LGBT Stories

Colorado’s Got a Gay Governor. Who Cares? : > ….Annise Parker, the chief executive of LGBTQ Victory Fund, which > supports L.G.B.T. candidates and endorsed Mr. Polis, stum...

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During The AIDS Crisis, This Gay Jewish Cookbook Kept A Community Together : > But the cookbook was Susan Unger’s brainchild. “I was a young > adult living in San Francisco�...

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“My rabbi asked me to take him to a place where I felt a particular attachment or a visceral memory. I brought him to a stack in the back-left corner of the basement of my school’s library �...

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Rediscovering the Pioneering Work of Jewish Gay Activist Leo Skir : > Skir recalls meeting a friend of his, a former yeshiva student from > the Lubavitcher Hasidic community, w...

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realisticturbulence : > When goyim ask if ur Christian Four more nights til HANUKKAH!

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Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Hanukkah : It’s almost Hanukkah time! Autostraddle has put together some lovely suggestions on how to celebrate and feel included this year.  ...

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I had a lot of troubles finding my sexuality (super gay btw the gayest but you know, social pressured to be at least a little straight and whatnot) but I’ve ALWAYS loved being Jewish my whole l...

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imightbeadreamer : > As a Jewish queer, I obviously have a lot of feelings about what > happened in Chicago. The only thing I will say is that I don’t > know where...

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lgbt-history-archive : > “QUARTER MILLION HOMOSEXUAL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES PROTEST CIVIL > SERVICE COMMISSION POLICY,” members of the East Coast Homophile > Organizations (ECH...

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gay lesbian bi pan trans genderqueer nonbinary asexual laughlikesomethingbroken : > ayellowbirds > : >  >  >>  queerenbian >>  : >>   >>   >>>   witchofeindor >>>...

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More than 1,500 at Dyke March in Little Village, Jewish Pride flags banned (UPDATED June 25) - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive - Windy City Times : > …However, the Dyke March Collectiv...

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Marc Blitzstein 1941 Courtesy of the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music “Music must have a social as well as an artistic base; it should broaden its scope and reach not only the select few bu...

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Happy Pride Jack!

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I must admit to a slight obsession with culinary historian Michael W. Twitty (“…’kosher soul-rolls’— spring rolls stuffed with collared greens and pastrami — and Senegalese chicken so...

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On May 18th host or attend a multi-generational #SAGEtable event “share food and experiences…create connections among generations.” Are you going to host or attend a #SAGEtable meal? Who...

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In 2000 I was elected as an out lesbian president of a Conservative synagogue. Discussions on the Presidents’ listserv at the time led me to believe that I was the first out LGBTQ president of ...

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Queery: Rabbi Denise Eger : QUEERY: RABBI DENISE EGER > While studying to become a rabbi during the 1980s in New York City, > Denise Eger started a group for gay and le...

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So, I was raised in a lesbian household. My birth mom is Jewish, my other mom is Catholic. I grew up Jewish and we attended a very lesbian congregation. Our rabbi is a lesbian herself. When I was...

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The lives behind the headstones : To read more entries from our newest collecting project, click here. By Paul P. Murphy , CNN Video by Sonia Moghe, CNN  > Philadelphia (CNN), March ...

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This is not what we usually post about, and I hope you will read and share: IN RESPONSE TO THE RECENT DESECRATION AT MOUNT CARMEL CEMETERY IN PHILADELPHIA OF MORE THAN 500 HEADSTONES, THE NATIO...

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