Animal blessing prayer: We pray for the animals
Animal blessings are happening all over the world in October for the feast of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. He was an animal-loving queer saint who talked with birds, befriended wolves and called all animals “brother” and “sister.” The following...
Carl Bean: Black LGBTQ church founder who sang “I Was Born This Way”
Carl Bean was founding archbishop of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement in the black LGBTQ community, early AIDS activist and Motown singer of the 1977 gay-liberation anthem “I Was Born This Way.” He died Sept. 7, 2021 at age 77 after a long illness. Bean (May 26,...
Rumi: Poet and Sufi mystic inspired by same-sex love
Rumi is a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose love for another man inspired some of the world’s best poems and led to the creation of a new religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. He was born Sept. 30, 1207 in Afghanistan. With sensuous beauty and deep...
FannyAnn Eddy: Lesbian martyr in Africa
FannyAnn Eddy was a major activist for LGBTQ rights in her native Sierra Leone and the rest of Africa. She was murdered on Sept. 29, 2004. Nobody was ever convicted of the crime. She founded the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association in 2002 and advocated for LGBTQ...
Good (Gay?) King Wenceslas loved his page Podiven
There’s good reason to believe that Good King Wenceslas was gay. Yes, the king in the Christmas carol. His feast day is Sept. 28. Saint Wenceslaus I (907–935) was duke of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). The carol “Good King Wenceslas” is based on a...
Euphrosyne / Smaragdus of Alexandria: Queer saint crossed gender divide in 5th-century Egypt
Euphrosyne / Smaragdus (Emerald) of Alexandria is a 5th-century saint who left life as a woman to become a monk in an Egyptian monastery. Raised as the daughter of a wealthy couple, the future saint ran away from home at age 18 to avoid heterosexual marriage....
Virginia Mollenkott: Trailblazing queer theologian and feminist Bible scholar
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott was a trailblazing feminist Bible scholar and queer theologian whose 13 books liberated countless LGBTQ lives. She died peacefully in her home in New Jersey on Sept. 25, 2020, at age 88. Mollenkott shook the religious world with her...
Tyler Clementi: Gay teen driven to suicide by bullies
Tyler Clementi (1992-2010) brought international attention to bullying-related suicide of LGBTQ youth by jumping to his death on Sept. 22, 2010. Clementi’s highly publicized tragedy made him into a gay martyr whose untimely death put a public face on the problems of...
John McNeill: Pioneering gay priest who inspired LGBTQ people of faith
John McNeill was a pioneering gay priest, psychotherapist, author, theologian and Jesuit scholar who inspired countless LGBTQ people of faith and their allies. He died on Sept. 22, 2015 in a hospice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his partner of 49 years, Charles...
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