Mary Oliver: Lesbian poet, mystic of nature
Lesbian poet Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, is a mystic of nature who became an LGBTQ saint by popular acclaim. She died on Jan. 17, 2019, at age 83. Her poetry expresses intimacy with nature and compassion for humanity, using...
Jeanne Cordova: Lesbian nun who “kicked the habit” to become an activist
Jeanne Cordova was a pioneering lesbian feminist activist and ex-nun who shook the world by revealing lesbian life in the convent. She died on Jan. 10, 2016 at age 67. Cordova told her story as contributor to the groundbreaking 1985 book “Lesbian Nuns: Breaking...
Jeanne Manford: PFLAG founder who loved her gay son
Jeanne Manford loved her gay son so much that she founded PFLAG, the first and now the largest organization for LGBTQ people and their parents, families, and allies. She died on Jan. 8, 2013 at age 92. Her son, the late Morty Manford, was beaten during a gay rights...
Adele Starr and others: Patron saints for straight allies of LGBTQ people
After her son came out in 1974, Adele Starr helped launch the group that became PFLAG, formerly known as Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. She overcame her negative perceptions about homosexuality to become an unflagging champion for LGBTQ rights...
Freda Smith: LGBTQ activist, first woman ordained by Metropolitan Community Churches
Freda Smith was a pioneering lesbian pastor, LGBTQ activist and the first woman ordained in Metropolitan Community Churches. She died on Dec. 3, 2019, at age 84 after suffering a stroke. She was known for her memorable sermons and speeches advocating for and...
Louie Crew Clay: LGBTQ church activist, founder of Integrity, Rutgers professor
Louie Crew Clay was a longtime LGBTQ church activist who founded of the Episcopal LGBTQ group Integrity in 1974. He died on Nov. 27, 2019 at age 82, peacefully at a hospital in Newark, New Jersey, with his husband by his side, a few days after suffering a stroke. As...
Richard Sibbes: Queer Puritan theologian for the LGBTQ community?
Richard Sibbes was a 17th-century English Puritan who never married, nurtured close male friendships, wore extravagantly lacy clothing and preached a rather queer theology. Puritans have a (somewhat undeserved) reputation for being distinctly puritanical, but Sibbes...
List of top 12 progressive Christians includes Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry
Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry is included on a new list of the top 12 progressive Christians compiled by Sunshine Cathedral, which bills itself as “the world’s largest progressive queer church.” “When I say or hear ‘Christian,’ I don’t think of nationalists...
Transgender women asylum seekers: Detention led to death for Roxsana Hernandez and Johana Medina
Transgender women asylum seekers from Central America show the injustice faced by LGBTQ people trying to immigrate. LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers from Ukraine and other parts of the world face hardships too. On the anniversaries of their deaths, transgender women...Send an anniversary gift in May
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