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While has been reviewed by human transcribers, may nta errors. Please review the episo d before quotg om this transcript and email wh any qutns.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">When Sara Glass walked to the stud, I had to say somethg about her outf.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I’m noticg you’re wearg some very fabulo black leather pants.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">The are my power pants. This is like when I have somethg important to do that day. It’s like, the are the black leather pants.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Would you have worn somethg like this — I don’t know — 15 years ago?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Oh, no, even five years ago, or maybe five years ago, I would have worn the the cy, but not back on Long Island.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Sara grew up an ultra Orthodox Jewish muny. For most of her life, she wore skirts and drs, never pants — and fely not leather on. Bee there are strict l about what Orthodox women n and n’t wear. And Sara followed all of them.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I was wearg a wig over my hair. So was a long blon wig. And I wore skirts. Somethg most that vered my llarbone, elbows and kne. And then I would need to wear tights below that so that you wouldn’t see any exposed sk.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">But 14 years ago, Sara quietly started changg how she showed herself to the world. At first, was slow.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I stopped verg my hair. And I wore my skirts a ltle shorter. And I was sendg like a nonverbal signal that somethg had shifted.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">What shifted was that Sara started beg hont wh herself. Sara is gay. And she was done hidg . So she started rejectg the l and beliefs she’d grown up wh. And she knew people would notice.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I thk what I wanted was for them to not make the assumptn of heteronormativy or religsy when lookg at me. I wanted them to have a doubt their mds and so that they would know that if they really wanted me to be, like, straight or relig, that would be somethg they would need to ask me whether I was or wasn’t.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">As opposed to assumg somethg?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Yeah.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">From The New York Tim, I’m Anna Mart. This is Morn Love.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">[THEME MUSIC]</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">We’re spendg today wh Sara Glass, who wrote an say about her first love, a forbidn love, wh a girl om high school. It’s lled, “Please God, Help Me Stop Missg Her.” Here’s an excerpt om that say read by Julia Whelan.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">julia whelan</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">On the first day of 10th gra Borough Park Brooklyn, she slung her backpack down near me. Our classmat penciled equatns onto graph paper, but she drew on her arm neon gel pen, “Hannah.” I rolled out up my intil navy checked sleeve and put a ballpot pen to my own pale sk. She smirked. I wanted to know everythg about her.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">She was om another cy where there were no Orthodox Jewish high schools. “I don’t get this place,” she said.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">“I will tell you everythg you need to know,” I said.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">We met up Brooklyn at a ncert. We watched Keret, our muny superstar, her long gown sparklg as she filled the room wh song. Hannah was so close that I uld feel the movements of her body the air between . I clenched my shoulr blas together tight, tighter.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">Around , dozens of p voic sang wh Keret about the world to e. Not exactly the appropriate soundtrack for actg on my unholy sir. When the mic end, we watched the crowd disperse onto the streets, a stream of girls and women most garb.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">“Want to sleepover?” I asked, tryg to take the urgency out of my words.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">“Sure! Can we get pizza?”</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">In the dim glow of the streetlights, I saw her gr.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">We created our own ncert later that night, a silent orchtra of sk on sk, her breath my ear, and the poundg of our hearts agast each other the dark. We held each other afterward. I felt her face agast me, her fgers trailg down my back. I wanted to say, “I thk about every sgle day.”</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">As the sunlight bled through my wdow blds, I tried not to notice the slope of her pale shoulr, the way her dark hair spread over my pillow. “This is the last time,” I promised myself and God, as I slid my leg out om between hers.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">It wasn’t the last time. There were other girls. But Sara saw her sir as unholy, unfahful. So she shoved them ep si her. And she mted herself to a life of followg the l.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">At 19, Sara got married to a man. And she prayed would fix her. Here’s Sara.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">When I got married to my first hband, I had strong feelgs that I really should be wh a woman and not wh a man. But I wanted to do what God said was right. And so I had ma mistak, but I fought . I prayed. I fasted. It was like, you know, I’d love to murr people, but I’m like over , I’m mostly over . I only thk of , like, once a while.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">It was that evil to you?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Yeah.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">It was ak to murrg someone?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Exactly. And I thought, I n do . Like, ’s OK. I n handle . I’ll be wh a man. But at least I’ll get to be me this one way.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">I’ll get to have a PhD psychology. That’s, like, the thg for me. My body is gog to be for God. Everythg I do every day will be for God. But jt like, was like the one thg.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">It was like my barga wh God. Let me jt have the PhD psychology. I jt want to do this one thg.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Sara had dreamed of beg a psychologist sce she was a kid. She wanted to work wh children and wh teenagers. But was very rare for a woman her muny to get an advanced gree.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I knew growg up the Hasidic ultra-Orthodox muny, beg a psychologist would be a battle. And so I went and got rabbic permissn om my rabbi to go to graduate school and get a gree psychology. But then my hband seemed to disagree wh that.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And so he went to his rabbi. And his rabbi didn’t thk that would be a very good ia. And so together, they cid I should get a master’s social work stead.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">How did you feel about gog to school for a gree that wasn’t really the dream you’d had?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I was vastated. I was really, really vastated. It jt ma me feel pletely trapped a world that I didn’t really want.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Tell me about what you were learng this social work program?