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Since 1996, Whosoever has been a source of
hope and transformation for gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender Christians and other spiritual people. Since
1998,
"Minor Details"
has offered Dr. Minor's unique perspective on news,
events, relationships, and cultural, social and political
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readership. Whosoever closed at the end
of 2014 and relaunched in 2019 with Dr. Minor as Assistant Editor. It includes columns found elsewhere as well as some unique to its pages.
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"'Out" or Not on Coming Out Day, You're Still Okay" — October 11, 2024
"Why Our Lives and Loved Ones Are on the Line Now" — September 7, 2024
"Why Bigotry By Any Other Name Is Still Just Bigotry" — August 9, 2024
"Why Americans Are All Freer Today Thanks to Our Lesbian Sisters" — July 3, 2024, 2024
"Five Ways to Keep the Haters from Getting You Down This Pride Month" — June 21, 2024
"Why the Future of the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement Is in Good Hands" — May 16, 2024
"Why Do We Keep Missing Our Common Humanity in the Name of Religion" — April 12, 2024
"Why Everyone, Including Texas, Needs a While Lot More PFLAG" — March 1, 2024
"A Valentine's Day Rehersal of How I'd Officiate an LGBTQ+ Wedding" — February 14, 2024
"How to Call Out Anti-LGBTQI+ Bigotry in 2024" — January 4, 2024
"Let's Resolve Now to Make 2024 the Year We Take Back the Language" — December 21, 2023
"Here's the Best Way to Prepare for a Tough Conversation" — November 15, 2023
"Why Porn Isn't the Only Right-Wing Addiction" —October 31, 2023
"Why You Should Be Suspicious of Anyone Who Proclaims 'The Bible Says It'" — September 14, 2023
"BFF's For Eternity: What If That's Actually the Point of It All?" — July 24, 2023
"You Don't Have to Stay in an Abusive Relationship With the Church" — July 11, 2023
"It's Not You, It's Them: An LGBTQ+ Guide to Right-Wing Mind Games" — June 21, 2023
"Religion Isn't Responsible for Bigotry, People Are" — June 9, 2023
"What Would Jesus Say to Our Haters Who Are Paralyzed with Fear?'" — May 2, 2023
"Why It Stinks to Be Stuck with These LGBTQI Stereotypes'" — March 13, 2023
"Here's Everything We Get Wrong About Love and Sex on Valentine's Day'" — February 13, 2023
"6 Keys to Surviving the Religion Addicts Battling Their 'Culture Wars'" — January 10, 2023
"Every Right-Wing Bigot Is Responsible for These LGBTQ+ Nightclub Murders" — November 23, 2022
"LGBTQ+ People Aren't the Only Victims of Our Addiction to Toxic Military Masculinity" — November 6, 2022
"How to Prepare for the Long Term Even if Political/Cultural Storms Threaten Just Off the Coast" — September 30, 2022
"What If We Don't Agree Politically?" — September 15, 2022
"The Pathetic Masculine Heroics of Today's Right-Wing" — August 1, 2022
"Not a Straight, White MAGA Male? Then They're Coming for You" — June 29, 2022
"Southern Baptist Scandal Just the Lastest Chapter in the Church's History of Sexual Dysfunction" — May 27, 2022
"How Much Longer WIll the Word 'Traditional' Be Used as If It Matters?" — May 24, 2022
"Say Gay: Responding to the Current Right-Wing Grooming of Americans" — May 2, 2022
"Is 'Color Blindness' a Worthy Goal?" — March 9, 2022
"What's Behind Today's Flare-up in the Right-WIng War Against LGBTQ Youth?" — February 11, 2022
"These Holidays Exalt Those Who Must Flee Home & Homeland" — December 28, 2021
"Time to Say It Again: It's Looking Grim But There's Still a Place for Hope" — December 2, 2021
