[I was going to post last night, but then I got talking to people and opted to go to bed rather than finish this post ( Read more... )

So, a couple weeks ago I was helping my best friend revise a liturgy for a "Service of Healing and Hope (on the occasion of National Coming Out Day)," and I looked up the lectionary readings for that (this) Sunday.

Job 23
Psalm 22
Hebrews 4:12-16

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I've self-identified as queer/bisexual for almost 8 years now. Wow.

I mean, in some ways it feels like a "duh, always" kind of a thing -- 'cause hi, that was my senior year of college high school, so it was like the start of my "adult life ( Read more... )

October is GLBT history month. Explanation from the website:Thirty-one GLBT leaders were selected, one for each day of the month. Equality Forum solicited state, national and international leaders for nominations. The nominees comprised individuals, living or dead, who have distinguished themselves within their field of endeavor, as national ( Read more... )

I tend to think that in LJ this would be redundant (for me), but apparently it isn't quite as obvious as I thought.

Admittedly, queering everything does not necessarily mean one is queer oneself.  (And it would be more accurate to say I sexualize everything, though there's definitely a queer bent to it.)  I very explicitly come out as queer in my ( Read more... )

The short version: Went home to the Boston area, slept a lot, saw lots of people, enjoyed myself, did almost no work though i did very well on the GRE. Returned to Smith and have continued to do almost no work.

The long version: ( Read more... )

"For the past few years I have just considered myself queer. To me, queer merely means I don't fit into the dominant heterosexual paradigm. It means I can be attracted to girls, boys, both, or no one. It's a large, fluid category that goes beyond hetero/homo/bi/asexual."
-from "The Mixed-Race Queer Girl Manifesto" by Lauren Martin in Quantify # ( Read more... )