Read a June 18, 2013, article published by The New York Times about the release of documents that trace the beginnings of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy back to 1932.

Read a July 2, 2013, article published by The Christian Science Monitor about the clergy abuse scandal in Milwaukee. Newly released documents reveal plans to pay abusive priests to leave the church. The Milwaukee archdiocese is currently enmeshed in bankruptcy court after facing accusation of fraud from victims of sexual abuse.

Results of a September 2009 study by the National Center for Children in Poverty that showed that 20 percent to 40 percent of the nation’s homeless teens and youth identified as LGBT.

Resource packet published by Kaleidoscope, a project of the Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Interests, that has an excellent glossary of terms (queer, genderqueer, intersex, omnisexual, etc.) and a list of biblical quotes dealing with sexuality.

Statement in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA and Proposition 8.

A Catholic Sun article about the Catholic reaction to the Supreme Courts rulings on same-sex marriage.

This New York Times article is a guide to United States v. Windsor, the case where DOMA was ruled unconstitutional. 

Therese Saliba teaches international feminism at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.

Mohja Kahf is a poet and an associate professor of literature at the University of Arkansas. She writes about gender issues and Arab-American women.