...Noach Dzmura Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Queer Spirituality & Politics A Progressive Religious Agenda Toward Gay Rights A Response to “Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue” by Jay Michaelson...

... of our tents. For the past thirty-seven years, we have been working to do this at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. Originally founded by a group of gay men, we have grown over the years, stretched our tent curtains wider, and are stretching wider still. The site of our tent is now a place of trans folks...

... mainstream Americans do not respond to arguments about con­ current national debate regarding equal rights for sexual minori­ stitutional rights and equality; they respond to moral arguments, ties (I will speak primarily here of gays and lesbians, though most shared values, and religion...

...William G. Sinkford Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 William G. Sinkford on Gay Marriage LEARNED OF YOUR E LECTIO N ON A L A TE-N IG H T FLIG H T TO A FR IC A . W H E N T H E PILO T ANNOU NCED THAT YOU would be the 44th president of the United States, many...

... himself to the W hite House fence. Defiant in his camouflage fatigues and black beret, his arms outstretched against the black iron barrier, he protests the mili­ tary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Images of the gay...

... ended up separating gayness from all other aspects of our identities and aligning gay rights with state rights. Schulman describes how Jasbir Puar connects LGBT assimilation to racism through her coinage of the term homo-nationalism, which refers to how (mostly white) LGBT folks in the global North who...

... since I was a kid. One woman ap­ proaches me, smiling: “Your mother tells me you just finished graduate school. So, what are you doing now?” For a moment I freeze and then stam­ Tmer something about Keshet and working for inclusion of gay Jews in the Jewish commu­ nity. I...

... and the wars they fuel. They welcome reassessments th at are m ultiracial, pro-wom an, or gay- sensitive. People of faith...

... and I am gay. For a long while I denied, rejected, railed against this truth. The life story that I had wanted—wife, kids, and a family that modeled Torah and hesed— turned out to be an impossible fantasy. I have begun to shape a new life story. This essay is part of that life story, and thus remains...

... transgender people of faith live consciously and someone of the same gender is not valid, is not holy, is not continually in the place where the twain meet. defendable. BlessedR with the capacity for our intimate relationships to tran­ The unfortunate framing of the lesbian and gay...

... solve. The book’s essays are culled from the online archives of the Against Equality collective, an anti-capitalist group that uses the “greater-than” symbol to convey its commitment to liberation for all rather than to achieving equal rights for gay men and lesbians within a fundamentally unjust...

..., forgiveness, and understanding. I’m a Southern-bred evangelical Christian pastor What I love about the “answer on back” T-shirt is that it forces and a “gay ally” (as straight advocates for the gay com­ us to confront our misunderstanding of scripture and grapple...