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How ‘Big Love’ redeemed Mormonism

Mar 31, 11 How ‘Big Love’ redeemed Mormonism

by in Queer Gnosis

Spoiler: If you haven’t watched the final episode of Big Love – stop reading! HBO’s Big Love concluded last week after five memorable seasons. Creators Will Scheffer and Mark Olsen found rich material within Utah’s quirky cultural landscape to tell the stories of a suburban fundamentalist Mormon household. Although the...

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Peaceful Uprising: The Tim DeChristopher Interview

Mar 17, 11 Peaceful Uprising: The Tim DeChristopher Interview

by in Queer Gnosis

Is environmental justice a queer issue? Of course! The time is soon coming when gay Americans will enjoy full federal equality in all 50 states. But what good is a gay marriage if we don’t have clean air or water? What good is the legal right to adopt if we don’t leave all our new gaybies with a sustainable, livable future?...

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Sound the alarm: GOP on the attack

Mar 03, 11 Sound the alarm: GOP on the attack

by in Queer Gnosis

We’ve only been in 2011 for two months and already it’s difficult to keep up with the daily assaults from the organized right-wing. Last December, President Obama cowardly surrendered to Republican House leadership to extend tax cuts to the mega-rich. It was an ominous sign of things to come. The GOP’s demand for severe...

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Roseannearchy!

Jan 20, 11 Roseannearchy!

by in Queer Gnosis

There are many people who have inspired my worldview. Roseanne Barr is definitely one of them; outspoken, defiant, loud and always hilarious. She is a proud defender of the working class, a champion for women’s equality and a persistent advocate for the queer community. Her new book is Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm....

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Dark futures: Why ‘TRON’ won’t save us

Jan 07, 11 Dark futures: Why ‘TRON’ won’t save us

by in Queer Gnosis

Hyper fictionauts rush to escape the entropy of the Real. Surveillance Spectacle thrives in the service of Fascist Ravers. Sexless 3D simulation engorged by liquid light hallucinations. Sci-Fi liberation cosmology uploaded with sentient ISO-morphic algorithms. A dark depression descended on me while watching TRON: Legacy. The total...

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Don’t Enlist, Don’t Serve

Nov 11, 10 Don’t Enlist, Don’t Serve

by in Queer Gnosis

There are many things worse than discrimination. Being hit by a mortar blast, losing a limb, living with post-traumatic stress disorder or killing another human all come to mind. These are just a few of the deadly realities queers will face if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is ultimately repealed. The one upside to a...

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