely limited had it not been for homophobia. The greatest legacy of homophobia is NOT the prevention of marriage equality, it’s people in poor nations dying of AIDS without any medicine and dying alone, stigmatized by their communities. And it’s a legacy of gay men in New York City and San Francisco dying miserably and alone watching an American public watch them suffer and die without caring at all.
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Posted in LGBTQ
Faith, Science, and Existence
I express my feelings around the ubiquity of faith in everything, including what so many people mistakenly believe is the enemy of faith: the scientific method. Rather than seeing our inevitable need for faith as some kind of never ending existential prison, I argue that it is some kind of never ending existential key.
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Posted in Philosophical Musings
Julian and Jose Vargas: Continuing the Story of Undocumented Immigrants
Julian takes a field trip to the National College Media Convention in Orlando, FL, and meets Jose Vargas. Vargas is an important award-winning journalist that has recently come out as an undocumented immigrant and is advocating immigration reform. Check out this amazing footage, and tell us what you think in the comments!
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