Tag: Gay

I have a Ph.D. in counseling and provided thousands of hours of professional counseling to gay Christian men. Likewise, as a gay Christian man, I have received hundreds of hours of professional counseling. Such experiences of being vulnerable to a counselor can be very inti...

July 2023. Claudine Gay becomes the first Black president of Harvard University. She is only the second woman to be named Harvard’s president. Just in case you aren’t familiar with the Claudine Gay drama that made the news recently, here is a very quick recap. On December...

I remember my first crush in elementary school was on a white boy. There was something so alluring and charming about him and white boys in general. The idea of dating any other race didn’t even cross my mind. Middle and high school would see me having crushes on just white boys. By the time I...

If you have an Asian grandparent, you know they can be a delightful mix of wisdom, tradition, and unintentional comedy. It’s that particular blend of “old world meets new” that makes for some entertaining conversations, especially when it comes to topics outside their comfort zone....

I often think about the streets of Bangkok, a city that’s as much about its people as it is about its places. There’s something about the rhythm of the city — the ebb and flow of the traffic, the melodious chaos of marketplaces, the silent serenity of its temples — that stays...

Just yesterday, on one of the most challenging days of the political year, with the right-wing Supreme Court on a rampage, Dmitri “Misha” Collins, known for his role as the angel Castiel on the television series “Supernatural,” informed the world on Twitter that, he is pissed...

History is plagued with racial discrimination, an issue as old as time itself. For centuries, people of color were subjected to ill-treatment, abuse, violence, and segregation based on their appearance and nothing more. The Civil Rights Movement in America, which began in 1954 and spanned more th...

As chief executive of the students’ union, it is not common for me to make statements — our amazing student leaders are usually, and rightly, the voice of the [Student Union]. But today, I find myself in a unique position where, after reading the experiences of black students’ invo...

This has been a terrible week in the history of Harvard University and the nation. After enduring a racist crusade by rightwing activists, donors, and “academics,” Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black woman to lead Harvard in its 387-year history, resigned in the face of charges that she di...