I am incredibly lucky. I am a well-paid religious professional who is able to live in a certain amount of moderate luxury as a single gay man. I work and navigate some fairly impressive academic and cultural circles between Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard and Princeton Universities, national policy and politics and the like. My intellectual work ...

To the white woman who crossed the street to avoid me today: I saw you coming, masked and middle aged Down the street of my church Toward me, a minister of faith As I waited to meet a different white woman Who I had not seen before in person. Unfamiliar, I searched your face from ...