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Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Text Any textual data included in the document A Homosexual Temple Holds Rites on West Side By MARCIA CHAMBERS The men took seats on wooden folding chairs in a semicircle in a room at a West Side church community center they call their synagogue. The lights dimmed. A young man with a maroon velvet American Hebrew Congregations, the congregational arm of Reform Judaism-which has more than 700 synagogue affiliates and more than one million members-for membership. If approved, the Los Angeles congregation would receive true identity for fear of professional retaliation. All those interviewed asked to be called by their first name or by a fictitious first name. "This is the first time I have felt at ease in a synagogue," David said. "It is the first time the two very different parts of Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource New York Times Article Description An account of the resource New York Times article on CBST, December 23, 1973. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York City, NY https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/a168e176a8e03a89aac5eacea87fe6ac.jpg 03b973dd78f7a6ebcedb0cc9d1ab9fd6 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document News of the World 17 February 1963 Shock Sex Report From Quakers One of the frankest-ever public discussions on sex and morals will be put out by BBC television during family viewing time tonight. It is based on a shock report by a group of Quakers who accept that the loss of virginity before marriage is no longer a stigma. Two of the 11 authors of the report, which will shake many religious leaders, will appear in the religious programme "Meeting Point" at 6:15 p.m. They are Dr. Anna Bidder, research worked in zoology at Cambridge University, and Mr. Kenneth Barnes, headmaster of a co-educational school at Wetherby, Yorks. LIVE The programme will be live, and the two Quakers will be cross-examined by a consultant psychiatrist. Said Mr. Barnes yesterday: "As far as I know the whole report will be discussed in the programme." The report which was compiled by doctors, psychiatrists, and schoolmaster, is published this weekend. One of the assumptions on which the group started their inquiries was that "the majority of young people of all classes, when they intend to marry, have sexual intercourse before they marry." PROBLEMS Here are some comments from the report: On marriage: "Sexual difficulties are many, arising from lack of knowledge and immaturity. "Sex, in addition to being a mystery, is also an appetite. People can talk quite freely about the foods they like and dislike. Similar frankness in the physical relationships could promote mutual understanding." On sexual intercourse: For many a man the experience, once finished, is complete, and leaves him with a sense of release and freedom with which he can easily turn to other things. "For a woman there is also release, but the experience remains with her and she does on dwelling on it." On virginity: "Its loss is not now...by the girl or her future husband as a stigma. "Restraint is exercised as often from choice and principle as from fear. With modern contraceptives reducing the fear of pregnancy, man and maid are on equal terms." On homosexuality: "An act which expresses true affection between two individuals, and gives pleasure to both does not seem to us to be sinful by reason alone that it is homosexual. "But we have been depressed by the utter abandon of many homosexuals, especially those who live in homosexual circles." The report does not condemn sexual relationships outside marriage but says it must be based on deep feelings between two people, each of whom cares what happens to the other. It adds: "Those of low sexual drive are often pillars of respectability who find it easy to enjoin upon others the sexual abstinence which comes naturally to them." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource The Upstairs Lounge Fire Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Text Any textual data included in the document 29 Killed in Quarter Blaze. Arson Possibility Is Raised by John LaPlace and Ed Anderson At least 29 people were killed and 15 others injured—six seriously—when a flash fire swept through a three-story building housing three bars and some apartments in the 100 block of Chartres Street Sunday night. The dead were either killed in the blaze or were mangled in the chaos to escape the searing flames which destroyed the second and third floors of the building. New Orleans Fire Department Supt. William McCrossen called the holocaust “certainly as far as the death toll goes, one of the worst in the history of New Orleans.” Police were investigating reports of a firebombing at the Upstairs, 604 Iberville, one of the three bars housed in the building at the intersection of Iberville and Chartres Streets. A man allegedly was being questioned in connection with the incident shortly after the fire was placed under control. Witnesses at the scene said the man being questioned allegedly was ejected from the Upstairs Bar shortly before the fire broke out. A security guard at the Marriott Hotel—across the street from the building—said he heard a hotel guest wanted to burn down the Jimani Bar, 141 Chartres St., another part of the building involved in the blaze. The other bar located in the building was La Normandie Bar, 139 Chartres St. Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Carl Rabin, who was at the scene, said, “It looked like all the people tried to get to the windows facing Chartres Street…it was a mass death. “Some of them were burned to the bone…It looked like mass hysteria…A mass of dead people.” Scene “Sickening” Inside the building Rabin said the scene was “sickening.” He added, “They were just piled up. People in a mass…one falls, then another falls…It’s just a mass of death.” The names of the dead were not immediately available. Firemen and police, as well as rescue workers, toiled into the night in the eerie shadow of klieg lights to remove bodies from the building. A mass of bodies was found Cont. in Sec. 1, Page 3, Col. 3 Bar Fire Toll is High Continued from Page 1 clumped together in the stairwel of the Upstairs. Arms dangled from the second floor windows; some bodies just hung limply—but scorched—from portals in the building in full view of spectators. McCrossen said the immediate cause of fire was undetermined but was being placed under investigation by the NOFD’s Fire Prevention Bureau. Arson Possibility However, one eyewitnesses at the scene said arson was a definite possibility. A spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department said that “35 to 40 persons” were on the second floor of the complex when the fire broke out at a party that was supposedly going on at the time. The fire broke out at 7:56 p.m. and was declared under control just 16 minutes later—at 8:12 p.m. However, the death toll was high and may go higher when authorities are finished shifting through the carnage. The incident brought to mind the Rault Center fire of last Nov. 29 in which four women leaped to their death from the 13th floor of the building during the noon lunch hour in order to escape the searing flames. McCrossen said that when he was in the building there were “several…many” bodies still waiting to be pulled out. The fire chief call the blaze “a rapid-moving fire” which destroyed the second floor where most of the persons were situated when the blaze broke out. Those injured in successful attempts to jump from the flaming structure were taken to Charity Hospital. Many of those who were killed died when they tried to jump from the building or from the mad chaos which broke out inside the bars. Seen from Street The bodies of some of the jumpers were visible from the street. Four were spotted on a fire escape on the Iberville Street side of the structure; six others were lying near the Chartres Street side. Several bodies were huddled inside the building, all trying to get out at one time. The body of one victim was found hanging out of the second floor window over the Jimani Bar. He was killed when a window fell on him as he tried to escape the inferno. Fire trucks from the Central Fire Station—located about three blocks from the scene as well as other parts of the city responded to the alarm, blocking streets in the immediate area to vehicular and pedestrian traffic. McCrossen said 87 men—manning a total of 13 engines, three hook and ladder units and five special units—fought the brief but deadly blaze. The second and third floor windows of the complex were damaged with the first floor of the building sustaining water damage. Linn Quinton, a patron of the Jimani Bar when the fire broke out, described the scene: “We were standing by the piano and I looked up and saw the door was on fire. And the place went up.” He added, “Everyone panicked and started running for the windows. I jumped to the window in the left corner, opened it, swung out, grabbed a pipe and slid down.” “I turned around and broke a couple other people’s falls but there were one or two who wouldn’t jump. I knew almost everyone in that bar. They were my friends.” Two men apparently were killed instantly when they jumped from the building. A third—weighing more than 200 pounds--leaped from the window with his clothes ablaze. Quinton added: “The small people seemed to get through the window but the bigger people just couldn’t get out. Dave Larsen, a pastor at Metropolitan Community Church, got caught in the window and I just watched him burn. “He had one arm out and I heard him scream, ‘Oh, God no!’ In the next window beside him three people burned to death while I could only watch.” There were some reports that the windows on the second and third floors of the building were nailed shut. A bartender a block away from the scene who identified himself only as Bill, said: “There was just a bit of smoke, then all of a sudden flames just shot out of all the windows. People started jumping out and flames were shooting 20 feet high. “One man was hanging out a window screaming: ‘Let me jump! Let me jump! to the crowd below. We knew there has to be at least two dead, because they were yelling and screaming behind the window and they never came out.” Injured Persons’ Names Are Listed The following is a list of the 15 persons injured—six seriously—in the fire which swept through three bars in a building at Chartres and Iberville Streets. The injured, their conditions, and where they are being treated include: --Michael Scarborough, 27; West Jefferson General Hospital; serious condition. --Sidney Estinache, 50; Charity Hospital; serious condition. --Luther Boggs, 47; Charity Hospital; serious condition. --Eddie Jillis, 52; Veterans Administration Hospital; serious condition. --Larry Stalton, 25; Charity Hospital; serious condition. --Jim Hembrick, 45; Charity Hospital; serious condition. --Fred Sharehwa, 22; Charity Hospital; fair condition. --Eugene Thomas, 42; Charity Hospital; fair condition. --Jean Gosnell, 36; U.S. Public Health Service Hospital; fair condition. --Roger Dunn, 36; Charity Hospital; ambulatory condition. --Adolph Medina, 32; Charity Hospital; ambulatory condition. --Bob Vann; Charity Hospital; ambulatory condition. --Francis Dufrene, 21; Charity Hospital; ambulatory condition. --Phillip Bird; Charity Hospital; ambulatory condition. --Linn Quintonn, 25 Charity Hospital; ambulatory condition. Blood, Moans: Charity Scene: Med Teams Race Time Against Confusion by Clarence DuBos A nurse’s aide mopped blood off the floor while an intern drew more from the arm of a scorched patient. Doctors in tennis shoes cut dead skin off the chest of a middle-aged man who moaned steadily while he was rocking on his side. More ambulances arriving with more stretchers bearing more cut and burned victims—that was the scene at the Accident Emergency room of Charity Hospital well into Sunday night. A fire flashed through a building housing three French Quarter bars several hours earlier on the corner of Iberville and Chartres Sts. Outside in the visiting area friends and family waited, with questions, prayers, and scattered bits of information. Confusion seemed to reign, yet tightly woven into the mesh of helter-skelter was a delicate pattern—a pattern of doctors and nurses racing against time to save the lives of fifteen victims whose injuries ranged from broken fingers to multiple fractures and third degree burns. Nurses divided themselves into teams. Some gathered blood. Others tried to get names from those who could talk, and still others checked for vital signs of life. Once every few minutes a doctor or nurse went out into the main hallway, where other patients from “less important” accidents patiently waited for treatment. One victim, who was able to move about somewhat freely and talk, asked for assistance in making a telephone call. His fingers were burned too badly to take the nickel out of his pocket and dial the numbers. Wide-eyed at the floor, he continued: “Listen…David? I’ve had sort of an accident. Yes, I’m at Charity Hospital. Yes, please come quick. Please come..I hurt…a fire. Tears ran freely down his cheeks. He slowly hung the receiver up and walked back into the Emergency Room. He couldn’t have been more than 19, and at five feet, seven inches tall, he made the sign of Cont. in Sec. 1, Page 2, Col 3 Charity Teams Aid Victims Continued from Page 1 the cross as he explained how his slight build saved his life. “I was on the second floor of the Upstairs,” he said, “all of a sudden there was a noise , and when I turned to the door I could see nothing but flames.” “Naturally, everybody panicked. They ran to the windows. My God, I’m so lucky I was the first one out. But it was terrible. There were steel bars on the windows and no one could get through!” He began to sob again. “My best friend was up on the third floor and I haven’t heard from him or seen him yet!” He slowly seemed to be gathering his wits again. Shaking his head slowly and looking “You see how slim I am. I was first to get to the window, and thank God…thank God I was able to get out. But the others..they…” “I got out the window, hung by my hands on the bars, and dropped to the ground (from the second floor).” He reentered the Emergency Room asking if anyone could X-ray his hand. Special guards tried to keep other patients in the hall and curious bystanders away from the vital entrances, where a steady stream of doctors, nurses and a few patients who could walk poured in and out, in and out, in and out. The race was on. Two priests entered the room and tried to comfort victims. A small child with a patch and a tube on his arm lay on a stretcher in the Emergency Room, watching doctors work on the fire victims, wondering what was the matter. More ambulances and more police arrived, and tide of friends and family swelled in the halls. Rumors and numbers floated around en masse. No one knew for sure “who” or “how many” there were, just “how badly.” The pieces of the pattern began to fall quicker and quicker into place: there were 15 in the Emergency Room; at least 29 were reported dead at the scene; those in the hospital were badly hurt, but were probably going to live. The race was over. Scene of French Quarter Fire Is Called Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ Hitler’s Incinerators Victims Reported Burned to Death Fleeing Spreading Blaze by John LaPlace The scene inside Upstairs Bar was from Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ Hitler’s Incinerators. At least 29 persons burned to death when trampled by others fleeing from a rapidly spreading blaze, according to Orleans Parish Coroner, Dr. Carl H. Rabin. The blaze rushed through the bar driving the victims to windows apparently closed over by paneling or some type of decoration. One survivor said “steel bars.” The horror of the holocaust could be seen easily from the street. One victim died while squirming through a partially opened window. The slim build of one survivor saved his life. “You see how slim I am,” the survivor said at Cont. in Sec. 1, Page 2, Col. 1 Fire Scene Said “Inferno” continued at Charity Hospital. “I was the first to get to the windows and thank God…thank God…thank God I was able to get out. But the others…they…” They were mangled and burned as they fought to get out the windows on the Chartres Street side of the building—falling one on top of the other. The dead were piled knee-high in a twisted, charred mass of death—some a few feet from safety. “They were just piled up. People in a mass…one falls then another falls…It’s just a mass of death…It’s sickening,” Dr. Rabin said. No Stairs In another corner of the bar, near a fire escape with no stairs to the ground, were the bodies of others. At least two others died crawling under a piano on the right side of the gutted barroom to the windows. Dr. Rabin counted 29, but the death toll could rise when the badly charred, entangled bodies are removed. Bodies were so badly burned, said Rabin, that identification would be difficult and take some time. Extinguish Blaze New Orleans firefighters extinguished the blaze quickly—14 minutes after arriving on the scene—but that was not fast enough. The grim job of removing bodies would continue in the glare of klieg lights mounted from fire trucks parked in narrow French Quarter streets of Chartres and Iberville until early Monday morning. Coroner’s assistants would untangle bodies two at a time, lowering them to the ground in a fire department snorkel, Rabin said. Then transferring bodies to the city morgue or Charity Hospital; where identifications of the victims of “one of New Orleans’ worst fires” would be made, he said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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McCrossen said it was the worst he had seen in 31 years in “terms of human life.” The second-story bar was in a building just a block from the Mardi Gras-famed Canal Street and sandwiched between the 42-story swanky Marriott Hotel and the French Quarter Holiday Inn, another new highrise. 