Regardless of the structure, rituals, and principles of our path, and whatever the Divine name to whom we offer our prayers, bisexual and transgender people of faith live consciously and continually in the place where the twain meet.
2010
It’s So Queer to Give Away Money
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A different queer politics, focused on racial and economic justice and grassroots activism, has been growing stronger.
2010
Dismantling Hierarchy, Queering Society
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Queer politics calls us to go beyond a simple toleration for gay and lesbian communities to address how heteropatriarchy structures white supremacy, capitalism, and settler colonialism.
2010
The Uganda Controversy: Solidarity vs. Imperialism in LGBT Organizing
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Proposed legislation in Uganda would make homosexuality a capital offense. The legislation had been reportedly inspired by evangelical Christian leaders from the United States.
2010
The Intersection of Anti-Occupation and Queer Jewish Organizing
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As a queer Jew who is deeply critical of the Israeli government and deeply inspired by Jewish ritual, I have a deep desire for both political and spiritual fulfillment.
2010
The Hands of the Holy: Re-Envisioning LGBT Welcome in Faith Communities
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It’s time to develop new, compelling arguments about why faith communities should eagerly welcome and fully include LGBT people — arguments not based on the claim that people “can’t help” being lesbian or gay.
2010
The Transformative Promise of Queer Politics
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The story of Lt. Dan Choi’s protest action is a useful entry point into a discussion of the current trajectory of gay and lesbian organizing because it emblematizes one major reality of the activist moment: the widespread sense of urgency in pursuit of the assimilationist (rather than radically transformative) goals.
2010
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stern College: Gender Transition and Jewish Ethics
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I was sure that coming out as trans would end my employment by Yeshiva University, but after months when I was forbidden to set foot on campus, the unthinkable happened.
2010
It’s Time to Heal a Mega-Church Psychosis
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There is a psychosis that permeates many churches with regard to the presence and involvement of same-gender-loving (SGL) people, who have great love for God and for their church communities.
2010
Coming Home to Who We Are: Buddhist Spiritual Practice and Transformation
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As a young Asian American boy living in a mainstream Philadelphia suburb, I experienced many events of discrimination and racism that I did not know how to handle in my little life
2010
Same-Sex Weddings, Hindu Traditions, and Modern India
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Same-sex desire and even sexual activity have been represented and discussed in Indian literature for two millennia, often in a nonjudgmental and even celebratory manner, but a new virulent form of modern homophobia developed in India during the colonial period.
2010
Islam and Homosexuality
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In 2002 I began a long and lonely journey, daring to visit some of the darkest corners of the taboo that permeates the consciousness of that unlikely character: the gay or lesbian Muslim.
2010
Christians Seeing Red: An Evangelical Perspective
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To many in my faith, I’m a walking contradiction. I’m a Southern-bred evangelical Christian pastor and a “gay ally” (as straight advocates for the gay community are so awkwardly called).