“Did you hear about Trump’s potential candidates for VP? One of them is Hispanic and a woman. How will that work?” There are so many things wrong with this actual quote from our parents this past weekend when referencing the possibility that New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez was a possibility. Why would our mom be scared of a woman in […]
We were never very sportsy growing up. In fact, we somehow thought being gay was an exemption from any sort of organized physical exertion. If only we’d known then that the handsome diver on TV in the 1984 Olympics was gay, we might’ve realized that we had some sort of athletic potential. But Greg Louganis wouldn’t officially come out until […]
On October 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard died. It was one week after he was lured from a bar in Laramie, Wyoming and tortured by two men who then tied him to a fence and left him to perish. It was one of the most horrific and senseless murders of the time and Matthew quickly became associated with the term “hate […]
Religious jokes are always funny. Unless they’re about your beliefs. (Or you’re like us and absolutely nothing is sacred.) But sometimes a controversial interpretation of religion, humorous or otherwise, can shed new light on the subject and challenge the status quo. That’s putting mildly what takes place in Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption, a documentary that shows the reactions of […]
We’ll never forget the first time we were kidnapped. Sure, our parents were in on the job, but it was still jarring being awakened in the middle of the night and carried out blindfolded into a van. This was just the first step in an overnight holy hazing for our Methodist youth group. It was all in good fun, of […]
There are few times a film cuts to the core of our emotions and brings to light such heroism in the face of horror that we feel the uncontrollable need to get everyone we know into theaters to see it. How To Survive A Plague is one of those rare movies. The documentary is the story of two groups, ACT […]
