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🎬 Videos(10)

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Girl v Church: The Documentary

Gabrielle Lee

A queer Latina woman faces her past of religious abuse in the Church and sticks up for her friends.

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RfRx - Conversion Therapy with Bill Prickett

Recovering from Religion

Aired: 03/20/2021 *Trigger Warning - talk of suicide This discussion explores the religious community's attempt to "fix" and change sexual orientations other than heterosexual, now known as Conversion Therapy, previously known as "ex-gay" treatments.

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Robert Sapolsky: Brain Gender

Liquid Bio TV

We have heard a great deal about gender being a spectrum, here Robert Sapolksy talks about the brain being on that same gender spectrum!

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RfRx - Supporting the Queer Community with Ryan K.

Recovering from Religion

Recent events in the United States have represented a painful reminder of the ongoing threat of violence against members of the queer community, regardless of their religious affiliation. This week on RfRx, Ryan K. will be joining us to share his story as a queer person in and outside of religious communities, offer resources for finding support, honor some of the latest victims and survivors of violence against the LGBTQ+ community, and answer questions from the audience.

📄 Articles(23)

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Boy Erased

Focus Features

Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents (Kidman and Crowe). His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader (Edgerton) and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self.

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Latter Day Lesbian

Latter Day Lesbian

An ex-Mormon gay girl trying to figure out life

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LGBT Humanists

Humanists UK

For over 40 years LGBT Humanists has promoted humanism as a rational, naturalistic worldview that trusts the scientific method as the most reliable route to truth and encourages a moral and ethical life based on logic, reason and compassion. We campaign for equality and diversity, particularly relating to sexual orientation and identity [...]

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In the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy, Counselors Offer Healing Support

Northwestern

"Alcorn's parents believed their "sick" child could be forcibly turned back into a boy and "cured" of her attraction to males." "We know that sexual orientation can be fluid. But it's the coercion to change that is the harmful nature of it. The basic communication is that there is something wrong with you if you are same-sex attracted." "the authors note that there is "no scientific evidence published in psychological peer-reviewed journals that conversion therapy is effective"" "Conversion therapy thwarts self-acceptance, causing depression, anxiety, shame, self-hatred, social withdrawal and, like Alcorn, thoughts of suicide." "Especially for kids, there is a sense of failure in not being able to change that can cause a loss of community and disconnect from family." "You're taking a non-pathological entity and applying a non-evidence-based intervention without considering the harm you're doing along the way." "some mental health professionals aligned with conservative religious groups continue attempting to convert gay and transgender people" "the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law projects 77,000 LGBT youth will undergo conversion attempts before they become adults" "Professionals who engage in the practice often espouse "reparative therapy" and attempt to distinguish it from conversion therapy." "My role with them is not to try to convince them to be anything, but to help them uncover and discover who they are" "Dr. Whitman said it is important to explore their dreams and aspirations and to show them their spiritual and sexual identities can exist together in a healthy, functioning way." "family members and parents may also benefit from connecting with other parents and families who have come from a greater place of affirmation" "the mental health community, overall, has evolved and continues to evolve"

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Queering the Map

Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. The platform provides an interface to collaboratively record the cartography of queer life--from park benches to the middle of the ocean--in order to preserve our histories and unfolding realities, which continue to be invalidated, contested, and erased. From collective action to stories of coming out, encounters with violence to moments of rapturous love, Queering the Map functions as a living archive of queer life. If it counts to you, then it counts for Queering the Map. Through mapping LGBTQ2IA+ experience in its intersectional permutations, the project works to generate affinities across difference and beyond borders--revealing the ways in which we are intimately connected.

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LGBTQ Support

JW Support

JW.support aims to help you accept yourself as wonderful just the way you are

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Mormon No More

Hulu

What does it mean to live authentically? And what does that mean if you're a 30-something married Mormon mom who's just discovered she's gay and in love with her female friend...another Mormon mom? Mormon No More follows the inspirational journey of Sal and Lena as they navigate their way out of the church, out of their marriages, and into their authentic selves - all while co-parenting seven kids with their ex-husbands. Their story intertwines with others in the LGBTQ+ community trying to reconcile their identity with the church's prohibitive doctrine on same-sex relationships. Together these voices carry us through romantic, intimate, and revealing window into a community that teaches us about acceptance, empathy, and the power of living your truth.

📚 Books(7)

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Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.

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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home

Leah Lax

In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story - beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a 40-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for 30 years in order to achieve personal freedom. In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmered beneath the surface throughout her time there. The first memoir to tell of a gay woman who spent years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax's journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.

