Culture and Review - Sex and Gender

Unnatural acts?

Melissa Conroy — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:12:06 +0100

‘Men-women’ have become the criminalized ‘homosexuals’ of Senegal, a ‘gay’ man is left unburied, and the transsexual teenager lives with the medical diagnosis of ‘psychosis’, writesMelissa Conroy. So what is 'normal' and what part does religion play in defining it?

India, Valentine's Day and gender violence

Wendy Doniger — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:32:00 +0000

For most of Indian history, those Hindus who have perpetrated violence against women have got away with it, says Wendy Doniger. It's time for this to stop.

A heavy grace: fiction, theology and same-sex love

Savi Hensman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:50:38 +0000

For half a century, says Savi Hensman, theologians have vigorously debated lesbian and gay love and the response of society and the Church. Yet theological reflection on these issues, for instance in literature, dates back further.

The church outs itself on homosexuality

Martin Reynolds — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:05:25 +0100

The outing of Vatican high-flier Monsignor Tommaso Stenico in a secretly filmed TV sting offers a real insight into the struggle the Roman Catholic Church is having in its home country over homosexuality.

Blood in the aisles by Jonathan Bartley - The Guardian, 2nd October 2004

Press Office — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:55:40 +0100

Jonathan Bartley assesses Stephen Bates's straight-talking account of the profound divisions in the Church of England, A Church at War