Camille Shira Angel
Rabbi Camille Shira Angel is the rabbi of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a LGBT-specific synagogue in San Francisco. It has extensive teen programming, including organizing teen activism for LGBT rights.
Rabbi Camille Shira Angel is the rabbi of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, a LGBT-specific synagogue in San Francisco. It has extensive teen programming, including organizing teen activism for LGBT rights.
The Rev. Theresa Novak is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden, Utah, which has a drop-in center for LGBT youth.
Yadi Martinez is youth minister at Cathedral of Hope in Dallas. The church was formerly a Metropolitan Community Church, is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ and has a large number of LGBT members.
Read a Sept. 27, 2012, article from Yahoo! about a Sikh woman who was cyber-bullied at her university on the basis of her religion.
Read a June 11, 2013, article from the Los Angeles Times about legislative efforts to protect students from anti-gay bullying and the resulting conservative backlash.
Read a June 16, 2013, article from the Los Angeles Times about a No Child Left Behind revision intended to protect students from anti-gay bullying.
Read a July 5, 2013, article from the Associated Press about the Church of England’s effort to end anti-gay bullying in its schools.
Read “DADT and the Chaplains,” a Nov. 30, 2010, blog post by Mark Silk, director of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and professor of religion in public life at Trinity College. Silk argues that chaplains have no standing on religious grounds to object to gays serving openly in the military.
A Dec. 1, 2010, post at the blog of First Things argued that DADT should not be repealed because doing so would open the door to the acceptance of other gay rights in the rest of society.