My Brush with Fame & Scandal

I call this blog a Gay Spirit Diary. My goal is to integrate sex, love and faith in God, ideally through Christian same-sex marriage. I’m (slowly) writing a book about it, and here I explore some ideas — which is all a bit of buildup to telling you about my chat this afternoon with a [...]

Maine Catholics Lobby Against Gay Marriage

UPDATE: The legislature in Maine passed the Gay marriage bill May 6 and Gov. John Baldacci signed it. Whaddaya know, Democrats who act like Democrats. Hooray for Maine!

Richard Malone, Bishop of Portland, Maine.
I guess it’s no surprise, the Catholic Church hates Gay people, and calls us such charming phrases as “intrinsically disordered.”
In your being, [...]

Sex & Intimacy: Paired & Learned?

I wish there were a Gay sex blog that takes the subject seriously, especially in these days of legal Gay marriage.
I like eye candy as much as the next guy, but I’d like to find a forum that deals with the sexual issues I think about:
• How do two guys make a relationship?
• What [...]

Jack T. Dawson, Activist and Lover

Jack Dawson and Josh Thomas, wedding night, Dec. 6, 1990
I have written two pieces on the final illness and death of my lover and husband, Jack Dawson, a eulogy and a thank you letter, but I’m struck by how inadequately I describe him. I’m a professional writer; can I not apply my wordsmithing skills to [...]

CA Supreme Court: Equal Justice, Equal Marriage

California plaintiffs Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis
Today at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, the Supreme Court of California declared that Lesbian and Gay couples have the right to marry, and that the state’s attempt to prevent them from doing so violates the most basic principle of equal justice under law.
Proposition 22 is unconstitutional.
I expect the reaction [...]

Shocking Events in San Joaquin; or, The Empress and the Queen

John-David Schofield, singing “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina”
updated with links
Today is the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury, the famous Becket of “Murder in the Cathedral.” He was assassinated by henchmen of King Henry II in 1170, and today is the anniversary of that vile act, which shocked all of Christendom.
Maybe you read Chaucer’s “Canterbury [...]

Gene: Tell Your Story about Jesus

Bishop Gene Robinson (Michael Houghton/The New York Times)
Last year during the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Larry King had Gene Robinson and others (Andrew Sullivan, the Rev. Jo Hudson, the Rev. David Anderson, the Rev. Albert Mohler) on his CNN talk show to discuss LGBTs in the Church. It was about as enlightening as [...]

Passing a 21st Milestone

Twenty-one years ago today I met a man at a party. His name was Jack. He was tall, masculine, intelligent, sensitive, athletic and funny. Best of all, we agreed about almost everything, except religion.
Seventeen years ago today I married him. An Episcopal priest officiated; we held the service in our apartment. About 40 people came, [...]