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Facing Hate, Finding Hope: America's LGBTQ+ Community Under Attack

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 52:20

The lives of LGBTQ+ Americans are under greater threat in 2023 than at any point in the country's recent past. This summer, the Human Rights Campaign declared a “state of emergency” for LGBTQ+ people in America. The rights of parents to make gender-confirming decisions for their children, of drag artists to perform and for venues to host drag performances, and bans on school employees from discussing gender and sexuality with students are under currently attack through proposed legislation. Simultaneously, the flames of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment are being fanned by calls for violence by far-right hate groups. Some Ohio lawmakers are also going on the offensive, recently introducing HB 245, which could charge drag performers with a felony if a juvenile is in attendance of a drag performance or the performance is considered “obscene." How can anti-LGBTQ+ legislation co-exist with U.S. constitutional rights? Could passage of a Federal Equality Act explicitly prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ+ people serve to protect lives and rights of the LGBTQ+ community? Our panelists are: Khris Goins, President and Founder, Black Transmen of Ohio J. Bennett Guess, Executive Director, ACLU of Ohio Amanda Erickson, Director of Education & Outreach, Kaleidoscope Youth Center Chris Equizi, Creator and Performer of Virginia West, and Show Director for District West Our host is Ronald Murray, Associate Director of Health Advocacy, Equitas Health This forum was sponsored by The Lynn Greer Legacy in Civic Engagement Fund, which celebrates inclusion and equity for the LGBTQ+ community, The United Way of Central Ohio, and Huckleberry House. It was supported by The Ellis. The livestream was presented by The Center for Human Kindness at The Columbus Foundation and by The Columbus Dispatch. This forum was recorded before a live audience at The Ellis in Columbus, Ohio's historic Italian Village on October 18, 2023.

Incarnational Courage with Merrick Moses

Sacramental Whine

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 32:19

Welcome to episode 113, in this episode I have the honor of interviewing Brother Merrick Moses. Brother Merrick Moses is an ordained Old Catholic Benedictine priest and monk, writer, community activist, and preacher living in Baltimore, MD. This native New Yorker is a graduate of Morgan State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a minor in Spanish language. He has completed the Education for Ministry program from the University of the South at Sewanee in Tennessee. Ordained to the order of deacons in 2004, priesthood in 2008, and professed life vows in 2021, Brother Merrick was one of the first Black Transmen ordained within the Old Catholic Movement in Baltimore, MD. He is currently serving as the board president of the Pride Center of Maryland, the third oldest Pride Center in the nation. He is the first transsexual man to serve as board president in the 45-year history of the Center. Links: Sacramental Whine: Chronicling the Independent Sacramental Movement Vol. One. Sacramental Whine: Chronicling the Independent Sacramental Movement Vol. Two. Sacramental Whine: Chronicling the Independent Sacramental Movement Vol. Three. The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community by Stephanie Spellers. The Dream of God: A Call to Return by Verna Dozier. This podcast is hosted by Bishop David Oliver Kling and produced, in part, by the Ancient Apostolic Church of Alexandria.

Building Wealth Through Ownership & Trading Digital Currency - Featuring Kortney Ziegler - Episode 30

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 84:31

On this episode of BOI Meets Wellness, Evolve Benton interviews Kortney Ziegler. Kortney Ryan Ziegler is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker, visual artist, blogger, writer, and scholar based in Oakland, California. His artistic and academic work focuses on queer/trans issues, body image, racialized sexualities, gender, performance and black queer theory. He is the creator of the blog blac (k) ademic, and the film STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen. In 2017, Ziegler and Tiffany Mikell co-founded Appolition.us in order to help incarcerated Black people return to their families by allowing users to round up purchases to the nearest dollar and donate the funds to bail funding efforts. The app was supported through crowdfunding after a tweet from Ziegler got attention in July 2017. Today you can find Kortney trading bitcoin, lifting weights and sharing his thoughts on twitter. He is currently crowdfunding $100,000 for Black Trans Elders. Please support his mission. In this episode you'll discover : The key to trading bitcoin How to tap into your abundance How to empower and love black transmen How to support Appolition.us Donate to support the lives of our Black Trans Elders Check out Kourtney Ziegler's new trading venture Green Kandle Academy Wellness Resource of the Week Check out the The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Listen to more episodes of BOI Meets Wellness at boimeetswellness.com Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/boimeetswellness/ Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BOIMEETSWELLNESS/ Check out our new merch store BOI Gear Store

