The movement's motto, which signaled to black LGBTQ communities that safe spiritual access would finally be provided, proclaimed that 'God is love and love is for everyone.'
Keynote speeches of the initial Transfaith Summit that in the following year (2010) became a series of TransFaith in Color Conferences. Valerie Spencer is the executive director of the Transcend Empowerment Institute. Jamison Green is an…
Kapaemahu is a multimedia education and community engagement project rooted in Hawaiian culture and dedicated to acceptance, respect, and inclusion for all. It is based on the story of four large stones that were long ago placed on Waikiki beach as a…
This organization worked with clergy, lay leaders and congregations. Its members strove to secure protections and inclusion for LGBT people in churches or houses of worship.http://www.lgbtfaithleadersofafricandescent.com
Mr. Navaho is accepted by family members and especially his grandparents who say that one's sexual orientation should not matter. His mother observed his girlish ways early in life but warned him not to venture into the feminine gender expression…
Kumu Hina, an educator, social and political activist, and Hawaiian cultural practitioner, shares her experience as a transgendered woman exploring her half Hawaiian, half Chinese ancestry. In her talk, she shares about a recent trip to China which…
There is the cultural revival of the Siletz traditional practices and rituals, as the author explains, "…like their traditional dance, nay-dosh, which is done in a traditional cedar dance house that seats a couple of hundred people, and the dancers…
Co-founded in 2014 by Dr. Wilhemina Perry, Circle of Life provides memorial services in honor of the LGBT dead. A wide range of sponsors comprise a consortium of supporters such as: Destination Tomorrow, Gatekeepers Collective, Griot Works Pastoral…
The money behind the project was granted by the National Endowment on the Arts, Spirit Mountain Community Fund, Oregon Arts Commission, the City of Salem, and the Maribeth Collins Art Acquisition Fund. The project included the acquisition of an…
"Spiritually devastated" and even rendered suicidal by her partners' death, Dr. Perry bemoans how they were not legally allowed to marry before her partner transitioned. This loss and other experiences of the couple being denied access to sacred…
Looks at people living in Singapore who have transitioned genders under Islam and how they differently manage their gender religious performance after their transition.https://www.ricemedia.co/navigating-faith-gender-as-a-trans-muslim
The Trans Zakat Project strives to forge a connection between two different Muslim populations. One is comprised of the many Muslims who actually do want to support their fellow Muslims who are trans and non-binary. The other group is comprised of…
Rejects the nuclear family model because it does not apply and promotes an extended family model in which "In addition,Two Spirit/LGBT people have historically played an important role in tribal communities, including as caretakers and medicine…
Bishop Yvette Flunder, Senior Pastor of City of Refuge United Church of Christ presents her talk on the theme of "Radical Hospitality" at the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area Clergy and Lay Leaders Retreat on August 16, 2011.