Controversial preacher man Jeremiah Wright ain't all bad - or is he? Sure, he damned America and brought disgrace to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, but he's also come out for his homo brethren. Said Wright in a 90s-era sermon:

I refuse to limit my God, to lock God into my cultural understandings because culture is fickle. And culture is often wrong. Culture was wrong about slavery. Culture was wrong about women. Culture was wrong about Africans and Indians, and culture was wrong about Christ. I have been the pariah among many of my clergy colleagues who somehow see me as defective or not quite saved because I won’t join them in their homophobic gay bashing and misquoting of scripture.

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Boston-based gay newspaper In Newsweekly seems to be surviving after last year's editorial upheavals.

HX Media's PR flack sent us a press release celebrating the gay newspapers new hires, including former associate editor Tony Giampetruzzi, who's returning after an "18-month absence". Mr. G will apparently focus on nightlife, thus allowing the other staffers to focus on more substantial issues.

The aforementioned PR flack also wants us to point out that Reverend Irene Monroe has not left the paper. He claims Joe Siegel, Chuck Colbert and Fred Kuhr unfairly included Monroe in their irate letter to HX honcho Matt Bank.

Read the entire lackluster release, after the jump…

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Reverend Irene Monroe delivers some stunning news this Tuesday, but the inspired activist is not about to wallow:

I have breast cancer. I tell you this to better accept the blow that has struck me.
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The weave of my everyday existence for the past twenty years has been about social injustice concerning race, class, gender identities and expressions as it relates to religious intolerance. But now I take up another gauntlet: the politics of breast cancer, because this too is personal…

Monroe also informs us she had surgery on December 24th and the cancer's in stage one, the tumor was tiny and there's no metastasis, or spreading. All that religious stuff must have paid off…

New York-based HX Media's Boston adventure hit some speed bumbs this week.

Editorial staffers at In Newsweekly, which HX acquired last year, are none-to-happy with the way things are going down. Contributor Joe Siegel offered his resignation this weekend, just a week after he and three other regulars - including our favorite black preacher woman, Irene Monroe - sent HX founder Matt Bank a blistering letter. They've all since stepped down.

Read said letter, after the jump…

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No doubt Barack Obama wants the world to forget about his anti-gay gospel gaffe. Superstar Reverend Irene Monroe, however, keeps the scandal piping hot with a scathing criticism of the presidential candidate:

Although the Obama campaign says it "decided to go with someone local," the real deal is that Obama hid his fear of addressing the black LGBTQ community by selecting a white minister to speak to a predominately black anti-gay audience. That’s because it is easier to maintain the myth many of these black evangelical voters hold – that queerness is a “white” thing – than to address the reality that his “big tent” message cannot presently accommodate anti-gay black ministers, gospels singers, and the black LGBTQ community.

Wait, there are black gay people? Who knew?!

Reverend Irene Monroe, who will not blindly support Barack Obama, definitely has something to say about tonight's HRC/Logo "gay debates". Like what? Like "Will it revolve solely around cracker ass faggots." The good reverend and some of her black peers, however, remain a little more nuanced - but just as cynical.

Monroe maintains that HRC, Logo and gay press consistently ignore black issues, which makes her wonder whether tonight's forum won't do the same.

…Much of the overwhelming disinterest in LGBTQ communities of African descent about this upcoming historic debate is the belief that issues pertinent to them will once again be left out of not only the public discourse but also left out of the overall interest of politicians wooing this community as an important and vital voter bloc to have. The queer community is a decisive electoral force that politicians have learned over the years, for their own campaign survival, that they must at least wink at.

Two issues Monroe would like the Democrats to discuss: homeless black gay youth and AIDS in black communities. Will Monroe get her wish? Only time - and the presidential candidates - will tell…

(Note: It seems some of you are confused as to whether or not Monroe uses the phrase "crack ass faggots". We think our next sentence makes clear she did not use such a phrase. It would, however, be funny if she had.)

Be sure to read Stereohyped's perspective for "the black view."

Reverend Irene Monroe ain't no friend of Barack Obama. The black lesbian has come out against the black presidential candidate on more than one occasion. She first blasted the Illinois junior senator back in November, writing:

..[H]is affinity to conservative Christian beliefs not only informs his decision on the issue of marriage equality, but it also solidifies his decision about us in a community of believers like himself.

Though some black churches have lent their support to the lavender cause, the majority still maintain a decidedly repressive approach - an approach Obama maintains.

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