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Social work school, was like my first foray out to the real world outsi of the ultra-Orthodox muny. And I geared up for llege like was a spirual battle. I had holy texts my r. I had a buddy, a relig woman om my block, who was like travelg wh me to llege. We had a plan to study Bible works durg every lunch break so that whatever we learned llege — we didn’t know what would be — but whatever me at the spirual mefield of social work school, we would be ready.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">You uld bat .</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">We’ve got this. And this one day, my profsor rolled one of those old VCRs to the classroom on the ltle metal stand. And the entire film was all about women dancg wh other women and kissg other women and then men who are wearg nail polish.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And I started to get flashbacks of girls I had been wh high school. Seeg the external maniftatn of the mon I had been tryg to fight for my entire life ma me really worried that my bra would turn back on to havg those thoughts and feelgs and that I wouldn’t be able to shut off. And then I started to worry — I was breastfeedg my dghter at the time — and I started to worry, what if the thgs that I see on the screen go to my k and then they fect my dghter? And so I raised my hand and asked to meet the profsor outsi of class and jt basilly asked to be exced.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Was that fear of whatever fluence sort of filtratg your body, was that somethg fah-based or was that a personal fear of yours?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">It was fah-based. We were raised to believe that everythg we thought had nsequenc, everythg we ate had nsequenc, and that everythg we thought while pregnant had nsequenc for our fet we’re rryg.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">How did you unrstand your sexualy at that pot?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I was tryg really hard to be straight. And I thought I had mostly nquered what was an evil temptatn.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">And you felt like, OK, I’m — you were tryg so hard. It sounds like you had such a sort of vice grip on the sir. But then this vio kd of blasted that open aga. Is that te?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">It was threateng to blast that open aga. I had a 1 and 1/2 year old and a newborn. And I uldn’t afford to have all that blasted open.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">What was at stake for you if those sir did e out aga?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">The risks for me were this. If I were to allow that door to bt open and if I were to allow myself to have all the thoughts about women, I uld lose ctody of my children. So the stak were pretty damn high.</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">After the break, gets harr and harr for Sara to lie to herself. And then she’s forced to be hont. That’s next.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">Eventually, Sara Glass divorced her first hband. She got remarried to another man who was supportive of her gettg her PhD. Those years were by. She had two ltle kids. Most nights she’d study until 4:00 AM.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">Still, sometim, her sire would surface. She wanted to be wh a woman. But she’d shove down jt like she had for so many years.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">Fally, Sara graduated. She’d fulfilled her childhood dream. She was officially a psychologist. And she opened her own practice on Long Island, treatg mostly kids and teens om the ultra-Orthodox muny.</p></dd><dl class="css-1jysr6y"><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I got this ltle ttage set back om the Ma Street on Long Island and rated three separate play therapy rooms wh exprsive arts therapy and sand play therapy. And I brought this wonrful, wonrful team of sensive, warm child therapists and adult therapists. It was betiful jt to be able to do the work and to go every day and have young children and teenagers e and feel safe.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Did your clients e to you specifilly bee you were the muny wh them?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">And here’s where gets dicey.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">Some explicly did ask before signg up for therapy wh me, are you Orthodox? And at that time I did intify as Orthodox. And so I said y. And for some, was more implied by the way I drsed and the words that I knew how to speak.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">So they would be able to e words like “Shabbos,” which is observg the Sabbath om sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. But they n jt weave to a sentence and I would know exactly what meant. And for others, was that I was seeg their children. And they wanted their children to have adults their liv who are posive role mols, who were like adherg to the same value system that the parents are tryg to teach at home.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Did you feel like a posive role mol?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I did until I didn’t. You know, I started to stggle once I divorced my send hband. And this was jt bee I was gay.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And I uldn’t do anymore. And so I chose to get divorced and moved to Manhattan and started to date women. And at that pot —</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">But you kept your practice on Long Island?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I kept my practice on Long Island and built a send one Manhattan. I don’t know if I felt like a posive role mol, you know? I felt like maybe a good therapist. But I was startg to worry about that other part.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Was your datg life now that you’re livg Manhattan and you’re divorced, was your datg life, seeg women, was that a secret?</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">From your face looks like a plited answer.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I really didn’t want to have to be a secret. But at the same time, wasn’t somethg I advertised. And what I stggled wh was this. I felt that was my job as the therapist to create this sanctuary for my clients and for them to be able to walk to my room and to know, ’s safe here.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">I don’t need to worry about you. That was sometim the only place they had where they didn’t have to take re of anybody else or worry about anybody else. And that was sacred to me. And so the stggle was, I know I’m changg some thgs. And I know my clients. So I know that the chang I’m makg will give them some pse.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">But now you don’t have that practice on Long Island anymore, rrect? It’s jt the Manhattan one? Tell me about what happened.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">OK. I’ve barely even spoken about this sce happened. So you’ll get to hear very raw. As I’m gog through this whole transn, I started to date someone. And I really, really liked her. And she’s sort of a mascule-prentg lbian.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And I was grapplg wh this stayg closeted vers g out. And so when she wanted to post some pictur of on her personal social media pag, even though I knew was a ltle risky, I was like so tired of beg closeted that I was like, you go, do that. Don’t tag me. Keep your page private. But let’s be proud this ltle area of your private social media page.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">Unfortunately, those pictur got leaked. One person saw them and then screenshot them. And muni like that, they have chats, WhatsApp chats Orthodox muni.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Mhm.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">So my picture went viral.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">On the Orthodox chats?