Author Archives: Brian
Brian G. Murphy, 22, is a resident of New York City where he works for a children's television network. Originally from Maryland, he went to the University of Southern California where he studied film and religion. Brian is also an advocate for LGBT community, working closely with Soulforce and SoulforceQ since 2007. He maintains a personal blog at allpointsinbetween.blogspot.com
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Matt, Thanks for highlighting the ill-conceived prison-themed board game for us. Timothy Kincaid over at Box Turtle Bulletin has already scolded LA Time's write Tom O'Neil for calling it "gay themed" and to let the Times know that such a correlation is "offensive and stupid" -- I think we'd ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Al Gore has joined the ranks of politicians and former politicians on record supporting marriage equality:
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer introduced a marriage equality bill last year which passed the Assembly, there is overwhelming support from the state lawmakers in my area of Maryland, and even Republicans such as NY ...
Posted in Marriage Equality, Politics | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
While I understand the motivation behind the push for domestic partnerships and civil unions, I can't support them. I learned today that New Mexico is one step closer to granting domestic partnerships to same-sex couples and while I'm excited for those couples which will (hopefully) soon have more rights ...
Posted in LGBT Families, Marriage Equality | 5 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
I've thought about it for months now: Do I or don't I support him? I've started researching and stopped again. It wasn't until very recently that I was sure. And then it hit me: Now what? I've measured what I should say and how that would ...
Posted in LGBT Adoption, Marriage Equality, Politics, Republican Party | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The New York Times is again reporting that HIV infections are rising among young gay men.
For years he had numbed his pain and fear with drugs, alcohol and anonymous sex. But in a flash of clarity one day, when the crystal meth was wearing off, Javier Arriola dragged himself to ...
Posted in Health, Sexuality | 4 Comments »
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and I know it is easy for me to think of AIDS Walk, Magic Johnson, or even an aquaintence from USC that I knew who was HIV+. But just as we in America have come to understand that HIV/AIDS affects more than just gay ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
In response to a recent post, Lyonside comments:
As a liberal Christian, I tend to get very archaeological/anthropological when talking about JudeoChristian scriptures, which really allows those who take the Bible literally and with a King James bent to shut me out.
Whenever I hear "Bible literalist" or "people who take the ...
Posted in Religion | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Matt and I met during the Soulforce Equality Ride this past spring and have been involved in other Soulforce actions and events. In June, Soulforce teamed up with Beyond Ex-Gay and the LGBT Resource Center of UC-Irvine to host the first ever Ex-Gay Survivor Conference.
As you may be aware, ...
Posted in Ex-gay, LGBT, Religion, Soulforce/Equality Ride | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
I might have been disappointed earlier today, but thankfully tonight I can go to bed happy. Three years after President Bush focused his presidential campaign largely on gay marriage, the United States House of Representatives voted to add sexual orientation to the list of classes protected under employment non-discrimination ...
Posted in Employment Discrimination, LGBT, Politics | No Comments »
