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The ‘Religious Liberty’ Bullies and Their Fight Against LGBT Equality

March 18, 2013 in Daily Beast

The Movement To Rebrand Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

March 18, 2013 in Forward

Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights

March 18, 2013 in Political Research Associates

The Wrong Way To Fight BDS

February 21, 2013 in Forward

Orthodox Rabbis Say Gay ‘Cure’ Therapy Doesn’t Work

December 01, 2012 in Daily Beast

What’s next for gay marriage: Conservatism

November 10, 2012 in Salon

Straight Talk About Gay Marriage: 4 Points for Undecided Voters to Consider

October 31, 2012 in Huffington Post

DOMA Ruling Seems Good For Gays, But Supreme Court May Not Buy It

October 18, 2012 in Daily Beast

The Way I Was

October 08, 2012 in Forward

LGBT New Yorkers Need to Hold Our Enemies Accountable (And Let’s Start With Greg Ball)

September 26, 2012 in Huffington Post

Blue Jays Suspend Yunel Escobar for Gay Slur, But That’s Not the Real Issue

September 20, 2012 in Daily Beast

When Jesus Healed a Same-Sex Partner

August 07, 2012 in Huffington Post

When the Right Is Right About the Left

July 30, 2012 in Forward

Media Ignores Rash of Assaults on Transgender Women

June 06, 2012 in Daily Beast

How to Tell Love From Hate: The Bible vs. Pastor Charles Worley

May 24, 2012 in Huffington Post

30-Day Sentence for Dharun Ravi in Rutgers Spying Case Is Right

May 21, 2012 in Daily Beast

Traditional Marriage: One Man, Many Women, Some Girls, Some Slaves

May 16, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Announcement: A Victory for Religion

May 09, 2012 in Huffington Post

Could an African LGBT Activist Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

May 05, 2012 in Daily Beast

Dan Savage Was Wrong, And So Was Amanda Marcotte At Slate

May 03, 2012 in Daily Beast

Is Dan Savage the Gay Santorum?

May 02, 2012 in Daily Beast

Israeli Conservative Movement Will Ordain Gay Rabbis

April 30, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”

April 19, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

An Anthem for LGBT Youth

April 08, 2012 in Forward

An Act of LGBT Censorship in Seattle

March 20, 2012 in Forward

Jury Did the Right Thing in Ravi Case

March 16, 2012 in Daily Beast

Why the Story of Adam and Eve Is Right and Kirk Cameron Is Wrong: The Religious Value of Love

March 12, 2012 in Huffington Post

Is It Fair to Punish Dharun Ravi Because Tyler Clementi Died?

March 12, 2012 in Newsweek

You Can’t Pray the Gay Away

February 24, 2012 in Forward

All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us

February 23, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

It’s Schadenfreude Time: Santorum Messes Up the Republican Party

February 08, 2012 in Huffington Post

A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?

January 26, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

The Polyamory Trap

January 26, 2012 in Salon

‘Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life’ by Vivian Gornick

January 24, 2012 in Lambda Literary

In LGBT Debates, Discomfort Is Part of the Point

January 17, 2012 in Huffington Post

Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say “God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay”: Gay rights and the collapse of pseudo-secularism

January 09, 2012 in Religion Dispatches

Santorum’s Homophobia Problem

January 04, 2012 in Huffington Post

Why Does the Heckler Get a Veto?

December 20, 2011 in Forward

Why an Orthodox Anti-Gay Declaration is Actually Good for the Gays

November 30, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Pinkwashing Is Not Black and White

November 29, 2011 in Forward

The Gift of the Gay Rights Debate

November 14, 2011 in Tikkun

God, gay dichotomy must end

November 11, 2011 in Times Union

How Gay Rights Teaches Us Torah: Our Faith Grows Because Text Offers Room to Interpret Issues

November 04, 2011 in Forward

Dispelling the Myth of God versus Gay

November 01, 2011 in USA Today Magazine

Queer Repentance: On Not Surrendering to a Text, to Guilt, or to Habit

October 05, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt’ by Jon-Jon Goulian

September 14, 2011 in Lambda Literary

‘Dendrophile’ by Justin Vivian Bond

July 04, 2011 in Lambda Literary

What’s Between New York’s State Senate and Marriage Equality? About Fifteen Words

June 20, 2011 in Huffington Post

An Open Letter to State Senator Greg Ball About Marriage Equality and Religion

June 15, 2011 in Huffington Post

Whatever Works: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality: A Conversation with Mark Jordan

June 08, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Why 300 (Mostly Straight) Religious Leaders Are Gathering in Washington to Support LGBT Equality

May 22, 2011 in Huffington Post

Who are the Real Sodomites?