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Y. So when I first heard this was happeng, I spoke wh my team. The were people I employed. And they had already known that I was changg.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And I said to them, if this be an issue for you guys, I will step down om my posn at the head of the practice. You know, if this blows up, I’m gog to jt duck out of the way and take all the fire so you guys n jt get away st-ee and ntue to build your reers.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Ugh.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Yeah.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I mean, I thk — I want you to keep — I thk that’s a genero thg to say to your staff. It’s good that you red for them so much. But also, even the language, “duck away,” “I’ll take the fire —”</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Yeah.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">— I mean, ’s pretty vlent language that you’re g. You know, ’s clear that you were preparg for a potential onslght.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I was. And when the picture got leaked, I started to get the phone lls at first om some clients. And they never said we have a problem wh you beg gay. But what they said was, let’s put all our ssns on hold for now, you know? Or they would say thgs like, we jt wish you had been thentic wh about who you are.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And they weren’t wrong to feel like a ltle b ceived. You know, I’m a feme-prentg lbian. So I have that privilege where I don’t have to — I didn’t have to change my appearance to feel te to who I was. They also met me beg married to a man, wearg a wig. And I look kd of the same, jt whout the wig. And, you know, I had given every imprsn that I was kd of still siar to the person they had known me to be when they met me.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Did you get any lls om clients themselv and not jt the parents of clients?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Y, but I had been the muny for several years. So there are some kids I had watched some grow up. Like, I had treated them om send gra to seventh gra or somethg like that.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">I knew when their teeth fell out. I helped them go on their first overnight sleepovers. And so there was one teenager, she reached out to me and said, the person I would normally talk to about this would be you and now I n’t even talk to you. And I jt don’t even know if I’ll ever tst anybody aga.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Oh my god. How did you rpond to that?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">I cried. That one really broke me. I didn’t say that to the child. I validated her feelgs. I apologized to her. I told her I unrstood and that I would talk wh her mom about how she uld move forward. Bee, aga, she was a child. I didn’t want to vlate the parents’ wish and engage too much this out-of-ssn munitn.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Did you eventually follow up on your promise to your staff and leave that practice?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Y. I had this one associate on my staff whom I had been workg wh for the longt. And she lled me. And she said, you know, ’s time.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And I remember drivg around Columb Circle. And I jt uldn’t remember how to get out of the circle. I was like drivg around and around and around, like tryg to stay ol on the phone. And pretty much overnight, had to shut that practice down.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And, actually, I do want to mentn, there were some clients who lled me and had different nversatns wh me. And they said, you’ve been our therapist for all the years. We know who you are.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And we hope you’re happy. And where is your new office? Bee we’re gog to take the tra. And we’ll be there.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">It sounds like you were beg so strong for the people around you, but, I mean, this is vastatg. How were you pg?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">The person I was datg at the time is now my wife. And she remembers jt holdg me through those nights. And I would jt sometim wake up shakg and cryg.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">It was jt all I wanted to do is be a safe person for those children and those teens. And then when I turned to the person who hurt them and who ed them pa, I really, really need her. And I was glad that she was there.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">You married the woman the photo?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Y, she is the most lovg, sweett person I uld ever have imaged endg up wh. And she and I actually have another child together. He’s 2 and 1/2 now. And he’s jt, like, the sweett.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">And your two kids have a baby brother?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Y, they do. They’re great wh him.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">How old are they now?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">They’re junrs high school.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Whoa.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">So our hoehold right now, we are — we’re dog llege tours.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Are you still touch wh anyone the Orthodox muny where you grew up?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">No.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Not at all?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">No, I’ll ocsnally have ltle bs of munitn wh my siblgs.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And ’s not that they cut me off or I cut them off. It’s jt that they live a world where havg a queer sister would be a problem for them.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Do you ever feel homick for that muny at all?</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Yeah, I do. They’re only like about 11 away om where we are right now. And I know that bee I’ve gone on to Google Maps and been like, how far is my sister om where I am and how crazy is that we’re livg such pletely different liv?</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">And there are many tim when I feel like I jt want to ll someone, you know, and jt say this great thg happened today. And I don’t have that many of those people. And sometim I’m jt like, you know, gefilte fish is this Jewish food. It’s like image takg whe fish, grdg , mixg wh flour, and bakg as a loaf. It’s not the bt.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">But I’ll be like, I jt want gefilte fish, you know? Like, once a while, I’ll buy a jar of . My fay is like, jt n you jt put that the back of the idge? But I’ll eat a piece jt to feel like that nnectn to home.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Sara, thank you so much for this nversatn.</p></dd><dt class="css-xx7kwh">sara glass</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Thank you for beg open to hearg all about the good, the bad, the difficult. I appreciate .</p></dd></dl><dt class="css-xx7kwh">anna mart</dt><dd class="css-4gvq6l"><p class="css-8hvvyd">Morn Love is back for a whole new season. Episos drop every week on Wednday. “Morn Love” is produced by Julia Botero, Christa Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Hans Buetow. It’s eded by Sarah Sarasohn. This episo was mixed by Sophia Lanman and Corey Schreppel. And our show was rerd by Maddy Masiello.</p><p class="css-8hvvyd">The “Morn Love” theme mic is by Dan Powell. Digal productn by Mahima Chablani and Nell Gallogly. 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FIRST OPENLY GAY ORTHODOX RABBI ORDAED JESALEM

