Religions and LGBT youth: A lost generation? | ReligionLink

Keshet is a Boston-based nonprofit that works for the full inclusion of GLBT Jews. It produced the documentary Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School and a companion curriculum and operates a “Safe Schools & Supportive Communities” program that targets young people. ... CENTERS. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., supports LGBT seminarians and the schools and churches that hire them. ...

Nehirim | Queer Shabbaton 2007

A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, he also completed a yearlong, intensive weekly internship at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in NYC, the world's largest gay and lesbian synagogue. While studying in Israel in 1999, he led regular Torah study ... Drinkwater has served as a volunteer, board member or advisor to a wide range of Jewish, LGBT, and social justice organizations, including Limmud Colorado, and the World Congress of GLBT Jews. Shawn Shafner ...

Mining Gay American Autobiography

of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Americans, has moved forward with plans for a massive national day of action on Sunday, October. 11, 2009. Major national LGBT organizations including the Gay Lesbian Alliance Against ...... puswide workshops in GLBT-awareness training. QUOTE UNQUOTE BY REX WOCKNER WITH BILL KELLEY. “It was scary (becoming a gay spokesperson after I came out) because I really wasn't up on my politics. I was kind of there, ...

BlueOregon: Gay marriage: Oregon should be next

After seeing gay couples married in Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Iowa, and Vermont (and any other states that might approve marriage equality in the next year), it's no longer some weird, radical thing. The ongoing national conversation ...... We'll just need to agree that there's a diversity of views in the LGBT community on the value of religion, spirituality, compassion, and mutual respect despite differences, and otherwise disagree. Posted by: Dave | Apr 9 , ...

Nehirim | Queer Shabbaton New York 2009

Vanessa “Vinny” Prell has dedicated one quarter of his life (and counting) to anti-oppression work, and continues these efforts as the Executive Director of the National Union of Jewish Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex .... in collaboration with the World Congress of GLBT Jews. He has served as a volunteer, board member or advisor to a wide range of Jewish and LGBT organizations and is currently the president of Limmud Colorado. ...