UPLIFT blog is for “Uplifting LGBTQ+ experience within and beyond Unitarian Universalism.” UPLIFT is a platform for the UUA to highlight LGBTQ+ issues and concerns by featuring related programming, reflections, and content circulated in our quarterly email newsletter.
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Side With Love Against Hate: A Post-Straight Pride Reflection “Let’s continue to turn our backs on hatred, using our voices to continue spreading the message of love.” — Mayor Marty Walsh
By Art Nava | October 30, 2019 | From UpliftTagged as: Acceptance, Activism, LGBTQ Issues, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Social Justice -
Over the next several months, I will be reaching out to Unitarian Universalists of many identities to discuss their experiences, impressions, and dreams of gender justice within Unitarian Universalism. Together I believe we can uncover a more inclusive gender justice. …
By Jude Sylvan | October 28, 2019 | From Uplift -
This date marks the anniversary of a public demonstration by intersex people and their allies at the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1996, at which they condemned nonconsensual surgeries on intersex people.
Blessing | By Jude Sylvan | October 22, 2019 | From UpliftTagged as: Body, Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ -
We celebrate those who come out! At the same time, we recognize that “coming out” is not everyone’s journey. You do not need to do anything to “become” LGBTQ+. You do not need to “come out” to be yourself. You are sacred, whole, and beautiful just as you are, right now.
By Jude Sylvan | October 8, 2019 | From Uplift -
On October 8, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether to take away existing employment protections for LGBTQ+ Americans. We need you to show up in your community for #OurDayInCourt!
By Michael J. Crumpler | September 30, 2019 | From Uplift -
September 23rd is Celebrate Bisexuality Day! Celebrate the bisexuality in your life. …
By Jude Sylvan | September 17, 2019 | From Uplift -
Nationwide #CloseTheCamps Protest Tuesday, July 2 — Children denied soap and toothbrushes, crowded into unsafe conditions. Separated from their families, subject to cruel treatment that leads to lasting traumas. And some dying in custody—or dying with parents as they cross the Rio Grande.
By Michael J. Crumpler | July 2, 2019 | From Uplift -
Unitarian Universalist Pride has been about being “called in” to recommit to our sixth Unitarian Universalist principle of peace, liberty, and justice for all.
By Michael J. Crumpler | June 14, 2019 | From Uplift -
Today we remember those killed at Pulse Nightclub. Today we remember those killed for their queerness. Today we remember those killed for their brownness. Heroes among the fallen.
By Michael J. Crumpler | June 12, 2019 | From Uplift -
Happy Pride Y’all! June 28, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which is known by many as the beginning of Pride. On June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village NYC, Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson threw the first shot glass as an act of resistance and resilience…
By Jude Sylvan, Michael J. Crumpler | June 11, 2019 | From Uplift