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He wrote rponse to lls at the time to ncel the sodomy law (which was ultimately ncelled only 1988, thanks to Shulam Aloni) I, as an Orthodox Rabbi, Support Legalizg Same-sex Marriage We Sharpened the Assailant's Knife In Their Own Words Livneh was neher ultra-Orthodox nor Orthodox, but rather a Jewish natnalist, yet his ma argument was that homosexualy is foreign to Judaism, nstut a foreign fluence by generate Wtern culture and should be the op-ed he claimed that for hundreds of years Jews the Diaspora succeed prervg their muni om those “sexual perversns, ” or as he phrased : “It is totally absurd to have suffered for many generatns the Diaspora, while strictly prervg, nurturg and refg the heterosexual prciple, only to return to the Land of Israel and renew the ‘gentil’ abomatn’ here.

In the 1970s he was a pneer of the mpaign to ncel the prohibn on homosexualy Germany (Paragraph 175) the prohibn on homosexualy often relied on the prohibn Levic 18, Schoeps wanted to make clear the ntext which this prohibn was promulgated. He might have been nsired a kd of msiah of the homoerotic gospel among the Jewish people had his unual kabbalistic theory not been silenced and phed to the his book “The Erotics of Kabbala” published 1923, Langer argued that “brotherly love, ” i.

