Elder Jean Evans, Elder Diane Hymans, Rev. Rebecca J. Tollefson
Groundbreaking conference gathers transgender Christian advocates
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Group letter to Committee on Ministry November 4, 1977
Wedmore's copy of the October 1960 roster of the group with his markings of later changes in contact information. "QCB" was Wedmore's facetious name for the group: "Quaker Committee on Buggery."
The Guardian published this prudent review of the report, its background and rationale on 18 February, 1963.
Guy Anderson, friend of William Larson, visiting New Orleans from Illinois.
Meeting room at the Hampstead Meeting House as it likely looked in the 1960s. Location of the 11 June 1960 Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality.
Records of Hampstead Meeting House (provided by Rod Harper)
Harlem Takes the Drag Ball To New Heights
A New York Times clipping reports that African American LGBTQ activity "bloomed" during the 1920s and 1930s in Harlem, Greenwich Village, Mid-town Manhatten, and near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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 Church; and 2) they would gather at the Hamilton Lodge where they would attend political events, banquets, church sermons, lectures, pageants, as well as an Annual African American drag ball, initiated in 1869, that drew 8,000 black and white onlookers.
Harlem World, The Legendary Hamilton Lodge Ball Home At The Rockland Palace Dance Hall In Harlem 1920’s. https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/the-legendary-hamilton-lodge-ball-home-at-the-rockland-palace-dance-hall-in-harlem/
Biederman, Marcia. "A Journey to an Overlooked Past." Clipping. 2000. Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/6d56zw90r (accessed November 25, 2022).
LGBT Religious Archives Network Pioneer Profile
Location of Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The front and side facades of Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church on a partly cloudy day.
"Harvard-Epworth" by timsackton is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.
This Navajo artist was a Nádleeh (pl. Nádleehi, meaning "one-who-has-been-changed"). According to Wikipedia, the Nádleehi are a third gender recognized by the Navajo people who embody traditionally male and female roles.
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 permanence provided by the medium of woven textiles. Yet, it was an act of cultural conservation when Hastiin Tłʼa sought to preserve the Navajo religion by helping a Boston heiress (his friend Mary Cabot Wheelwright) establish the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That institution later was renamed the Navajo Museum of Ceremonial Art when it repatriated sacred materials and remains back to the care of the Navajo people.