Uplift Blog
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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The demon that rapes you has a way of making its home within you. You spend the remainder of your life laboring to exorcize this demon that is not you. Today, this demon was exorcised as Dr. Christine Blasey Ford sat before the world and uttered her truth.
By Michael J. Crumpler | September 27, 2018 | From Uplift -
A new approach to Welcome Renewal has come! To learn how to begin the Five Practices of Welcome Renewal at your congregation, please attend one (or more) of our monthly orientations.
Webinar | By Michael J. Crumpler | September 23, 2018 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Welcome & Inclusion for LGBTQ, Welcoming Congregation Program -
Sunday, September 23rd is Bi Visibility Day. Today and everyday, let’s let our bi family and friends know #WeSeeYou and we love you! #UPLIFTbisexuals #BiVisibilityDay #BiVisibilityWeek
By Marie Alford-Harkey, Debra Haffner | September 17, 2018 | From Uplift -
It is our fault as people of faith that the virus is what it is in the world. American religion, both liberal and conservative, is responsible for the rapid spread of AIDS in the 1980s and the 500K deaths by 1990.
By Michael J. Crumpler | September 6, 2018 | From Uplift -
As we honor our lives by celebrating PRIDE throughout the month of June, may all who chose to marry or chose not to marry continue the fight by exposing the hate that we all experience as we go about our daily lives.
June 12, 2018 | From Uplift -
On February 13th 2018, QDEP’s Bobby Steggert and Ian Zdanowicz participated in a panel organized by Unitarian Universalist Association at the All Souls Church. The topic of the event was forced migration of people identifying as LGBTQ. Debrown Idrissu and Edafe Okporo gave brilliant talks about
By Ian Zdanowicz | June 12, 2018 | From Uplift -
The new #ALLPrideMatters pride flag is not a divisive distraction from Pride, but a more perfect expression of Pride for are racialized context. The new #AllPrideMatters pride flag expresses a more perfect union of the Pride that we all hope to celebrate across the country and around the world in…
June 7, 2018 | From Uplift -
On May 27, 2018, Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at White Plains had a special LGBTQ Celebration Sunday Service, commemorating our renewal as an LGBTQ Welcoming Congregation. Our Welcoming designation dated back to 2005, but since then the transgender/non-binary movement has evolved…
By Anthony Arrien | June 7, 2018 | From Uplift -
Fast forward to a couple of months ago when my 80-year old godfather called to share the news that his beloved country, Trinidad and Tobago, had finally changed its legislation on Thursday, April 12, when Judge Devindra Rampersad “determined that sections of the Sexual Offences Act… criminalised…
By Janice Marie Johnson | June 7, 2018 | From Uplift -
“When the sharpest words wanna cut me down; I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out; I am brave, I am bruised I am who I’m meant to be, this is me.”
June 7, 2018 | From Uplift