Human Interest - Slate Magazine
7/9/2026, 1:03 PM - 658 words
Faulty reasoning signals
- Negativity Bias - 18.5%
- Availability Heuristic - 15.3%
- Appeal to Emotion - 12%
Article text
When church was a queer space. Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven. Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over. The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over. What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes? The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change. The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose. The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it. What do you preach about when you first learn you have AIDS? A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time. The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community. A Sermon With “Old Fashioned Homosexual Values.” A celebrity contracts HIV, the world finally pays attention to AIDS, and Jim Mitulski preaches to a community tired of people dying from it. How Should Queer Christians Respond to Anti-Gay Violence, its Victims, and the People Who Perpetrate It? When a lesbian minister is physically assaulted, the church is galvanized. When it happens again, the city is galvanized. To Preach About Healing When You Know You’re Going to Die A gay minister seeks healing with his family and his queer kin, even as he knows he’ll soon die from AIDS. How Does a Queer Church Make Friends With Other Churches in the Midst of a Crisis? AIDS helps forge an unlikely friendship between two San Francisco churches from very different neighborhoods with very different views on sexuality. How Did a Gay Church Embrace the Identity of “a Church with AIDS”? Two queer religion geeks move to San Francisco. And Easter communion gets real in the age of AIDS. Why an Out Queer Person in the Gay Liberation Days of the ’70s Would Go To Church Troy Perry starts the gay/lesbian Metropolitan Community Church. A young lesbian is a regular at the San Francisco congregation when her friend gets sick. How an LGBTQ+ Christian Church Faced AIDS in 1980s and ’90s San Francisco. Rescued archival audio takes listeners into the heart of an LGBTQ+ church during the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s and '90s San Francisco. The Internet Loves the Exclamation Point!! How social platforms affect our linguistic conventions. Is Aziz Ansari Sorry? The Waves also discusses the Riverside Church controversy and the case of Sarah Milov. Your Opinions on Her Wardrobe Are Probably Unwelcome What we say matters, especially depending on whom we say it to. What Role Does HR Play in the #MeToo Era? The Waves also discusses the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble. Why Is “Ph” Pronounced That Way? John McWhorter on the word fantastic. What the Democratic Debates—and the Dialogue Around Them—Can Tell Us About 2020 The Waves also discusses the controversial HBO series Euphoria and elite women’s networking spaces. Is There a Good Way to Respond When Thousands of Conservatives Come After You on Twitter? Probably not how I did. The Unexpected Upshot of Kavanaugh’s First Term on the Supreme Court The Waves also discusses the return of Big Little Lies and makes an announcement of its own. Why Men Refuse to Do Yoga Especially guys who aren’t white. Does Language Affect Thought? John McWhorter on the Whorfian hypothesis. A Muslim and a Sikh Talk Racial and Religious Harassment Aymann Ismail and Simran Jeet Singh on what they say and do in response to hate and bigotry. How Three Women Made Trump’s Lies Palatable to the Public The Waves also discusses the Women’s World Cup and the U.K.’s ban on sexist advertising. The Things Brown-Skinned Men Do to Make People Comfortable Especially in airports.