Posts Tagged ‘Slide’
Pride 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 MorePansexual Visibility Day
May 24 is the annual Pansexual Visibility Day! It is a day to uplift, educate and celebrate. “What is pansexuality?,” you might ask. Pansexuality comes from the Greek “pan,” meaning “all.” Pansexuality is a sexual orientation in which an individual is attracted to another person regardless of their sex or gender. This does not mean…
Read MoreHarvey Milk Day
In 2009, the State of California officially designated May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day” in order to commemorate one of the most outspoken LGBT government officials to this day. Harvey Milk was an activist, an organizer and the first openly gay man elected to office in the United States as a member of the San…
Read MoreAscension Day: A Testimony of Jesus’ Trust
We don’t often think about Ascension Day as one of the important Christian holidays; however, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Just as Christmas and Easter remind us of the incarnation of Jesus Christ and the resurrection of Emmanuel, Ascension Day solidifies the fact that God is with us. Through the ascension of Christ,…
Read MoreAgender Pride Day
May 19th marks Agender Pride Day! To be agender means to not identify as any particular gender. Agender is also called genderblank , genderfree, genderless, gendervoid, non-gendered, ungendered, or null gender. The agender identity falls under the nonbinary umbrella and (sometimes) the transgender umbrella. Agender people can have any preference for pronouns (he/she/they), but some prefer to avoid…
Read MoreInternational Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia! It was on this day in 1990 that the World Health Organization made the decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. The day was highlighted to draw attention to the discrimination and violence experienced by people with diverse sexual and gender orientations. Though the world…
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Portal to a New World:
An Earth Day Reflection
There are so many lessons to learn in this time of COVID-19, and specifically throughout Eastertide, the 50-day period between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday. On a positive note, we have witnessed the uniting of humanity. We have seen people come together, quickly to combat colossal issues. On a challenging note, we cringe at the…
Read MoreYom HaShoah 2020
A name is a life, a story, a whole world – relationships, thoughts, feelings and dreams, dreams, dreams. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, the air we breathe is filled with lives and worlds and dreams as Jewish communities all over the world read the names of those who perished in the Holocaust. Six…
Read MoreThe Loneliness of the Cross: Meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ in a Time of Pandemic [Audio]
Music credit: “Aspirato,” “Meekness” and “Daedalus” by Kai Engel, used under Creative Commons Attribution License. Transcript: For LGBT Christians who have been separated from their families and worship communities by fear and prejudice, holidays can always be a time of isolation. But now, in this strange Lenten season overshadowed by a pandemic, it seems that…
Read MoreConfessions of a Local Pastor
The lead deacon at my church called me several days into our mandated social distancing (I cannot recall which day he spoke to me because all the days blend into one another.) and asked if he could post encouraging words daily on our Facebook page. He commented that he had not seen many pastors or…
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