Sentences with phrase «lesbian communities in»

In organizing the gay and lesbian community in support of the group's political and legislative agenda, Patton traveled around the state extensively.

In some countries like UK, Australia many women are known lesbians (10 out of hundred 100) and becoming to lesbian community in our society.

The Real L Word, Season 2: Cori discusses her relationship with Kacy, describes the lesbian community in L.A., and trying to have a baby.

As therapists, we understand the unique issues that impact the gay and lesbian community in Chicago.

Not exact matches

They took into account how many new members of the LGBT community moved into each city in 2015, as well as how many «winks» were sent between gay and lesbian matches.

Though he chose the name Pride in part because it connotes the gay and lesbian community, Farley says, «we don't market solely to them,» and his efforts to target that community are no different from any other group marketing at Pride.

Shed Boren and Jose Valdes - Fauli, a longtime South Florida couple well - known for their philanthropy and activism in both the mainstream and LGBTQ communities, will be honored Feb. 11 at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables by SAGE, a national organization that provides «services and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elders.»

Steve Rothaus brings you the latest in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

This is an example where interpretation can be very dangerous and people allow themselves to be brain washed and follow evil in the name of religious idiology, next people like this will be blaming the woes on our country on the gay / lesbian community, Hitler and Germany come to mind.

The lesbians in my dream represent, for me, all those who must continually struggle within community because they are different.

At the end of the day, the Elderly, the Middle Class, the Poor, the Hispanics, the Latinos, and the Gay and Lesbian Community understand one thing very clearly, the Republicans are interested in regaining power in Washington, and they will walk over anyone who gets in their way.

I really struggle with concerns that participating in a church community that restricts the roles of women in leadership, or that actively campaigns against the civil rights of gays and lesbians, makes me complicit in those activities.

I also hear STDs are less prominent in the lesbian community.

In our community, we're trying to do both — to support singles and married couples, to support gay and lesbian folks too, so that they find a community where they feel loved.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioIn fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

The Christian community now possesses for the first time some excellent scholarly works on the treatment of homosexuality in Scripture, such as Robin Scroggs's The New Testament and Homosexuality (Fortress, 1984) and George Edwards's Gay / Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical Perspective (Pilgrim, 1984).

In The Church and the Homosexual I sought to overturn three traditional stances taken by the Christian community regarding lesbian and homosexual relationships.

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

I argued that the love between two lesbians or two homosexuals, assuming that it is a constructive human love, is not sinful nor does it alienate the lovers from God's plan, but can be a holy love, mediating God's presence in the human community as effectively as heterosexual love.

The idea that individual identity should be subordinated to communal identity is viewed as intolerably oppressive — except, it seems, in the case of the «loving gay and lesbian support community.»

Lesbian communities, because of their marginal status, are removed from patriarchy and may act as pioneers in the dis - covering of female friendship.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

Gays and lesbians live in your community, paying taxes, supporting schools, falling in love and forming families - just like heteros.exuals.

While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.

I debated whether to engage a post that is just as disturbing as the title suggests, but after speaking with an editor and several writers at The Gospel Coalition, as well as some of my gay and lesbian friends, I've decided it's important to offer an alternative to the attitude presented in this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore / discuss how Christians ought to respond when we encounter homophobia in our own faith communities.

So rather than talk about gender roles, gay and lesbian issues, etc., we decided to talk about what we saw as the basic concern in all of this - belonging, i.e., can I belong in a community and have my identity and sexuality supported and upheld?

If Vatican documents included some mention of these «problems» in future discussions of homosexuality, they would be guaranteed a fairer and more respectful hearing than such pronouncements presently receive from the secular homosexual community and increasingly from the gay and lesbian Catholic community as well.

For example, most Christians I know agree that gays and lesbians have been horribly mistreated by the religious community, and that it's time for a change in attitude and approach.

It is interesting to think how this has happened in view of the fact that there are articulate intellectuals in both the gay and lesbian communities who have published views similar to Greenberg's.

Dean Jones says that «many gay and lesbian people and their friends are active and valued members of the Duke community and important participants in the life of Duke Chapel.

The Mormon group that marched in Salt Lake City was organized by Mormons Building Bridges, a group of lay Mormons who want to show support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community.

Brent Childers, an evangelical Christian, said he once used religious tenets to support prejudice toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, but «I realized those attitudes were not in keeping with my religious values by causing harm using religious teaching.»