87 Firemen Respond. Eighty-seven firefighters and 21 pieces of firefighting apparatus turned out to combat the blaze. A fire in the centuries-old French Quarter brings the fire department on the run as quickly as possible. Officials allowed newsmen up to the second floor after making sure that the building was secure. They saw bodies piled against windows on which bars had been placed as protection against burglars. The head and shoulder of one man poked through the window, as far as the burglar-preventing bars would allow. The rest of his body was charred. At the next window, a man died in a kneeling position with one foot poked through the window. Three or four bodies were piled atop his. “The place was a complete inferno when my men got there just two minutes after the alarm was sounded,” said McCrossen. McCrossen said he thought the 29 victims did not burn to death. “’The tiger,’” as he called the fire, never got to them while they were still alive. He said he thought all died from breathing “superheated gas and I’m talking about 180 degrees. That will knock you unconscious with just a couple of whiffs.” Bodies Removed. After police and firemen secured the burned-out room, the long task of removing the bodies began. It took more than three hours as hundreds of curious spectators lined the streets. A fire engine with a 65-foot lift arm kept raising and lowering its basket. Bodies in black rubber and plastic sacks were loaded into it to be lowered to the street. On the sidewalk below stood firemen with rolling cars to take the bodies to nearby ambulances. Roman Catholic priests quietly administered the last sacrament of the church. A young man, no more than 18 or 19, stood on the corner with tears streaming down his cheeks. “Sure I knew them, they were all my friends,” he said. Barred Windows Prevented Victims From Fleeing Fire. Burglar-proof bars over second floor windows prevented many of the 29 victims of the Sunday night’s French Quarter fire from jumping to safety. “I was small enough so I could get out,” said Adolph Medina, who had been standing at the fire at the Upstairs Lounge when the fire broke out. “I didn’t hear anyone shouting, but I felt the excitement and turned around to see the flames,” said Medina, 32, of San Antonio, Tex., as he stood in Charity Hospital awaiting treatment. Couldn’t Help. “And all I could do was stand there.” “My friend started toward the door, but it was blocked, so he turned back and gave me a push toward window,” said Medina, a slightly-built wig saloon manager. “I was panicked about jumping, but two guys urged me to jump and I was small enough so I could get out,” he said. “Some big guy on the ground caught me and I kept looking back, but my friend never got out.” “I loved him.” Many others died against the windows, including two bodies which slumped for hours at the window’s edge, one with the sleeve of a green sports coat unburned on a wrist, and the other, naked except for an undamaged brown workman’s shoe. “Four persons died in front of my eyes tonight,” said Linn Quinton, also awaiting treatment at Charity. “I was pleading and pleading with them, but they couldn’t or wouldn’t jump. The bigger people just couldn’t get out. Bill Larson, a pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church, got caught in the window and I just watched him burn. “He had one arm out, and I heard him scream, ‘Oh, God, no.’ And in the next window, three people burned and I could just watch.” Quinton, 25, of Houston, had been at the back of the bar when someone screamed ‘fire’ and he jumped for a nearby window, swung out of it, slid down a pipe and hit the street. Back Fire Escape. Others found a back fire escape. “I went through a back door with several others, ran through a theater where we used to produce plays and went down a fire escape to the street,” said a young man, who would not identify himself. But Quinton said he knew of no back fire escape—nor did most of the others. Officials at Charity Hospital said 15 persons were being treated for second and third degree burns early Monday morning. But the handful of lucky ones, who had escaped the tragedy with only lacerations and minor burns, sat in a hospital hallway discussing the friends they knew were trapped in the building. “I’ll tell you something,” said Quinton, “I’ll never go into a second floor bar again.” 13 of Dead Tentatively Identified. Working with scraps of charred drivers’ licenses and pieces of melted jewelry, police have tentatively identified 13 of the victims of Sunday night’s fire which killed 29. Chief of Detectives Henry M. Morris said the identities probably will not be confirmed until dental charts are obtained for the coroner’s office. “We don’t even have addresses on these people,” said Morris. Normal police policy is to withhold identities until they are confirmed, a police spokesman said. But since dental records will have to be mailed from all over the country, the spokesman said, police are departing from policy this time. Tentatively identified as victims of the fire were Leon Maples, Louis Broussard, John Goldring, Donald Dunbar, George Mitchell, Clarence McCloskey, Joe Bailey, Guy Anderson, David S. Gary, Norman Lavergne, Kenneth Harrington and Jerry Gordon. The body of one woman lay among the 29 victims in the morgue. She was identified as Inez Warren. “We don’t even know if these papers belonged to the people we found them on,” Morris said. “We’ve had calls from all over the country saying that friends or relatives of theirs hung out in that bar,” said a spokesman in the police information office. “All we can tell them is to get hold of a dental chart and mail it to us.” Many of the bodies were burned beyond recognition in the intense heat of the 20-minute blaze, the spokesman said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Fire leaves ‘mass of dead’ in bar French Quarter revelers trapped New Orleans (AP)—A flash fire swept through a second story bar in the French Quarter Sunday night, and authorities said 29 persons died. Several persons leaped from the building in flames. Fifteen persons were injured. The coroner’s office said early Monday that there was confusion over the exact number of dead, but they could confirm only 29 deaths. Bodies lay stacked under a burned piano and jammed against three windows. One man’s body was kneeling beside a window, with one foot outside. An arm dangled outside another window with a six-inch piece of unburned green sports coat around the wrist. Fifteen persons were known injured. “We were standing around the piano and I looked up and saw the door was on fire,” said Laurell Quinton, 25, of Houston, Tex. “The place just went up. Everyone panicked and started running for the windows. I jumped to the window in the left corner, opened it, swung out, grabbed a pipe and slid down. “I turned around and broke a couple of other people’s falls, but there were one or two who just wouldn’t jump. “I know almost everyone in that bar. They were my friends.” Two men apparently died in the jump, police said. A third man, described as weighing more than 200 pounds, leaped from a window with his clothes ablaze. Firemen dragged him across the street and put him in an ambulance. After the fire, the scene inside was ghastly, with bodies literally stacked on top of each other. Because of the mass, officials trouble determining the number of dead. Bert Barere, an assistant Orleans Parish coroner, said he had counted 28 bodies. Coroner Carl Rabin said he toured the burned ruins of the bar and had been unable earlier to determine the exact numbers of dead. Rabin said, “They were just piled up. People in a mass. One falls then another falls. It’s just a mass of death. It’s sickening.” Some apparently escaped down a fire escape but Quinton said he didn’t know anything about the fire door. “The small people seemed to get through the window, but the bigger people just couldn’t get out. Dave Larsen, a pastor at Metropolitan Community Church, got caught in the window and I just watched him burn” Quinton said. “He had one arm out and I heard him scream ‘Oh, God, no!’ In the next window beside him three people burned to death while I could only watch.” The bar as popular on Sundays, offering “all the food and beer you can drink for $2.” A bartender a block away said, “There was just a bit of smoke, then all of a sudden flames shot out of all of the windows. People started jumping out and flames were shooting 20 feet high. “One man was hanging out a window and screaming, ‘Let me jump! Let me jump!’ to a crowd below. We knew there had to be at least two dead because they were yelling and screaming behind the window and they never came out.” Fire Supt. William McCrossan said early Monday that the cause of the fire had still not been determined. When asked about reports that witnesses had told firemen an angry patron started the fire, McCrossan replied that none of his men had talked to anyone who claimed to have seen who started the fire. “There is absolutely no foundation as to the cause of this fire,” he said. “Anyone who says anything differently is only guessing.” McCrossan said the fire was under control 16 minutes after the first alarm sounded. City fire headquarters is only three blocks away. The blaze was in a place called “The Upstairs,” one block off Canal Street and across the street from the new 40-story Marriott Hotel. McCrossan said, “It could be one of the worst fires in the city history in term of people killed. “It burned so badly in here it’s hard to tell what happened.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Next Day Report in West Coast Newspaper Description An account of the resource The wire service story about the Upstairs Lounge fire is picked up by The Oregonian, largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Oregonian, June 25, 1973. https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/c436e693917c6332aee7c5c51db4afeb.jpg 7e14b6889839f13d96e21dcc5b4108a3 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/3a708965575fccd3f5e2cf5992343348.jpg 166cdeb283f94bac9416156624e75586 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/e6a6bb0cf849b2d26b4319aef13d028e.jpg 20c5b94f8dc5de56b3d35d09a94b74dc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Nicholas Wilkerson Stole Text NICHOLAS WILKERSON Elder Central Presbyterian Church Louisville, Kentucky Denomination Presbyterian Church (USA) Contribution Date 1996 Contribution Story Central Presbyterian was one of the early More Light congregations, the first in Kentucky, working for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in the life and leadership of the Presbyterian Church. Central practiced what it preached, ordaining LGBT persons as elders from the time they first became More Light. This is one of ten identical white satin stoles with rainbow ribbons honoring the ten self-identified gay and lesbian elders who served on Central's session between the church's becoming a More Light Church in the early 1980's and the 1996 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). These stoles were made by a young man who is a custom lampshade maker by trade, with the church's hope that they "will speak to the whole church for all of us who are part of its life, even though the church may not know it." Martha Juillerat Founder, Shower of Stoles Project 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Friends' School, Saffron Walden 2.2.63 Dear George: With reference to the document "Towards a Quaker View of Sex." I received it. I did some work on it. Suddenly I realised that time had gone even faster than I thought and that my comments would surely be too late to be any use. I believe it is being published this week. I hope it is all right. After very slow progress the last stages seem to have been rushed and I hope the document won't suffer as a result. I must say it reads well on the whole. Anyway I won't at this stage trouble you with a few comments which might arrive too late to be of any use to anyone. All best wishes. What do you think of it? Yours Kenneth 4th February, 1963 Kenneth Nicholson, Headmaster, Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Essex. Dear Kenneth, Many thanks for your letter. I agree with you that the last stages of "Towards a Quaker View of Sex" have proceeded with great speed, but this was necessary because of the Meeting Point Programme the B.C. hope to do on the February 17th. In fact I had asked for the final text to be in my hands by the middle of November and I got it in the middle of January. The printer has done a wonderful job in getting the type sete, and in fact I have already had Alastair's corrections this morning. Like you, I think that it reads well and I think the group has done extremely well. What (a) Friends will think of it, and (b) the general public will think of it--not to mention the Sunday Pictorial!--heaven only knows! If, as a result of censure, I get the sack, I shall look to Saffron Walden for a job as classroom cleaner! With warmest greetings to you both, Yours ever, George H. Gorman Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicholson & Gorman letters February 1963 Description An account of the resource Kenneth Nicholson wrote to George Gorman that the final stage of publication seemed hurried and Gorman replied.. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived HSC Quaker Group on Homosexuality records, Friends House, London. https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/b8af3b252eb56cf35450f3099a31a0fd.pdf 10a3200787bbd70df6c24a4a69e8b6a6 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicholson's Final Headmaster Report 1967 Description An account of the resource Final address by headmaster Kenneth Nicholson to the 1967 General Meeting of the Friends School Saffron Walden. Published in the School Report. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Archives of the Friends School Saffron Walden. https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/292bfe359e98f38096a3372e05a6acfd.jpg e808e06e3880dfb20e4c8c26625faecd Person An individual. Text Any textual data included in the document Nickie Valdez, a native of San Antonio, came out in the early 1960’s and has always been inclined to the spiritual aspect of life.  Her early involvement with the LGBT community began in the early 70’s, at the San Antonio Free Clinic (a city wide clinic funded in part by the United Way) where she volunteered for the switchboard (a hotline for the LGBT community).  At that time, the bars were the only convening places for the community in San Antonio.  Through her involvement with the Free Clinic and NOW, she met others who formed the Forward Foundation which organized the first  conference in San Antonio for the LGBT community in 1976 called “A Sense of Belonging”. She had also began gathering with other lesbians and gay men to talk and share about their sexuality as it related to their sexuality. The group would gather, pray, discuss scripture and it’s meaning in their lives as gays and lesbians. Then the group found Dignity, Inc., a national organization of LGBT Catholics.  She along with about 10-15 others, about half women and half men, started the local Dignity Chapter. Dignity San Antonio is the oldest LGBT organization in San Antonio.  Nickie has been a vital and active member of the Dignity community for its 41 years of service in San Antonio. She has also been a founder of other organization in San Antonio, including San Antonio Equal Rights Political Caucus and PRO SA (Progressive Religious Organizations of San Antonio) and worked hard to build bridges across communities and groups.  She and her spouse of 31 years, Deb Myers, were legally married in September of 2015. (This biographical statement provided by Nickie Valdez.) Biographical Text Nickie Valdez, a native of San Antonio, came out in the early 1960’s and has always been inclined to the spiritual aspect of life.  Her early involvement with the LGBT community began in the early 70’s, at the San Antonio Free Clinic (a city wide clinic funded in part by the United Way) where she volunteered for the switchboard (a hotline for the LGBT community).  At that time, the bars were the only convening places for the community in San Antonio.  Through her involvement with the Free Clinic and NOW, she met others who formed the Forward Foundation which organized the first  conference in San Antonio for the LGBT community in 1976 called “A Sense of Belonging”. She had also began gathering with other lesbians and gay men to talk and share about their sexuality as it related to their sexuality. The group would gather, pray, discuss scripture and it’s meaning in their lives as gays and lesbians. Then the group found Dignity, Inc., a national organization of LGBT Catholics.  She along with about 10-15 others, about half women and half men, started the local Dignity Chapter. Dignity San Antonio is the oldest LGBT organization in San Antonio.  Nickie has been a vital and active member of the Dignity community for its 41 years of service in San Antonio. She has also been a founder of other organization in San Antonio, including San Antonio Equal Rights Political Caucus and PRO SA (Progressive Religious Organizations of San Antonio) and worked hard to build bridges across communities and groups.  