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Apr 18, 2007
Quickie Link: Don't Quote Me: Selling Out to God -- By Kim Ficera
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By vanrozenheim
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On a Tuesday morning last June in the parking lot of a mall, after speaking to a preacher, Venus magazine publisher and African-American gay activist Charlene E. Cothran decided to renounce her lesbianism and hand her life over to the Lord. Nothing wrong with that; ex-lesbians happen, and usually Jesus plays a role in the transformation. Why Cothran didn't have enough respect for her subscribers to "come out" for Jesus without condemning them in the process, and why she didn't have the journalistic integrity to sell her magazine to someone in the queer African-American community that would continue its original mission, are questions that beg for answers that don't reek of self-loathing.
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