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Ehlona Walker reflects on the realization that even in welcoming environments there is room to grow and in restrictive environments there are champions and allies.
By Ehlona Walker | September 22, 2017 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
Inspired by Sikhs who have been mistaken as Muslim responding to Islamaphobia by drawing the circle of love wider, Stanley Petkus calls on our LGBTQIA+ communities to stand up for each other.
By Stanley Petkus | September 22, 2017 | From Uplift -
Rev. Otto O’Connor commits to using the privilege afforded to him to continue to fight to support transgender people, locally and across our world, and especially non-binary people and transgender people of color.
By Otto O’Connor | September 21, 2017 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Support for Ministers -
“No one is outside the circle of love,” declares UUA president Susan Frederick-Gray. It is a call to draw the circle ever wider, to look beyond that which we know and ensure all are seen and validated. And so we sing “we are gay and straight together.” We recite “If you are straight and I…
By Kimberley Debus | September 21, 2017 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Issues, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
BSA Jamboree leadership challenged the values of the UUA, UCC and SFE while they were hosting the Friendly Cafe at the 2017 National Boy Scouts of America Jamboree.
By Michael J. Crumpler | September 21, 2017 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ -
The word “Welcome” comes from the Old English and means “one whose coming is pleasant.” I love that we begin with a welcome because as Unitarian Universalists, “welcome” connects us to our 7 principles. In Unitarian Universalism, you can bring your whole self: your full identity, your…
June 30, 2017 | From UpliftTagged as: Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ, Welcoming Congregation Program -
Midcoast Maine is not always a safe or easy place for LGBTQ people to live openly. A segment of the population remains homophobic and transphobic, and LGBTQ Mainers face harassment and discrimination. There are no LGBTQ bars or community gathering places.
June 30, 2017 | From Uplift -
These abuses are all part of a campaign against gay men in Chechnya. In this extremely conservative state, homosexuality considered a sin and a “stain on the family honor”. When the leader of Chechnya was asked to speak on behalf of these terrifying reports, he denied that gay people even lived…
By Hanna Skinner | June 30, 2017 | From Uplift -
Although I came out as trans with a plan in place, I had underestimated the losses that accompanied the truth of my identity. Being genuine seemed to make me less welcome than I’d ever been before. I won’t say that TRUUsT saved me; that seems over dramatic. I will say that attending the first…
By Anya Drew Johnston | June 30, 2017 | From Uplift -
As a queer woman of color, I experience the diminishment of my own humanity when people try to convince me that focusing on racism somehow ignores sexism, heterosexism, and all the other “isms” that work to make us small. Instead I understand white supremacy to cast a wide range of identities as…
By Sofía Betancourt | June 12, 2017 | From Uplift