For “the key to the next 30 years of gay America” writes The New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan, “keep your eye on the churches.” In an essay in The Advocate, the national gay and lesbian news magazine, Sullivan states: “No civil rights movement has ever succeeded in this country without the support of the churches….

Amid all the fundamentalist Ellenphobia, with its viciousness as well as adolescent jokes — like Jerry Falwell’s calling her “Ellen DeGenerate” — one sad but overlooked consequence to fundamentalism’s unpreparedness for homosexuality even within its own community is the fact that the father of actress Anne Heche, Ellen DeGeneres’s girlfriend, was a fundamentalist minister who…

Edman Chapel at Wheaton College is named for V. Raymond Edman, the evangelical college’s president from 1940 to 1965. His lesbian granddaughter, Liz Edman, is interviewed in the January issue of the newsletter of the Wheaton College Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association. Liz Edman, a seminary graduate, has worked for four years as a chaplain…