Posts Tagged ‘LGBT Identity’
Join Our Pride Community Padlet!
For Pride this year, we’re focused on building community and sharing resources on our very own padlet! Here you will find a space to share Pride celebrations, with helpful resources, affirming graphics to download, information about our partners and an invitation to share your thoughts about how you identify. Curated by the Believe Out Team,…
Read MoreLGBT Terminology 101
At Believe Out Loud, we uplift and honor all identities and preferences within the LGBT community. Using the correct terminology is an important way of dignifying LGBT people and respecting self-identification. Here is a brief list of definitions of gender identities and sexual orientations to help better understand and celebrate the diversity within our community:…
Read MoreLGBT Icons
Over the decades, the LGBT community has had a hand in shaping society. From the arts and entertainment to the sciences and engineering, LGBT individuals have contributed to making life better for all of us. These five LGBT individuals are just a few who have made a great impact in the world within the past…
Read MoreHighlighting Black + LGBT Pioneers: Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker’s life story was unbelievably queer, boundary-defying and transgressive. The first indication of this is found in the St. Louis city records. Baker’s mother, Carrie McDonald, became pregnant while working for a German family, and was admitted to the exclusively white Female Hospital. This was 1906: America was segregated and patriarchal, and typically Black…
Read MoreBegin To Receive
I have begun to give…begin to possess. (Deut 2:31) What could God be possibly giving to me, that I am to possess? And as I think about that, it’s interesting that it is more than just “receive”. It is possess. I think other translations talk about conquering. Funny words “conquer” and “possess”. I have to…
Read MoreTrans People Are More Than the Violence Done to Us
I’m not a big fan of Trans Day of Remembrance. It’s a hard day for me and many other trans people. Marking a day to “remember those we’ve lost” feels like a misnomer. Most of us never forget the violence and abuse that our community members have experienced—largely because it is happening, right now. How…
Read More4 Reasons NOT To Host A Transgender Day of Remembrance Service At Your Church
“Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day for stories to be told and scripts to be rewritten. It’s a chance to reach out and come together against the dehumanizing violence that haunts our communities. Love is a call as well as a response, but most of all love is an action.” –Angelica Ross As Transgender…
Read MorePainting Frida Kahlo
As we begin the month of October and ghosts decorate our homes, I am reminded of the holy days that await us. Poignant to my own background, Dia de los Muertos beckons us to remember who has gone before us. Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday that is officially celebrated on October 31…
Read MoreBridging Beyond Binaries: Painting Gloria Anzaldúa
One of the great joys of being an artist and writer is working on commissions, enlivening in paint, canvas, and word the stories of revolutionary holy women who have emboldened and inspired the one commissioning the Holy Woman Icon. Gloria Anzaldúa was on my list of holy women for a while when Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza…
Read MoreReal Questions for Real Bisexuals!
Pictured clockwise: Ashley DeTar Birt, Hannah Soldner, Angélique Gravely, Alison Amyx, Keisha E. McKenzie, Beth Sherouse No one human being expresses their sexuality nor their gender in the exact same way as another. Yet we are all a part of God’s grand creation and blessed under God’s love. This is why, for #BiWeek, we wanted to know a little…
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