She and her spouse of 31 years, Deb Myers, were legally married in September of 2015. (This biographical statement provided by Nickie Valdez.) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nickie Valdez Catholic Dignity DignityUSA Nickie Valdez Roman Catholic https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/1e66020a73d922045bc2af305f89762e.jpg ed46e6796278b13f5153deceb1898262 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/a91618b894ff7dbcfaea31d1e29535a9.jpg 152a74e46ec296c4ca1b2a4c6648f214 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/567d92b493e3e71a05f13642a9d88501.jpg ee6f873e82e77313b208b8cce71ec511 https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/a11cfa1098b81ed97fd00a9a36dbdfc9.jpg 74075939b8e7d6d1e050445402e69b21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Nicole Garcia Stole Text Nicole Garcia Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Longmont, CO Nicole M. Garcia (she/her/hers) self-identifies as an out and proud transgender Latina of faith. Nicole has a Master of Arts in Counseling from the University of Colorado Denver and is a Nationally Certified Counselor. She is a gender specialist in private practice. Nicole is a Candidate for Ordained Ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Nicole is pursuing a Master of Divinity through a Distributed Learning program at Luther Seminary in St. Paul MN. Nicole hopes to earn her M. Div. and be approved for ordination in the fall of 2018. Nicole has been featured in an article by the Religious News Service which was picked up by The Huffington Post, Washington Post, and The Christian Century. She was also interviewed for a podcast on Religion for Life. Nicole has had recent articles posted in the New York Times and OnFaith by faithstreet.com. Nicole has been a keynote speaker, facilitated workshops, and/or participated in panels concerning gender identity and spirituality in Boston, Charlotte, Duluth, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Paul, Washington D.C., and throughout the state of Colorado. Nicole credits the opportunities she has been given to pursue her career as a gender specialist and as a Candidate for Ordained Ministry in the ELCA to the people who blazed the trail for inclusion of the LGBT community in the church and society. Denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Roman Catholic Church Contribution Date 2015 Contribution Story Nicole was a member of the 2015 Trans Seminarian Cohort, a partnership between the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA, the Freedom Center for Social Justice in Charlotte, NC, and the National LGBTQ Task Force. Nicole Garcia's biographic profile can be read <a href="https://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=325">here</a>, in the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network's Profile Gallery. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1232 Title A name given to the resource Nicole Garcia Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Longmont, Colorado (USA) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nicole Garcia Catholic Colorado Evangelical Lutherans of America (ELCA) Garcia, Nicole Latinx Lutheran National LGBTQ Task Force Ordination Roman Catholic Transgender activism Women and Religion https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/03a2408884704028c32f6099e4e11a53.jpg ca72c3d6ad77648e3fc47bb30eec356b Person An individual. Text Any textual data included in the document Nicole Michelle Garcia was born Michael on December 12, 1959, in Boulder, Colorado, the oldest son in a Hispanic, Roman Catholic family. On December 12, 1532, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to an Indian peasant, Juan Diego, and told him to take roses to the Bishop of Mexico. As Juan Diego opened his blanket, the roses fell to the floor and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared on the blanket. Michael was a Guadalupano. The church and the Virgin of Guadalupe were important parts of life during his formative years. He grew up a good Roman Catholic boy; played guitar in the church choir. While in college, he served on the church council. To the world, Michael was a quiet, studious, young man. On the inside, he constantly battled depression. He tried too hard, but never felt like he fit in anywhere. He prayed to God to help him fit in. He didn’t like the things the other guys liked and felt uncomfortable spending time doing “guy things.” Michael met Gwyn while in college at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She seemed to like Michael because he was gentle and sensitive. Gwyn was his first “girlfriend” and was very independent and open-minded. She introduced him to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Michael saw this movie at least 30 times in two years. He had never heard the term “transvestite” before and had never thought anyone else liked to do what he did. When he told Gwyn he liked wearing women’s clothes, she was not surprised. She actually let him “dress up” for her. Michael received a B.A. in political science in 1982 and started graduate school. During the first semester his  relationship with Gwyn ended. He feared he would never again find someone with whom he felt safe with this secret. He did not finish the second semester; moved out of his parents’ house and lived in a house with friends. Michael worked in retail sales--at one time or another, he sold men’s clothing, jewelry, women’s perfume and cars. By November of 1989, he was living with a cousin in the back room of her trailer. Life was going nowhere, fast. One morning he ended up in a detox center. He realized that he had lost all direction, faith and hope.  He started attending Alcoholics Anonymous and grudgingly allowed God back into his life. During the following years, Michael worked hard--was promoted a few times and became an assistant store manager. He was able to afford his own place. He was praying again, but hadn’t found a church to attend on a regular basis. Michael was “buying and purging” on a regular basis. He would get the courage to buy a few pieces of women’s clothing to wear around the house. Later he would feel terrible about having these feelings and throw away all the women’s garments. He tried to repress those so-called “shameful” feelings. Michael met a woman in 1993 who seemed like every man’s dream. The family adored her. They were married on October 1, 1994, in a big wedding in a Roman Catholic Church. Michael began a new career, law enforcement. He didn’t have to think about what he was supposed to wear. He was trained to be to be commanding and finally learned to be macho. By his 41st birthday, he was married to a wonderful woman and they both had successful careers. They lived in a large house near downtown Denver with two new cars in the garage. But there were problems looming. They wanted kids, but she didn’t get pregnant. Michael managed to avoid sexual situations as much as possible--usually working second shift and taking on extra duties. He was still trying to repress his shameful feelings and began drinking again. They agreed to divorce and he moved to a little house in the suburbs. The downward spiral continued and Michael even contemplated suicide. But when his employer sent out a message about confidential mental health treatment, he made the call out of desperation. After two sessions, the therapist recommended long-term therapy. With the therapist's help, he began to come to terms with the fact that he may be a “cross-dresser.” At the therapist's recommendation, he went to a support group at the Gender Identity Center of Colorado (GIC). In February 2003, Michael attended the Goldrush Conference, sponsored by the GIC, bringing together the transgender world for a few days. Speakers and workshops dealt with a wide variety of topics, such as make-up, clothes, surgeries, therapy and how to walk and talk like a man or a woman. Although Michael went to the conference to come to terms with being a cross-dresser, he sat in on a workshop that dealt with transsexuals. As he sat there and listened to the stories, he started realizing they were telling his story. During that workshop, Michael had a “moment of clarity,” a term from the AA Big Book. This moment happened when he realized and accepted who he was. Michael was a woman. Then came a feeling Michael had never felt before--inner peace. The prospect of making this gender transition--to become Nicole--was huge. Her therapist referred her to another therapist, who specialized in Gender Identity Disorder. She was referred to a medical doctor and on July 8, 2003, started hormone replacement therapy. As a part of therapy, she decided to dress as a woman during the evenings and on weekends. She began attending St. Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Denver with René, a friend from the GIC conference. She joined St. Paul after several months--in April 2004--because the people treated her as an individual, not as a transgender woman. Nicole first talked with her sisters about her transition. Nicole's parents also took it well, but feared Nicole would end up alone in the world. After giving them six months to process the reality of Michael becoming Nicole, she began to wear more feminine clothing on family visits, then some make-up. It took time, patience and understanding, but Nicole's family worked through this transition. The reaction at work was easier than expected. Nicole initially came out to an officer with whom she had a close professional and personal relationship. With her help, she told a few more officers, then her immediate supervisor. After some consultation Nicole was asked to attend a department-wide supervisors’ meeting where the Director gave her full support, directing all supervisors to contact her directly if there was any dissention in the ranks. Nicole was transferred from the streets to a desk position for the transition. It wasn't long before everyone in the office was a friend and supporter. Nicole had gender reassignment surgery in Trinidad, Colorado, on November 11, 2005. Her birth certificate was amended to reflect her new name, Nicole Michelle García, and sex, female. Soon thereafter, Nicole was transferred back to the streets at work. In July 2008, Nicole was elected the Transgender Representative on the board of directors of Lutherans Concerned/North America (LC/NA). In June 2011, Nicole became the co-chair of the board of directors. Being a member of the board of LC/NA has provided many opportunities. In 2010, Nicole accepted an invitation to join the Latino/a Roundtable, sponsored by the Pacific School of Religion, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Ministry and Religion. In 2011, Nicole joined the board of directors of the Interfaith Working Group (IWG). IWG supports people of transgender and gender non-conforming experience by being the umbrella organization for TransFaith On-line, Allies Gather, and the Yes! Coalition of Philadelphia. Nicole chairs the Leadership Development Committee as a member of the IWG board. In that capacity, Nicole is reaching out to connect with individuals in the transgender and gender non-conforming community to develop the future leaders of the movement. In an effort to understand the complexity of human existence, Nicole has become a graduate student in counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. Nicole is on track to earn a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology in August 2013. And, after fulfilling the requirements for the state of Colorado, intends to become a Licensed Professional Counselor. As a self-identified transgender Latina, Nicole has presented workshops at two previous LC/NA biennial assemblies (2008 and 2010), at National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change (2009. 2011, and 2012), the Philadelphia TransHealth Conference, (2009, 2010, 2011), and countless events in Boulder County Colorado for PFLAG, Boulder County Public Health, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Nicole is a trainer for A La Familia - a bilingual guide for addressing LGBT inclusion in Catholic and Protestant Latino families and congregations created by The Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and UNIDOS, the National Latina/o LGBT Human Rights Organization. (This biographical statement written by Mark Bowman from an autobiographical article by Nicole Garcia in the Winter 2007 issue of LC/NA's Concord and from additional information provided by Nicole.) Biographical Text Nicole Michelle Garcia was born Michael on December 12, 1959, in Boulder, Colorado, the oldest son in a Hispanic, Roman Catholic family. On December 12, 1532, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to an Indian peasant, Juan Diego, and told him to take roses to the Bishop of Mexico. As Juan Diego opened his blanket, the roses fell to the floor and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared on the blanket. Michael was a Guadalupano. The church and the Virgin of Guadalupe were important parts of life during his formative years. He grew up a good Roman Catholic boy; played guitar in the church choir. While in college, he served on the church council. To the world, Michael was a quiet, studious, young man. On the inside, he constantly battled depression. He tried too hard, but never felt like he fit in anywhere. He prayed to God to help him fit in. He didn’t like the things the other guys liked and felt uncomfortable spending time doing “guy things.” Michael met Gwyn while in college at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She seemed to like Michael because he was gentle and sensitive. Gwyn was his first “girlfriend” and was very independent and open-minded. She introduced him to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Michael saw this movie at least 30 times in two years. He had never heard the term “transvestite” before and had never thought anyone else liked to do what he did. When he told Gwyn he liked wearing women’s clothes, she was not surprised. She actually let him “dress up” for her. Michael received a B.A. in political science in 1982 and started graduate school. During the first semester his  relationship with Gwyn ended. He feared he would never again find someone with whom he felt safe with this secret. He did not finish the second semester; moved out of his parents’ house and lived in a house with friends. Michael worked in retail sales--at one time or another, he sold men’s clothing, jewelry, women’s perfume and cars. By November of 1989, he was living with a cousin in the back room of her trailer. Life was going nowhere, fast. One morning he ended up in a detox center. He realized that he had lost all direction, faith and hope.  He started attending Alcoholics Anonymous and grudgingly allowed God back into his life. During the following years, Michael worked hard--was promoted a few times and became an assistant store manager. He was able to afford his own place. He was praying again, but hadn’t found a church to attend on a regular basis. Michael was “buying and purging” on a regular basis. He would get the courage to buy a few pieces of women’s clothing to wear around the house. Later he would feel terrible about having these feelings and throw away all the women’s garments. He tried to repress those so-called “shameful” feelings. Michael met a woman in 1993 who seemed like every man’s dream. The family adored her. They were married on October 1, 1994, in a big wedding in a Roman Catholic Church. Michael began a new career, law enforcement. He didn’t have to think about what he was supposed to wear. He was trained to be to be commanding and finally learned to be macho. By his 41st birthday, he was married to a wonderful woman and they both had successful careers. They lived in a large house near downtown Denver with two new cars in the garage. But there were problems looming. They wanted kids, but she didn’t get pregnant. Michael managed to avoid sexual situations as much as possible--usually working second shift and taking on extra duties. He was still trying to repress his shameful feelings and began drinking again. They agreed to divorce and he moved to a little house in the suburbs. The downward spiral continued and Michael even contemplated suicide. But when his employer sent out a message about confidential mental health treatment, he made the call out of desperation. After two sessions, the therapist recommended long-term therapy. With the therapist's help, he began to come to terms with the fact that he may be a “cross-dresser.” At the therapist's recommendation, he went to a support group at the Gender Identity Center of Colorado (GIC). In February 2003, Michael attended the Goldrush Conference, sponsored by the GIC, bringing together the transgender world for a few days. Speakers and workshops dealt with a wide variety of topics, such as make-up, clothes, surgeries, therapy and how to walk and talk like a man or a woman. Although Michael went to the conference to come to terms with being a cross-dresser, he sat in on a workshop that dealt with transsexuals. As he sat there and listened to the stories, he started realizing they were telling his story. During that workshop, Michael had a “moment of clarity,” a term from the AA Big Book. This moment happened when he realized and accepted who he was. Michael was a woman. Then came a feeling Michael had never felt before--inner peace. The prospect of making this gender transition--to become Nicole--was huge. Her therapist referred her to another therapist, who specialized in Gender Identity Disorder. She was referred to a medical doctor and on July 8, 2003, started hormone replacement therapy. As a part of therapy, she decided to dress as a woman during the evenings and on weekends. She began attending St. Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Denver with René, a friend from the GIC conference. She joined St. Paul after several months--in April 2004--because the people treated her as an individual, not as a transgender woman. Nicole first talked with her sisters about her transition. Nicole's parents also took it well, but feared Nicole would end up alone in the world. After giving them six months to process the reality of Michael becoming Nicole, she began to wear more feminine clothing on family visits, then some make-up. It took time, patience and understanding, but Nicole's family worked through this transition. The reaction at work was easier than expected. Nicole initially came out to an officer with whom she had a close professional and personal relationship. With her help, she told a few more officers, then her immediate supervisor. After some consultation Nicole was asked to attend a department-wide supervisors’ meeting where the Director gave her full support, directing all supervisors to contact her directly if there was any dissention in the ranks. Nicole was transferred from the streets to a desk position for the transition. It wasn't long before everyone in the office was a friend and supporter. Nicole had gender reassignment surgery in Trinidad, Colorado, on November 11, 2005. Her birth certificate was amended to reflect her new name, Nicole Michelle García, and sex, female. Soon thereafter, Nicole was transferred back to the streets at work. In July 2008, Nicole was elected the Transgender Representative on the board of directors of Lutherans Concerned/North America (LC/NA). In June 2011, Nicole became the co-chair of the board of directors. Being a member of the board of LC/NA has provided many opportunities. In 2010, Nicole accepted an invitation to join the Latino/a Roundtable, sponsored by the Pacific School of Religion, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Ministry and Religion. In 2011, Nicole joined the board of directors of the Interfaith Working Group (IWG). IWG supports people of transgender and gender non-conforming experience by being the umbrella organization for TransFaith On-line, Allies Gather, and the Yes! Coalition of Philadelphia. Nicole chairs the Leadership Development Committee as a member of the IWG board. In that capacity, Nicole is reaching out to connect with individuals in the transgender and gender non-conforming community to develop the future leaders of the movement. In an effort to understand the complexity of human existence, Nicole has become a graduate student in counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. Nicole is on track to earn a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology in August 2013. And, after fulfilling the requirements for the state of Colorado, intends to become a Licensed Professional Counselor. As a self-identified transgender Latina, Nicole has presented workshops at two previous LC/NA biennial assemblies (2008 and 2010), at National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change (2009. 2011, and 2012), the Philadelphia TransHealth Conference, (2009, 2010, 2011), and countless events in Boulder County Colorado for PFLAG, Boulder County Public Health, and the University of Colorado Boulder. Nicole is a trainer for A La Familia - a bilingual guide for addressing LGBT inclusion in Catholic and Protestant Latino families and congregations created by The Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and UNIDOS, the National Latina/o LGBT Human Rights Organization. (This biographical statement written by Mark Bowman from an autobiographical article by Nicole Garcia in the Winter 2007 issue of LC/NA's Concord and from additional information provided by Nicole.) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nicole Garcia Catholic LC/NA Lutheran Lutherans Concerned Nicole Garcia Roman Catholic TransFaith Online https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/ed17ef9bcba82d580e6d8fbfceaa274f.png 555bed0511037c70068264e9dcdb9eb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource Podcasts from WMPG.org and 90.9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Subject The topic of the resource Queer Spirit Podcast Description An account of the resource A headshot of Nicole Manganelli. Nicole is a queer femme printmaker and freelance graphic designer based in Portland, Maine. As a member of Pickwick Independent Press, a community printshop, she focuses her design and printmaking on supporting movement organizations and projects that are fighting for racial, economic, gender, and climate justice. She's a deep believer in the magic of organizing, the sacredness of the earth's cycles, and the divinity of all things. You can find her work at radicalemprints.com or @radicalemprints on Instagram. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Marvin Ellison & Tamara Torres McGovern Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Nicole Manganelli Title A name given to the resource Nicole Manganelli Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Nina Boal Stole Text Love is the fulfilling of the law Nina Boal Christ UMC, Columbia, MD previously St. John's UMC, Baltimore, MD choir member scripture reader make and donate crafts for church fundraising This church is important to me because it brings me the Good News of Jesus' teachings. Jesus did not condemn love, He praised and extolled is. Jesus is my salvation. The Bible reading embroidered on my stole (Romans 13:8) illustrates how Scripture praises loving relationships. The Bible is on my stole because I have found it to contain wisdom beyond all belief -- more wisdom than humans who seek to change its meaning can know. Humans can know this true wisdom if they would only open their hearts. God is love. Denomination United Methodist Church Contribution Date 2000 Contribution Story This stole arrived with thirteen stoles given to us by Dumbarton UMC in advance of the 2000 General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Cleveland, OH. Dumbarton is a Reconciling congregation, working for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the life and leadership of the United Methodist Church. In 1999, the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) inquired about the possibility of having a display of the Shower of Stoles at the General Conference the following April. At the time, there were only around twenty United Methodist stoles in the collection. We decided to introduce the Shower of Stoles to the Reconciling community by bringing the twenty UM stoles and about a hundred others to RMN’s Convocation in Denton, TX over the Labor Day weekend. Stoles started to trickle in during the fall, and by February they began coming in droves. In all, we received 220 United Methodist stoles – the vast majority of them arriving within eight weeks of the Conference. Thanks to a monumental effort by a number of volunteers who pitched in to help record, inventory, sew labels and make last-minute repairs, all of the new stoles were present in Cleveland. Twenty more people brought stoles directly to Cleveland, bringing the total number on display to 240. Towards the end of the General Conference, twenty eight lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender United Methodists and allies stood on the Conference floor in silent protest over the Conference’s failure to overturn the ban on LGBT ordination – a profound witness and act of defiance for which they were later arrested. As these twenty eight moved to the front of the room, another 200 supporters stood up around the balcony railing, each wearing one of the new United Methodist stoles. Hundreds more stood in solidarity as well, in the balcony and on the plenary floor, wearing symbolic “stoles” made from colorful bands of cloth. A group of young people from Minneapolis, members of a Communicant’s Class, had purchased bolts of cloth the preceding evening and stayed up all night cutting out close to a thousand of these “stoles.” In less than eight months, a handful of stoles had grown to become a powerful, visible witness to the steadfast faith of LGBT United Methodists nationwide. Martha Juillerat Founder, Shower of Stoles Project 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 662 Title A name given to the resource Nina Boal Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Columbia, Maryland (USA) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Christ United Methodist Church Boal, Nina Maryland Methodist Reconciling Ministries Network (formerly Reconciling Congregation