Gay and Happy: The Journey of a PHC Alumna

By Anonymous At QueerPHC, we welcome guest posts that are affirming and relevant to LGBTQ students and graduates of Patrick Henry College. To submit your own guest post, email queerphc@gmail.com. I’m an alumna of PHC, and I’m going to tell...

Homosexuality: It’s an Orientation, Not an Action

When the story of Patrick Henry College Chancellor Michael Farris' threatened lawsuit was picked up by various news outlets and blogs in the past week, we at QueerPHC braced ourselves for the inevitable response from the Patrick Henry College community...

Guest Post: Straight Talk about QueerPHC

By R.L. Stollar "This is great silliness of course, but it is the great silliness of highly intelligent and perceptive people." ~ Alasdair MacIntyre I committed a decade of my life to the HSLDA-sponsored homeschool debate league, NCFCA. This league...

An Interesting Take on Bisexuality

My fellow contributor, Alan Scott, brought this story by Chris OGuinn of AfterElton.com to my attention. The clips that have been compiled in the article (it's 3 pages long) are from Make It or Break It on the ABC Family network....

Farris Retreats From Threat to Sue QueerPHC

Update, Dec. 7, 11:35 p.m.: Libby Anne of the Patheos blog Love, Joy, Feminism has made a post about us and the recent happenings. Update, Dec. 5, 7:32 a.m.: Hemant Mehta of Patheos blog has run a piece on the recent...

Patrick Henry College Chancellor Michael Farris Threatens to Sue QueerPHC

Update, Dec. 3, 5:55 p.m.:  Michael Farris withdraws his threat to sue QueerPHC. Original post:  Over the weekend, we received this message on our Facebook page: For those who can't load the screenshot jpeg above, the message is from Michael...

Gandalf Endorses Marriage Equality

Update: Stephen Colbert interviewed Sir Ian McKellen on Monday, and it was just too funny not to share. Go watch it.  "You know we're making a sequel. In Middle Earth. Ah, perhaps I shouldn't say. [Looks over his shoulder.] It's going...

Dawn of a New Day

Seeing as how it's the dawn of a new month (the last one ever, if you believe the Mayans), I thought it apropos to share this video from the Human Rights Campaign narrated by the ever epic Morgan Freeman: "Freedom, justice, and human...