Editorials

Patrick Saunders: My complicated relationship with God

I pray every night, but I don't know if I truly believe in God. I know that might sound odd, the idea that someone would talk to someone night after night, year after year, when they're not sure that the...

Rob Smith: Looking back on being closeted in the Army, five years after Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Editor's Note: Five years ago today, the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on military service by lesbian, gays and bisexuals officially ended. To mark the anniversary, we're publishing an excerpt from "Closets, C...

Darian Aaron: America, your hands are not clean in Orlando massacre

On Sunday, June 12 at 7:17 a.m., I awoke to a frantic text message from my best friend of over twenty years informing me of a shooting at a gay club in Orlando. Not yet fully awake, the seriousness of his text ...

Rob Smith: Coming of age as a gay man in the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell army

The first two minutes of my military experience were a blur. No sooner had I gotten off the bus at Fort Benning and retrieved my luggage, as directed, and stood in front of it, I made the mistake of glancing at...

Darian Aaron: May the good ol’ South die a quick death

Back in Oct. 2015, I proudly boasted in an editorial that “our state hasn’t turned out to be as bigoted as many expected” following the June 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized marriage equality nationwide...