When Fezzik and Inigo Montoya bring Westley to Miracle Max, they are sure that Westley is dead. They do not know so much, as Max explains, “It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.” It seems that Michael Goldman, who wrote The Princess Bride, is a …
Changing Change: Saint Bayard Rustin
Today, as I write this, it is National Coming Out Day. It is fitting, then, that this week we will canonize Bayard Rustin. He was, in many ways, the architect of the 20th century American protest movement. In 1942, thirteen years before Rosa Parks, he refused to move to the back of a Louisville-to-Nashville bus. He was arrested and beaten, …
Coming Out
Thursday was National Coming Out Day. I’m reading through Facebook comments of friends from high school to whose pain I was oblivious. I regret that I was not then the person I am sometimes able to be today, an advocate and ally. I am certain that through my frequent silence, constant blindness, and occasional word and deed, I hurt people. …