Program) Theology United Methodist Church Women and Religion Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Norman Wright Stole Text Rev. Norman Wright California-Pacific Conference United Methodist Church Given by Ed Hansen, Pastor Hollywood United Methodist Church, California This stole is given in memory of the Reverend Norman Wright, a United Methodist pastor who served in the California-Pacific Conference. It was the stole that Norm and his wife had prepared for me when I was privileged to co-officiate at their wedding. Norm was tragically killed in an auto accident in the 1980's. He was deeply committed to justice issues and gave leadership for this in the Conference and District. The inclusion of gay, lesbian and bisexual persons was at the top of his list of concerns. His own bisexuality did not prevent him from entering in to a wonderful marriage. Rather it enabled him to have understanding and empathy with those who felt marginalized by their sexual orientation. I dedicate this stole to Norm's memory. Denomination United Methodist Church Contribution Date 2000 Contribution Story This stole, in memory of Norman Wright, a United Methodist minister who was bisexual, was given to us in advance of the 2000 General Conference of the UnitedMethodistChurch in Cleveland, OH. It is one of two stoles given to the collection by Ed Hansen (#716 & 719). In 1999, the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) inquired about the possibility of having a display of the Shower of Stoles at the General Conference the following April. At the time, there were only around twenty United Methodist stoles in the collection. We decided to introduce the Shower of Stoles to the Reconciling community by bringing the twenty UM stoles and about a hundred others to RMN’s Convocation in Denton, TX over the Labor Day weekend. Stoles started to trickle in during the fall, and by February they began coming in droves. In all, we received 220 United Methodist stoles – the vast majority of them arriving within eight weeks of the Conference. Thanks to a monumental effort by a number of volunteers who pitched in to help record, inventory, sew labels and make last-minute repairs, all of the new stoles were present in Cleveland. Twenty more people brought stoles directly to Cleveland, bringing the total number on display to 240. Towards the end of the General Conference, twenty eight lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender United Methodists and allies stood on the Conference floor in silent protest over the Conference’s failure to overturn the ban on LGBT ordination – a profound witness and act of defiance for which they were later arrested. As these twenty eight moved to the front of the room, another 200 supporters stood up around the balcony railing, each wearing one of the new United Methodist stoles. Hundreds more stood in solidarity as well, in the balcony and on the plenary floor, wearing symbolic “stoles” made from colorful bands of cloth. A group of young people from Minneapolis, members of a Communicant’s Class, had purchased bolts of cloth the preceding evening and stayed up all night cutting out close to a thousand of these “stoles.” In less than eight months, a handful of stoles had grown to become a powerful, visible witness to the steadfast faith of LGBT United Methodists nationwide. Martha Juillerat Founder, Shower of Stoles Project 2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 716 Title A name given to the resource Norman Wright Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant California (USA) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rev. Ed Hansen Bisexual activism California Clergy Activist Hansen, Ed Methodist Ordination Reconciling Ministries Network (formerly Reconciling Congregation Program) Theology United Methodist Church Wright, Norman Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shower of Stoles Description An account of the resource Items (stoles) for the Shower of Stoles exhibit Stole A stole in the Shower of Stoles exhibit Honoree The person honored by the creation of thestole. Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod Staff (Solidarity Stole) Stole Text To our gay brothers and lesbian sisters whom this church shuts out or forces into hiding, we say, in the words of the Order for the Ordination of a Pastor, “…be of good courage, for God has called you, and your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” Denomination Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Contribution Date 2015 Contribution Story Originally a part of the collection of stoles housed by ReconcilingWorks (formerly known as Lutherans Concerned), this stole was donated by them to the Shower of Stoles Project in 2015. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1209 Title A name given to the resource Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod Staff (Solidarity Stole) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Pennsylvania (USA) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod Staff Ally Clergy Activist Evangelical Lutherans of America (ELCA) Lutheran Ordination Pennsylvania Reconciling Works (formerly Lutherans Concerned) https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/5e18e184929061e4cae93ded0bfe19c4.jpg 6300e43ca35234599f160b0f067ffaa9 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notes on Participants at 11 June 1960 Conference Description An account of the resource Hand-written page on which Keith Wedmore appears to have noted some of the participants in the 11 June 1960 Conference on Some Problems of Homosexuality. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Keith Wedmore Papers https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/73b419c5b221471334561e645c7a92b4.jpg eed82345694f561f6694ced2fd0fcb2b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Historical Development of BIPOC Trans-spiritual Leadership Website A resource comprising of a web page or web pages and all related assets ( such as images, sound and video files, etc. ). URL https://www.nqapia.org/about Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance empowers LGBTQ+ Asians and Pacific Islanders through movement capacity building, policy advocacy, and representation. Founded in 2005 as a federation of dozens of small, volunteer-run groups across the country, NQAPIA is embedded in generations- and centuries-old traditions of resistance, resilience, and community-making among LGBTQ+ Asians and Pacific Islanders.   <a href="https://www.nqapia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.nqapia.org</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://www.nqapia.org Title A name given to the resource NQAPIA https://exhibits.lgbtran.org/files/original/9b4c65a36e59b4308bec8fc25ab44610.pdf 9037805eee45584068c07fc6481c9fae Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document New York Council on Religion and the Homosexual Basic Biography The following bibliography represents a basic listing of contributions from religious sources to the literature on homosexuality. It has been prepared by the Council on Equality for Homosexuals (CEH) for use by the New York Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH) at the request of the West Side Discussion Group (WSDG), the sponsoring organization. If so desired, an expanded, annotated listing can be prepared. 1. Atkinson, Ronald. Sexuality Morality. Harcourt, Brace and World, New York, 1966. 2. Lassoe, John. "The New Morality in the Great Society." Speech made to the 1965 ECHO conference. Reprints available from the Mattachine Society of New York @ 25 cents. 3. Maddocks, Lewis I. "The Homosexual and the Law," Social Action. Vol. 34, No. 4 (December, 1967). Council for Christian Social Action, United Church of Christ, 289 Park Avenue South, New York. (Att: Miss Elizabeth Johns) 4. Treese, Robert, Ph.D. "Toward a Theology of Homosexuality." Boston University, School of Theology. 5. Wood, Rev. Robert. Christ and the Homosexual. Vantage Press, 1960. (not in print) 6. Wood, Rev. Robert. "Homosexuality and the Church." In the December, 1964 newsletter of the Mattachine Society of New York. 7. A Brief of Injustices. Published in 1965 by C.R.H., Inc., 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California 94102. 8. Towards a Quaker View of Sex. Literature Committee of the Friends Home Service Committee. Revised Edition, 1964. London. Copies available locally from the Quakers or the National Council of Churches @ 75 cents or $1.00. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NY CRH Basic Bibliography Description An account of the resource Organization Collection Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Repository: <a href="http://www.gaycenter.org/community/archive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archive of LGBT History</a>