queer

Yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America's National Council, by a 61% margin, voted to accept boys who self-identify as gay into their ranks, i.e., "approved a resolution to remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone". Here is the official statement. Immediate reaction is mixed and pointed, even by the

Pentecost is the queerest day of the Christian year. It is strange. It is unexpected. It is unwieldy. It is overwhelming. And we have sought to encapsulate and confine and control it within time, within a calendar to bring it back when we want it to occur. When we can expect it. When we can