"'Please Raise Them to Be Monsters'? Really?" — October 27, 2021
"Sergius and Bacchus: Sainted Same-Sex-Couple" — October 7, 2021
"Does 'Freedom' Mean Anything Beyond Selfishness?" — September 15, 2021
"I Won't Forget What that Bethelehm Breakfast Club Taught Me About Religion" — July 27, 2021
"LGBTQ People, CheckThose Guilt Feelings" — July 14, 2021
"The Stonewall Uprising Wasn't Anything Like Today's Pride Fests" — June 28, 2021
"Who Said Forgiveness Is the Ultimate Answer?" — June 9, 2021
"It's the 'Pride' Part of LGBTQ Pride that Still Drives Them Nuts" — June 1, 2021
"Why Are Transgender People at the Center of Republican Culture Wars?" — April 29, 2021
"'Culture Wars' Are Tweeked and Front and Center Again Because It's All One Party Has to Offer" — March 26, 2021
"Lessons I Hope We've Learned Over the Decades, 2021 Edition" — February 28, 2021
"Could Creativity and Imagination Be Too Scary, Subversive, and Even Too Queer?" — January 28, 2021
"Martin Luther King, Jr. 'I Have a Dream' But It's Bigger Than You Think" — January 13, 2021
"Now More Than Ever We've Got to Embrace the Mindset That We're All In This Together" — December 6, 2020
"No Surprise at All: It's Religious People Fearing They're Losing Power They've Savored" — November 25, 2020
"Remember When 'Hate Is Not a Family Value' Was Everywhere? What About Now?" — November 3, 2020
"During LGBTQ History Month, What Do We Learn from Anti-LGBTQ History?" — October 13, 2020
"What People Need from You Now This Election Season Is..." — October 4, 2020
"The Comfort of Fundamentalisms" — August 26, 2020
"If Just This One Idea of Manhood Is Changing, There's Hope" — July 23, 2020
"Is There Room in Our Encounter for a Conversation of Not?" — July 11, 2020
"Stop Making the Bible Be an Excuse for LGBTQI Discrimination" — June 23, 2020
"Who Are Those 'Eunuchs Who Have Been So from Birth' in the Gospel of Matthew?" — May 16, 2020
"What Would a Same-Sex Relationship Between Two Women Look Like in the Bible?" — April 11, 2020
"Of Pandemics, Social Distancing, and Hugs" — March 26, 2020
"What Does the Biblical Legend of Jonathan ahd David's Same-Sex Relationship Say About Homophobia?" — March 5, 2020
"Maybe Jesus Actually Did Say Something About Homosexuality After All" — February 5, 2020
"When Homophobia Is the Prejudice Through Which You Interpret the Bible" —January 18, 2020
"Going to Argue Scripture with Someone? Here's One Thing Never to Say" —January 3, 2020
"The Christmas Story Is About Who's In and Who's Out" — December 24, 2019
"Here Comes
More of the Persecution Complex" — November,
2014
"War
Is the Force that Gives Masculinity Meaning" — October,
2014
"America's
Religiosity: A Gut Check of Its Christianities" — August,
2014
"We
Still Don't Know What Causes Heterosexuality" — August,
2014
"Fantasize
With Me: Men Comfortable In Their Own Skin" — March,
2014
"The
Inevitable Will Take More Effort" — January,
2014
"No
Matter How Ugly It's Going to Be, There's Hope in
2014 " — January, 2014
"Will
Marriage Equality Matter to the Community?" — November
- December, 2013
"Now
What Will the Celebration Over ENDA Look Like?" — September
- October, 2013
"Will
You Boycott the Russian Olympics?" — September
- October, 2013
"Pride" — July
- August, 2013
"Make
Up Research and Pray Hard" — May -
June, 2013
"Mother's
Day and A Lot Else Ain't What It Used to Be " — May
- June, 2013
"Can
'Lincoln' Still Happen Here and Now?" — March
- April, 2013
"We
Haven't Turned the Corner on Marriage Equality Yet" — January
- February, 2013
"The
Non-End of Homphobia " — January
- February, 2013
"Could
the Fundamentalists Exist Without Being Motivated