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Episode 6: King Krypto

RZNWA Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 118:07

Friend of the pod and polymath Dr. Kortney Ziegler (fakerapper) drops by to talk about cryptocurrency, his experience working in the intersection between tech and prison abolition, his film STILL BLACK: a Portrait of Black Transmen, the erasure and speaking over of Black trans male identity, and why Jamel will get washed 10 times out of 10 in a fight with a mountain gorilla.

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Pride Month Celebration - Grand Marshal Pastor Casey and Trans Pastor & Author Rev. Lawrence T. Richardson - 144

Irenicast - A Progressive Christian Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2019 63:35

If you didn’t get out to your local LGBTQ Pride festivities -- no worries -- this episode is a Pride month celebration. Our own Pastor Casey Tinnin was elected the Grand Marshal of the Sacramento, California Pride Parade. What do you wear when you’re the Grand Marshal of a Pride parade? In the first half of this celebration, Casey recounts his experience, internally and externally, of representing and serving his community in Sacramento Pride. In part two of this episode, Casey sits down with author and pastor, Rev. Lawrence T. Richardson. Rev. Lawrence T. Richardson is an African-American trans man who wears many hats. He is Pastor at Linden Hills United Church of Christ, media trainer with Auburn Seminary, leadership coach with The Center for Progressive Renewal, and a writer for The Salt Collective. He recently wrote the book, I Know What Heaven Looks Like: A Modern Day Coming of Age Story. In addition to his new book, Rev. Richardson writes about and advocates for LGBTQ people, people of color and the flourishing of all. His works have appeared in Huffington Post Religion, The Root, Believe Out Loud, The Salt Collective, Rachel Murr’s Unnatural: Spiritual Resiliency in Queer Christian Women, Austen Hartke’s Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians, and numerous other national and international publications. He has also received awards and commendations for his service from Black Transmen, Inc. and the Stellar Awards for his work in global communication. You will not want to miss this conversation between two men who, through struggle, have found their callings into ministry. The conversation, like Pastor Casey and Rev. Lawrence, is authentic, real, vulnerable and full of testimony to the power of finding Love in God and in people who know how to Love freely and abundantly. Pride Month Celebration Part One w/ Pastor Casey (01:23) Pride Month Celebration Part Two w/ Rev. Lawrence T. Richardson (18:03) PASTOR CASEY’S SPEECH FROM SACRAMENTO PRIDE My name is Pastor Casey Tinnin, I am the Pastor of Loomis United Church of Christ. I am the founder of The Landing Spot a non religious support group for LGBTQIA+ teens and their adult caregivers, the Co-Founder of Intersections a recovery group for ex fundamentalists and ex evangelicals, and a co-host on the podcast Irenicast. I want to say thank you to the four thousand people who voted for me. It is my deepest honor to be one of your grand marshals. It recently has been said that the only way forward is for “everyone to be accepted.” This is true, however true love and acceptance comes with a deep since of humility and truth telling. Acceptance is not created by back door deals and forced participation. Love and acceptance comes when we are willing to tell the truth of our own lives and to take account of our own actions and how our actions are perceived. Today, I am aware that as a gay cist gendered Pastor and for many in the LGBTQ+ community seeing a pastor stand before them is triggering. And so this morning I want to say I am sorry on behalf of God and Christianity for the violence that has been inflected upon you. For the ways spoken and unspoken that the message of Christianity has been coopted and used to harm each of us. Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, body shaming…. I am sorry… I am also aware of how cis gendered gay men and lesbians have fallen short in their support for the transgendered community. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and it is on the shoulders of those trans women who lead the fight at stone wall that we have any rights at all. But fifty years later it is still trans people, and trans people of color who are still the victims of abuse, hate, murder, infection, suicide, and homelessness. And apart of your suffering is because as cis gendered gay and lesbian people we have been complicit, and for that I am sorry. Beloved family, the only way forward is together. There is a new wind blowing through this place, and my prayer is that it stirs among us and through our capital, and throughout the nation. We are in trying times, but we can not combat hate with hate, it is only love that can see us forward. Every week I see the boldness and courage of young LGBT teens in the work that I do that are looking for love and acceptance, and it is our job together to make the world a more safe and loving world for them. And in creating that world it will require us to take bold action, like we have seen the Pride Center Staff do. So thank you Pride Center staff… not just for standing up and living boldly this week but every day that you show up for the most vulnerable among us. You have stood with us, and we will stand with you. A powerful wind of change is blowing among us, may we be committed to rolling with it together and continuing to build the arc of justice together. Because the only way we truly rise, is together. RELEVANT LINKS From Pride Month Celebration Part 1 - Grand Marshal Casey Video of Casey Speaking at Pride (posted by his church, Loomis Basin UCC) The Gay Pastor Fighting for LGBTQ Lessons at a Calif. School District (Advocate Article on Pastor Casey) Who will lead the Sacramento Pride parade? A pastor, an activist and Ms. Sacramento Leather (Sacramento Bee Article on Pride) Tinnin Up for Gay Pride Honor (Article from Pastor Casey’s Hometown Paper) The Landing Spot Ru Paul’s Drag Race (TV Show) Memoir of a Gay Pastor – Closets and Calling – 131 (Irenicast episode where Pastor Casey tells his story) Plans To Protest Sacramento Pride Parade (Video) Rajeev’s “Straight Pride” Facebook Post Stonewall Riots (Wiki) GLAAD calls for increased and accurate media coverage of transgender murders The Enneagram and Progressive Christianity – Two Two’s and A Four Walk Into A Bar – 127 (Irenicast Episode) From Pride Month Celebration Part 2 - Interview with Lawrence T. Richardson Linden Hills United Church of Christ (Rev. Richardson’s Congregation) Auburn Seminary The Center for Progressive Renewal The Salt Collective I Know What Heaven Looks Like: A Modern Day Coming of Age Story by Lawrence Tanner Richardson (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) Our Whole Lives aka OWL (comprehensive sexuality curriculum) The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) All-male historically black Morehouse College will admit transgender men (article) THANK YOU A special thank you to Lawrence T. Richardson for joining us this week. For all things Lawrence T. Richardson visit his website at www.ltrichardson.com. Also follow him on Facebook and Twitter. YOUR SUPPORT Thank you for listening to Irenicast. If you appreciate the show please consider sharing your appreciation by rating, reviewing and/or subscribing to the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or whatever platform you’re listening on. You can also help support the show financially by going to irenicast.com/amazon to do your Amazon shopping. This will cost you nothing, but Amazon will give a portion of the proceeds to the show. IRENCAST HOSTS Rev. Allen O’Brien, MAT | co-founder & co-host | allen@irenicast.com Allen is a venerator of emotionality. He thrives on education, peace, and interconnectedness— passions which permeate his work as pastor, writer, lover of all the things, and occasional vegan. You can connect with Allen (@RevAllenOB) on Facebook,Twitter, Instagram, GoodReads, & LinkedIn. Rev. Bonnie Rambob, MDiv | co-host | bonnie@irenicast.com As a pastor, activist, educator, mom, and possibility artist, Bonnie invites people into newness. She loves climbing trees, knitting and hiking while conversing with friends about smashing the patriarchy. You can connect with Bonnie on Facebook and at Parkside Community Church-UCC Pastor Casey Tinnin, MTS | co-host | casey@irenicast.com Preacher, protester, everybody’s pastor. Casey geeks out on comic books, talking theology, politics, and sex. He’s most free when he is dancing, cooking with his partner Jose, or walking their dog Kole. You can follow Casey on Twitter and Facebook, or you can check out his blog The Queerly Faithful Pastor or loomisucc.org Jeff Manildi | co-founder, producer & co-host | jeff@irenicast.com Chaser of tales and climax initiator, Jeff rises to the occasion, edging to a satisfying completion. Get your mind out of the gutter, we’re talking story, not sex. Jeff expresses his creativity by curating diverse ideas, energies and people. Follow Jeff (@JeffManildi) on facebook, instagram & twitter. You can also listen to Jeff’s other podcast Divine Cinema. Rev. 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