A lot of things happened in that service that would make some of the leaders in my evangelical religious community very angry: a woman serving the bread and the wine, a lesbian couple partaking of the elements with their baby daughter in tow, a gay man embracing me in a big bear hug and telling me that it was the first time in twenty years he felt worthy to come to the Table.

If I'm wrong about this, Rauch should be able to produce earlier statements in which hundreds of self - identified «lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including notable scholars at top academic institutions and leaders of respected organizations, endorsed sexual arrangements involving three or more conjugal partners.

He left all that behind in August 1986 to attend Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCC - SF), a predominantly white church in a denomination that ministers to the lesbian and gay cCommunity Church of San Francisco (MCC - SF), a predominantly white church in a denomination that ministers to the lesbian and gay communitycommunity.

When the topic of lesbians ministering to men with AIDS came up during a reception the women of our church held for Karen Ziegler, pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in New York, Ziegler responded this way: «I don't feel like I'm sacrificing — I receive energy by ministering to men with AIDS.»

MCC - SF also strives to educate people outside the gay and lesbian community about AIDS, through letter - writing campaigns, public presentations and workshops on AIDS, which have been given in a variety of settings, including the San Francisco AIDS Interfaith Conference, the United Methodist Consultation on AIDS Ministries, the Presbyterian Ministers Association, and Pacific School of Religion's AIDS Awareness Week.

The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC) was founded in Los Angeles in 1968 by Troy Perry, a former Pentecostal minister who aimed to spread the new gospel that God loves gays and lesbians.

Wisconsin • Lesbian Parents Network, PO Box 8423, Madison, WI 53708 - 8423, 608-233-0102 • Wisconsin Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf, located at the GLBT Center in Milwaukee Wisconsin, www.wiscrad.org • LGBT Community Center of The Chippewa Valley 1305 Woodland Avenue Eau Claire, WI 54701 http://www.cvlgbt.org Contact Information General Email: [email protected] Public Contact: Jessica Janiuk, President, Board of Directors Senior Leader: Ann Hoeppner, Treasurer Phone Numbers Main: 715-406-4028 Fax: [phone]

• COLAGE: Greater Boston Chapter PO Box 441942 Somerville, MA 02144 Phone: [phone] x 446 • Greater Boston PFLAG PO Box 440004 West Somerville, MA 02144 - 0001 Phone: [phone] • You're Not Alone - Straight Spouse Support Newton - Wellesley Hospital, MA Phone: [phone] • Boston Center for Lesbians and Gay Men 80 Chandler St Boston, MA 02116 Phone: [phone] • GLBT Community Center of Western Massachusetts PO Box 60601 Florence, MA 01062 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] • Lesbian / Gay Family and Parenting Services Fenway Community Health Center 7 Haviland St. Boston, MA 02115 Phone: [phone] • Mass Equality 11 Beacon Street, Suite 1125 Boston, MA 02108 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.massequality.org / • Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus PO Box 246 Boston, MA 02133 Phone: [phone] Website: www.mglpc.org / • Pride Zone 2 Maple Avenue # 34 Northampton, MA 01060 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] Michigan • The Post Adoption Resource Center at Judson Center provides a support group every second Thursday of each month at our Washtenaw office in Ann Arbor.

MASSACHUSETTS - * also a boarding school The Montessori School of Northampton 51 Bates St., Northampton, MA 01060 413-586-4538 www.northamptonmontessori.com Preschool - 6th grade Founded in 1976, the Montessori School of Northampton is located in the highly - populated - with - lesbians community of Northampton.

Living in a rural upstate NY community... who would have thought such a magazine existed... let alone another interracial lesbian couple with children!

• We 2 Have Parental Rights 132 Kentucky Blue Circle Apopka, FL 32712 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.we2haveparentalrights.com Georgia • COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) Greater Atlanta: Support and Community for kids 8 + with one and / or more LGBT parent in the greater Atlanta area.

Another surprising thing «S» told me was that, as a lesbian, she has been unable to speak openly about it in the LGBT community.

We work closely with the LGBT Community Center in New York, Family Equality Council, Resolve New England, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), and Parent via Egg Donation (PVED).

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

Horne also offended Norway's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community after the re-emergence of a tweet that she sent in 2010 about a children's book that included gay characters: «I wonder if it's okay that kindergartens are reading gay adventures for young children?»

Her training included positions at the Los Angles Lesbian and Gay Center, The Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center, Amanecer Community Counseling Center and currently as a Senior Staff Therapist and Director of Education & Outreach for Creative Insights Counseling, a two location, private practice in the Inland Empire.

In 2008, OA&FS was recognized by the Pride Foundation for strengthening and serving the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.