by Hate?" — November
- December, 2012
"On
the Serious Politics of Lying" — September
- October, 2012
"'We
Look Like Mississippi '" — July -
August, 2012
"Will
the Supremes Care About 'Equal Justice for All?'" — May
- June, 2012
"Will
'Culture Wars' Work Again?" — March
- April, 2012
"When
lt Comes to Religion, Let's Keep One Resolution " — January
- February, 2012
"Yes
'We' Can" — November - December , 2011
"Does
Your Politician Pass the Religious Test?" — September
- October, 2011
"So
What Are We Going to Do About It?" — July
- August, 2011
"More
Believers Are Saying "It Ain't Necessarily So" — July
- August, 2011
"A
Movement for Real Change We Can Believe In" — May
- June, 2011
"Re-Using
the Religious RIght for 2112" — May
- June, 2011
"Egyptian
Hope; American Pessimism" — March
- April, 2011
"This
Generation Gap Really
Matters" — January
- February, 2011
"When
Can a Speaker of the House Cry?" — January
- February, 2011
"Why
Obama Became the Religious Right-WIng's Devil" — November
- December, 2010
"Will
the U.S. Ever Like Educators?" — September
- October, 2010
"And
Now We Boycott Target?" — September
- October, 2010
"Our
American on Our Mind" — July - August,
2010
"Is
It Gay or Is It European?" — July
- August, 2010
"Watching
the Church Deal with Its Sex Problems" — May
- June, 2010
"Lessons
from an Assassination" — May - June,
2010
"Sex
Is Ruining Marriage" — March - April,
2010
"Marriage.
Where Are We Now?" — January - February,
2010
"'Tis
the Season of More Mythology" —
November - December, 2009
"Keeping
the Religious RIght-Wing Alive " —
November - December, 2009
"Will
What the Professionals Say Finally Matter?" —
September - October, 2009
"The
Place for Using and Abusing Children" —
September - October, 2009
"The
Violence of Right-WIng Religion" — July
- August, 2009
"Is
Stonewall Just Old History?" — July
- August, 2009
"Are
You Sure We're Not a Christian Nation?" — May
- June, 2009
"An
Overwhelming Sense of Victimization" — March
- April, 2009
"Stop
Supporting Religious Prejudice" — January
- February, 2009
"Beyond
'A Day Without a Gay'" — January -
February, 2009
"Marriage
Equality and Everything Else " — November
- December, 2008
"More
Faithless-Based Initiatives " — September
- October, 2008
"Who's
Responsible for What They Say? " — September
- October, 2008
"Target:
Michelle Obama" — July - August, 2008
"We
All Have Histories " — May - June,
2008
"Why
Would a Nice Boy Shoot Up His School? " — March
- April, 2008
"Let
Them Hit Bottom " — January
- February, 2008
"There's
Money, Not Bigotry, in Our Genes " — November
- December, 2007
"Hiding
the Family Values Gang's Sexual Addictions " — September
- October, 2007
"Those
June Gay Lifestyle Expos " — July
- August, 2007
"Virginia
Tech, Don Imus, & America's Seething Anger" — May
- June, 2007
"Graduating
From the Accelerated 'Straight 101' Class " — March
- April, 2007
"Mel
White's Journey Continues " — March
- April, 2007
"The
Privilege of Mary Cheney" — January
- February, 2007
"Marriage
Amendments Threaten Religious Freedom"
— July - August, 2006
"If
You Permit Big Enough Lies Long Enough..."
— May - June, 2006
"Why
I Am Not a Democrat'" — March
- April, 2006
"The
Annual War of Unbelief to Sell Christmas"
— January - February, 2006
"A
Mandate to Teach Stupid Design'" —
November - December, 2005
"Why
Are Gay People the Way They Are?'" —
September - October, 2005
"How
to Wreck a Relationship — 'Be a Lady'"
— July - August, 2005
"A
Meditation on Addictive Religion" —
May - June, 2005
"When
Religion is an Addiction" — March
- April, 2005
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