It’s not easy to get at the facts behind the scandalized tone of this report, other than the central one that some sort of marriage ceremony for two men took place in Kumasi, Ghana. Kumasi GPRTU shocked over gay marriage…
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Gay Pride, Warsaw- In the 16 th Century!
Most Pride celebrations are local, for a specific city or town. In Europe, things are a little different. Every year, one city is selected for a continental celebration, drawing in visitors from right across the continent for Euro Pride. A…
The Saints & Martyrs of Stonewall
Devotion to the saints is one of the most characteristic features of Catholic culture – but just who are the “saints”? The best known are those officially recognised by the church, those who have been formally canonized and listed in…
Queer Saints & Martyrs
The recognition of saints is an important part of Catholic history and tradition. Growing up in a Catholic school, I was frequently urged to read the lives of the saints, of which our small school library had a copious supply,…
Gays in the Military: Japan
Now that DADT is finally under serious review, it is once again appropriate to consider how other military regimens deal or have dealt with with their queer members – or aspirant members. As I have noted before, across the EU…
Homoerotic Christianity: The Medieval Flowering
In the modern popular imagination, the middle ages have generally had a bad press, compared unfavourably with the classical civilizations which preceded it, the Renaissance flowering which followed it – or even the Islamic and Byzantine centres of scholarship and…
Epaminondas: Military Hero, Democrat & Liberator, Cultured Statesman. Gay.
Epaminondas lived before the Christian era, outside the Jewish tradition, and has no claim whatsoever to be treated as a “saints in any literal sense. However, taking the term much more loosely, including those we might consider as role models,…
Gay Soldiers? Role Models, at the Foundation of Democracy.
From this side of the Atlantic, the continued reluctance to do away with DADT seems odd, at best… In the UK, gay men and lesbians not only serve freely and openly in the armed services and in the police, but…
“Homosexuality & Civilization”: on Reading Louis Crompton.
There are many good books available on homosexuality in history, and thank God for that. These have a range of approaches, including scholarly, specialist tomes, more accessible pen-portraits of single notable people, or of single eras or regions. There is…
“Burned for Sodomy” -The Changing Legal Framework of the Great Persecution
1212, France: In Paris the penalty for sodomy is fixed at death. This is the first secular law to criminalize sodomy since the Spanish Visagoth law of 654. It is the first to prescribe the death penalty. 1259 Bologna (Italy): punishment…
