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Pride Conversations: A Q&A with Rev. Stan J. Sloan of Family Equality
Pride Month this year is unlike any other. With so much change in the world around us, one thing remains the same: the significance of Pride to LGBT people, their friends and families. To help share and spread Pride this month, we’re conducting a series of Pride Conversations. These brief Q&As are designed to help…
Read MoreHistoric Title VII Supreme Court Decision Upholds Workplace Protections for LGBT People
On the morning of Monday, June 15, 2020, with a decisive 6-3 majority, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled definitively that workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is an unlawful violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “An employer who fires an individual merely…
Read MoreIntersections International’s Statement on Racism and the Current Civil Unrest
Please find below Believe Out Loud’s parent organization’s statement on racism and the current civil unrest. “Do not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is threatened. I am the Lord.” – Leviticus 19:16 (NLT) Our nation is hurting. We are hurting. We are praying and we are marching. We are crying and shouting from…
Read MoreThe 4th Anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Courtesy: onePulse Foundation Today, June 12th, marks a day that devastated the LGBT community. Four years ago, 49 lives were lost after a man opened fire with an assault rifle at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida – one of Orlando’s biggest nightclubs and a safe haven for the LGBT community. Another 53 people were…
Read MoreBOL Presents: Behind the Mask
At the height of the pandemic, face masks became difficult to locate. Individuals turned to protecting themselves with bandanas, scarves and other makeshift items as face wraps. Grocery stores, pharmacies and businesses around the world adopted a “no face mask, no entry” policy – thereby further increasing demand for the coveted items. Image Credit: Shutterstock.com…
Read MorePride Conversations: A Q&A with Justin Fyala of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington
Pride Month this year is unlike any other. With so much change in the world around us, one thing remains the same: the significance of Pride to LGBT people, their friends and families. To help share and spread Pride this month, we’re conducting a series of Pride Conversations on this blog. These brief Q&As are…
Read MoreTrinity Sunday: When Death Becomes Life
So, what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we’ve left the empire where sin is dominant, how can we continue to make a home there? Did someone forget to tell you we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in…
Read MorePride Continues
June is LGBT Pride Month! With this current pandemic keeping us from gathering in large groups, some will say that this year’s Pride is cancelled, but this is not true. Though we can’t get together and rejoice with one another, Pride continues on within all of us. Parades may not be taking place this year,…
Read MoreShavuot: Write the vision. Make it plain.
How long must I wrestle with my thought and day after day have sorrow in my heart How long will my enemy triumph over me? -Psalms 13:2 Shavuot is one of the biblically-based pilgrimage holidays known as the shalosh regalim. It is celebrated as the divine revelation of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah. Pentecost is…
Read MoreAmnesty International Day
May 28th marks Amnesty International Day. Amnesty International is a non-governmental organization as well as a global movement that works to protect men, women and children around the world in cases where justice, dignity and truth are denied. Amnesty International’s goal is to prevent abuses to human rights and fights for justice for those whose…
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