Bisexuality: Making the Invisible Visible by Marie Alford-Harkey

This guidebook was designed to help congregations comprehend bisexuality and also to encourage faith communities to “make the hidden visible.” Spiritual leaders and congregations may use this guidebook to motivate theological expression and action inside their faith communities. Bisexuality is frequently hidden in lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) companies, culture in general, and in faith communities and denominations. The“B” in the LGBT acronym is still largely ignored although many mainline denominations and congregations have made great strides in welcoming and affirming lesbian and gay people, and some have even begun to respond to the specific needs and concerns of transgender people. Helping faith communities embrace bisexual individuals and reflect theologically on bisexuality brings gift ideas to congregations and also to the training of faith. Whenever a congregation greets and recognizes folks of all intimate orientations and sex identities, it plays a part in an image that is positive of among individuals who could have refused religion as intolerant or unimportant. Such congregations become safe spaces for youth that are checking out their sex and have now questions. In addition, adopting bisexual people allows those people to most probably about their identification helping produce an even more atmosphere that is open the faith community, motivating authenticity and community among people.Continue reading→

Soon after using office this past year, Brown finalized into legislation a bill that made Oregon the next state into the U.S. to ban making use of alleged transformation treatment on minors. The discredited training aims to alter a new man or woman’s intimate orientation or sex identification through guidance, prayer, and aversion treatment, and has now been denounced as inadequate and harmful by every major medical and psychological state company in the usa.

The singer that is 21-year-old songwriter (and 2015 Advocate 40 Under 40 honoree) has always infused her identity into her music, sneaking in a mention of wedding equality in last summer’s anthemic hit “New Americana.” However in a 2012 tweet that produced million girls’ hearts flutter, the musician laid her identity that is whole on dining table.

“I’m a mixed-race, bisexual girl in a white male-dominated industry and I also have a moral duty,” she tweeted.

Like lots of the ladies with this list, Halsey has already established to guard her identification recently, after having a BuzzFeed article questioned whether she was toning straight down her out-and-proud techniques to navigate main-stream success.Continue reading→