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Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…GBT couples. On the eve of the parade, Taiwan’s Justice Minister, Chin Tai-san, gave marchers fresh hope by pledging that the new government, elected earlier this year, had a clear position on same-sex marriage and backed equality. President Tsai Ing-wen also reportedly reaffirmed her support for marriage equality on Saturday. Legislation to revise the civil code to include marriage equality has been submitted with the support of 40 lawmakers, rep…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n hit with budget and staff cuts, has the wherewithal to carry out a successful postal ballot. There is disagreement among LGBT activists about whether to wage a campaign for a “yes” vote or boycott the vote so as not to grant it legitimacy. Because the government’s efforts to win Senate approval for an actual plebiscite have failed repeatedly, the government has decided to “circumvent the Senate” and have the statistical bureau handle the volunta…

In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

By Peter Laarman

…community was the interracial Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, which he left a comfortable position at Howard University to co-found in 1944. Civil rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer, who had no formal education other than Bible study beyond the sixth grade, might at first glance seem to be something of a bad fit with the other figures in Raboteau’s book. But Raboteau makes a convincing case that Hamer, who mightily irritated…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ties to Honduras’ Roman Catholic and evangelical churches, in the city of San Pedro Sula, was strangled to death last June. Cattrachas, a Tegucigalpa-based lesbian feminist network, notes 229 LGBT Hondurans are known to have been killed between 2009-2016. New Zealand: Plans to offer reversal of convictions for old sodomy law violations The government is planning to create a process allowing men convicted under a pre-1986 law against same-sex acti…

Trump Considers Pulling USA Out Of Human Rights Council; Indonesian President Blames Democracy For Rise of Militant Islamism; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ual content” at the popular Sziget youth festival; the ban was later successfully challenged in court. In 2011 he revoked support from the Eurogames LGBTQ sport event offered by his predecessor. In 2015 he called the Budapest Pride March “unnatural and disgusting”. The March was first held in Budapest 20 years ago in 1997, and last year it drew over 20 thousand participants. In May, Budapest will host this year’s World Congress of Families gatheri…

“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…d other “reparative therapy” practitioners used. As a fact witness for the San Francisco City Attorney’s office, Kendall’s 2010 testimony in the case known as Hollingsworth v. Perry was so pivotal that (now-retired) U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker cited Kendall’s story as proof that sexual orientation is immutable in his landmark decision. That ruling, which overturned the California proposition that revoked marriage equality in that state, was…

Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…invites a disarming of one another.” That experience was powerful and transformative, she said. She still proudly displays a plaque naming her a “Hero of the Tenderloin” in her district office just south of Denver, Colorado, where she and I sat down to discuss the future of LGBTQ equality in the United Methodist Church on Friday. (Watch the full interview in the Facebook Live video below.) Although she had encountered broadly welcoming UMC commun…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…aff had a Cinderella moment, all taking turns trying them on. When Velasco-Sanchez tried them on, they fit perfectly. The moment meant everything to Velasco-Sanchez. “It was being invited into that very feminine, sisterly circle. You belong here. Of course you should try these on.” To Velasco-Sanchez her time in Standing Rock strengthened both her Christian faith and her tie to sacred Native traditions. When people question her ability to reconcil…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…or the removal of Confederate monuments took place Sunday in Baltimore and San Antonio, calling these memorials to white supremacism for what they were—and what the “Unite the Right” crowds reveled in their being. Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…uthern Baptist Convention, recently uncovered by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture—not just churches in other evangelical denominations, but also educational institutions, parachurch ministries, parallel information and entertainment industries, and political lobbying organizations. As I have argued at RD and elsewher…