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It’s appropriate to remember that the first PRIDE was not a party. The context was angst and trauma, and a refusal to be violated by conspiring systems of cruelty and hate. Pride was a FIGHT.
By Michael J. Crumpler | June 9, 2026 | From UpliftTagged as: #Pride, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Pride Sunday -
As we mark 250 years, the most important question is not whether LGBTQ people belong in the story. The question before us now is whether the United States is willing to remember the fullness of its own story and whether, at last, it is ready to become a nation where all of us belong and thrive.
By Kimi Floyd Reisch | June 5, 2026 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
On this International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, may we remember that these fears are really about freedom.
By Michael J. Crumpler | May 15, 2026 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
The great poet Khalil Gibran once said, “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.”If you have been watching the events unfold in Minneapolis and across the nation over the past month, you can see that truth unfolding in real time.What…
By Kimi Floyd Reisch | February 12, 2026 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
Justice is not a single heroic moment but a long, collective faithfulness—ordinary people staying connected, welcoming, and committed as change unfolds slowly through relationships over time.
By Kimi Floyd Reisch | January 14, 2026 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
On this (No) World AIDS Day, may we not be silent as we approach a year of 1 million AIDS-related deaths.
By Michael J. Crumpler, Kimi Floyd Reisch | December 1, 2025 | From UpliftTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
We’re thrilled to share a new Welcoming Religious Education Study Guide inspired by Imara Jones’s 2025 Ware Lecture at General Assembly: “Love at the Center: Defending Trans Lives and Democracy.”
Study Guide | November 13, 2025 | From UpliftTagged as: #LGBTQ, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Gender Justice, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Transphobia, Unitarian Universalism -
So, this year, I want to invite you to remember at least one person in a deeper way. Choose a name of someone whose story you’ve carried quietly in your heart since you learned of their loss. Learn something about their life, their passions, their joys.
By Kimi Floyd Reisch | November 3, 2025 | From UpliftTagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Transgender Day of Remembrance -
To honor LGBTQ History Month is to hold all these stories together. Pluralism insists that no single history is enough. To resist erasure requires remembering them all, carrying them all, and telling them all.
Discussion Guide | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | October 6, 2025 | From UpliftTagged as: #LGBTQ, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Coming Out, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality -
“The first rule of Bi Club is that you can talk about Bi Club all you want, because most people won’t believe it’s real anyway.” ~ Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick
Reflection | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | September 17, 2025 | From UpliftTagged as: #LGBTQ, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality
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