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Quoting Carver from the book, The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver by Glenn Clark, Rutt relates the following:

“All my life I have risen regularly at four o’clock and have gone into the woods and…

Carver may have been spiritually asexual, preferring celibacy to his desire for sexual expression which he may have seen as a distraction from his intimacy with God. Removing his penis might be how he curbed his desire.

He intimated as much in his…

Glide clergy like Rev. Cecil Williams and Rev. Ted McIlvenna combined with a few homosexual leaders to organize the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964. This organization legitimized the effort to build gay community life under the…

Of particular interest in the clipping are two notations: 1) Countee Cullen, like other African American LGBTQ luminaries of the Harlem Rennaissance, felt compelled to hide their sexual and gender identities as members of the Salem United Methodist…

The male role of Hastiin Tłʼa was that of the medicine man. Their female role was that of a weaver. This artist, Hastiin Tłʼa, broke tradition when capturing the patterns used in their elusive impermanent sandpaintings in the relative stability or…

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…

Our community is vibrant, resilient, and robust, but it does not yet own the brick-and-mortar spaces it needs to commune, heal, and build. The South has the largest LGBTQ+ population in the United States – with Atlanta being a Black Queer (BlaQueer)…

Audio interview with one of the three performers who travel to different towns to help LGBTQ people having trouble with living their identities to own who they are. They help by talking to the locals they recruit to perform with them and help to open…

Today, Hijra performs dances, songs, and blessings at both births and weddings of Hindus. To many Hindus, hijras benefit a baby when they confer fertility, prosperity, and long life on the child. One to two days after a marriage ceremony—hijras will…