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Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth

Wayne Besen

Nationally known activist Wayne Besen spent four years examining the phenomenon of "ex-gay" ministries and reparative therapies--interviewing leaders, attending conferences, and visiting ministries undercover as he accumulated hundreds of hours of research. The result is Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, a groundbreaking exposé of the controversial movement that's revered by independent religious groups and reviled by gay and lesbian organizations. The book presents a historical perspective on the dispute, examining "ex-gay" groups such as Love In Action, Exodus International, Homosexuals Anonymous, and profiling a cast of characters that includes Pat Robertson, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, "ex-gay" poster boy John Paulk, National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality activist Richard Cohen, and psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer.

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A Life of Unlearning: a preacher's struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith

Anthony Venn-Brown

There comes a time when we have to face realities in life. For some, reality slaps them in the face, refusing to be ignored. On the surface, everything looked perfect. Anthony Venn-Brown was a popular, high-profile, Pentecostal preacher in Australia's growing mega-churches, such as Hillsong, and happily married father-of-two. Behind the scenes was a different story. Believing homosexuality made him unacceptable to God and others, a secret battle was being fought. After twenty-two years of prayer, struggle, torment, gay conversion therapy and marriage, a chance meeting forced Anthony to make the toughest decision of his life. Tired of feeling torn and fragmented, he confessed and came out. Abandoned by his church and Christian friends Anthony began his life of unlearning; a lonely journey that made him who he is today. This honest account highlights not only the costs of being true to yourself but that the rewards of authenticity and integrity are worth it.

🎙️ Podcasts(1)

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How does gender identity intersect with body positivity?

The Full Bloom Podcast

Researcher Dr. Allegra Gordon and clinician LB Moore join us for a fascinating conversation about gender and body positivity -- touching on the research as well as clinical and lived experience. We discuss the unique stressors faced by trans and gender nonbinary youth, the need for a nuanced approach to body positivity, variations in appearance ideals, and their impact. We also learn how parents and providers can help strengthen protective factors for the young people in their lives.

🏢 Organizations(19)

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Church Clarity

Clarifying where churches stand on LGBTQ Policies & Women in Leadership.. Search your town name only, no state or submit your church

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Silent Gays

Silent Gays is an independent service that: directly addresses the abuses of religion and "gay conversion therapy" (aka "reparative therapy" or "pray away the gay") helps you to live with integrity and personal honesty provides safe spaces for you to look directly at the damage caused to you by church abuse and Christian doctrine, revealingContinue reading →

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Trans Families

Trans Families is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting transgender people and their families since 2008. Formerly called Gender Diversity, we are also the force behind the annual conference Gender Odyssey.

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Rainbow Railroad

Rainbow Railroad helps LGBTQI+ people escape state-sponsored violence. Learn more or request help today.

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PFLAG

families, friends, and allies of LGBTQ+ people

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Born Perfect

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity using psychological interventions. There is no reliable evidence that sexual orientation can be changed and medical institutions warn that conversion therapy practices -- also known as "reparative therapy," "ex-gay therapy," or "sexual orientation change efforts" -- are ineffective and potentially harmful.

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Encircle LGBTQ+ Utah

We envision a world where LGBTQ+ youth and young adults thrive.

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National Center for Transgender Equality

The National Center for Transgender Equality advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. In the nation's capital and throughout the country, NCTE works to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and justice.

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Bilingual website (Tamil and English), with information on alternate sexualities and gender identities

Orinam

Orinam, founded in 2003, is an all-volunteer unregistered collective of LGBTIQA+ people and allies based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It functions as a support, cultural and activist space. On-the-ground activities including meet-ups, peer counselling and referrals, film festivals and literary events, sensitisation workshops, and advocacy and networking with other LGBTIQA+ and other progressive groups and movements in the city, state and country.

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Los Angeles LGBT Center

Since 1969 the Los Angeles LGBT Center has cared for, championed, and celebrated LGBT individuals and families in Los Angeles and beyond.

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National LGBTQ Task Force

Advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people

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Keshet

works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews

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A Place for Marsha

The mission of A Place for Marsha is to facilitate safe housing for trans youth escaping transphobic states. Here, we connect trans individuals (18+) from states with heavy anti-trans legislation with trans youth in safer states who are willing to be their roommates. A Place for Marsha is newly founded and needs your help getting off the ground. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us. All donations will go directly to moving costs.

📁 Other Resources(6)

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Zinnia Jones

YouTube Channel

My work focuses on insights to be found across transgender sociology, public health, psychiatry, history of medicine, cognitive science, the social processes of science, transgender feminism, and human rights, taking an analytic approach that intersects these many perspectives and is guided by the lived experiences of transgender people. The importance of real, concrete support is a guiding value to me, and I'm passionate about community health resources and outreach. I live in Orlando with my family, and work chiefly in technical writing.

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PFLAG

the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies

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It Gets Better Project

Videos to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth.

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A Common Bond

A Common Bond is the worldwide support network for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals who were, or still are, associated with Jehovah's Witnesses.

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