April 15, 2011 in Huffington Post

The Tea Party are Sodomites

February 14, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Gay and Orthodox: And Cleaving Strongly to Both

February 08, 2011 in Forward

Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue

January 18, 2011 in Religion Dispatches

Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground

November 18, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

Responding to Gay Suicides: What Teens Can Do

October 18, 2010 in Huffington Post

DIY: Fighting homophobic bullying in the Jewish world

October 15, 2010 in Jewish publications (other)

Gay Marriage and ‘Religious Freedom’

August 18, 2010 in Forward

Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Religious Issue

July 15, 2010 in Tikkun

Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?

July 01, 2010 in Religion Dispatches

Jewish LGBT leaders need to build a movement

June 29, 2010 in CNN

Chanukah in June

June 27, 2010 in Jewish publications (other)

The Gifts of Difference

February 16, 2010 in Jewish publications (other)

Reflections of a Jewish Gay Rights Advocate on Visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr, Museum: An Open Letter to Ruben Diaz, Sr., and other Latino and African-American Opponents of Gay Rights

November 15, 2009 in Huffington Post

The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March

October 11, 2009 in Huffington Post

A Missing Culprit, but Culpability All Around

August 14, 2009 in Forward

It is love that matters, not the sex of one’s beloved”: Leaders of LGBT Jewish Synagogues & Organizations Respond to the Attack in Tel Aviv

August 10, 2009 in Huffington Post

Why Straight People Go to Gay Synagogues — and What We Can Learn From Them

June 03, 2009 in Forward

The Religious Significance of Homosexuality: Queering God, Torah, and Israel

June 01, 2009 in The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism

Why It Matters that Adam Lambert is (Probably) Gay

May 20, 2009 in Huffington Post

Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut

April 20, 2009 in Huffington Post

Liberation from Passover

April 10, 2009 in Torah Queeries

Coming Out: It’s the Jewish Thing to Do At Hanukkah

December 11, 2008 in Forward

Chaos, Law, and God: The Religious Meanings of Homosexuality

December 01, 2008 in Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

November 19, 2008 in Reality Sandwich

What is the Connection between Monogamy and Monotheism

September 05, 2008 in Maariv

Monogamy and Monotheism

June 30, 2008 in Zeek

Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils

May 19, 2008 in Literary Journals

Sexual Hypocrisy is Not a Jewish Value

March 19, 2008 in Jewcy

Who’s Your Daddy?: The Bible’s Many Vocies on Homosexuality (Review of Jennings, Jacob’s Wound)

July 18, 2007 in Forward

Conservative Judaism: Good for the Gays?

March 01, 2007 in Tikkun

Into Life: On Parshat Va’era

January 20, 2007 in Torah Queeries

Zeek is not a Gay Magazine (but it is out)

January 01, 2007 in Zeek

Shortbus: Best Gay Movie Ever

December 21, 2006 in White Crane

Gay History in the Making, I Guess

December 07, 2006 in MyJewishLearning.com

In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March

November 17, 2006 in Forward

Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony

October 11, 2006 in Human Rights Campaign

A Less Innocent Love: On Parshat Va’etchanan

August 01, 2006 in Torah Queeries

It’s the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context- Why “God hates fags” just like God hates shrimp

April 28, 2006 in Torah Queeries

Doubt as Dharma

January 01, 2006 in White Crane

Disabuse Community of Intolerance

November 11, 2005 in Forward

Male and Female Created He Them

July 01, 2005 in Forward

How can you be gay and Jewish?

September 01, 2004 in Zeek

Hasidism and Homoeroticism

July 01, 2004 in Zeek

Wrestling with Steve Greenberg

May 01, 2004 in Zeek

A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith

January 02, 2004 in Forward

The Queer Guy at the Strip Club

August 01, 2003 in Zeek