‘RACISM IS VERY PREVALENT THE JEWISH MUNY.’ A BLACK, JEWISH, GAY LEAR SPEAKS OUT.

"Racism is very prevalent the Jewish muny." A Black, Jewish, gay lear speaks out. * jewish gay *

The LGBT liberatn movement appeared only the 1970s, as an Amerin-style, secular, liberal is not necsary to accept the theori propound by Laner, Schoeps and others like them, but their attempts to create a Jewish homosexualy are particularly relevant now. Nohels, the tradnal Jewish posn on homosexualy is still difficult for many liberal-md Jews, and the liberal nomatns have bated the extent to which gays and lbians n be fully tegrated to relig Conservative Halakhah and HomosexualyThe first and least ntroversial step taken by the Conservative, Renstctnist, and Reform movements was to endorse civil equaly for gays and lbians. In addn, the Reform movement approv of rabbic officiatn at same-sex marriag and mment Denomatnal Approach on Ordag Openly Gay and Lbian RabbisDaniel Siegel, the Rabbic Director of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, has endorsed same-sex marriage specifilly bee he believ that hols should not be limed only to certa people and certa relatnships.

Usg this as her startg pot, Rebec Alpert, a Renstctnist rabbi, has argued that the ernment’s refal to regnize same-sex marriage vlat relig rabbis wh the Conservative movement also ce the ncept of on ( which an dividual has no real choice) permtg homosexual sex. The all-important book of Jewish Law, the Talmud, ntas statements to the effect that anal sex among men solar eclips (Skah 29a) and earthquak (Jesalem Talmud, Berachot 13:3), but also distguish between two forms of perasty — anal sex that warrants a penalty of ath by stong, and homosexual sex that don’t volve peratn, about which the rabbis were more lenient (Niddah 13b). In his book “Carnal Israel: Readg Sex Talmudic Culture” (1993), the historian Daniel Boyar appli somewhat creative terpretatns of rabbic texts, that lead him to the ncln that late antiquy, Jews engaged homosexualy openly, albe whout anal sex.

While his readgs are tertg and this Talmud page is unqutnably weird, don’t seem plsible that homosexualy was openly practiced among the rabbis, pecially light of the fact that the rabbis permted men to share a bed — notwhstandg the warng of Rabbi Judah that this would lead to illic sex — bee “Jews were not spect of such acts” (Tosefta Kiddh 5:10). One example om a Greek town near Saloniki, om the year 1561, will suffice: “David bar Nissim me and gave ttimony how last summer he was walkg a town and he saw that Moshko wh a guy which was havg homosexual sex wh him, and when they saw him they ran away separate directns wh their pants undone. In Palte of the early 20th century, this new German social nstct of homosexual inty llid wh the mon Mederranean practice of sex among men and boys, on top of which, Anglo and Slavic notns held sodomy to be a grave s and a crime.

LGBTQ PRI MONTH: OY VEY, WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS GAY?

As Jewish arts centre JW3 celebrat the bt of LGBT culture, and the release of BFI-backed documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? draws closer, we remember some of the bt Jewish and Israeli gay and lbian films. * jewish gay *

The Civil Rights Movement's drive to abolish sodomy laws the Uned Stat was reported Israeli newspapers, and a liberalized attu towards homosexualy began to proliferate Israeli society, through cema, televisn, lerature and other media. Los Angel prents: The world's first gay synagogue In the Uned Stat, Reform Judaism had been embracg of homosexualy at least sce 1972, when the movement accepted the Beth Chayim Chadashim ngregatn of Los Angel — the world’s first gay synagogue — to s fold.

The liberal Jewish movements have unrgone dramatic shifts their approach to gay, lbian and transgenr Jews the past two s, but among the Orthodox the chang have been far ls dramatic — and many quarters, virtually seemgly clear biblil nunciatns of homosexual sex, as well as the rp of rabbic mentari and legal s based on those vers, lim how far Orthodox Judaism, marked by s fily to tradnal unrstandgs of Jewish law, or halacha, n move on this several efforts have emerged recent years to lend more support to Orthodox Jews experiencg homosexual sir and make the muny more passnate and welg toward them, all the efforts stop short of sanctng gay relatnships. The two pol of this bate are fairly well leated by two petg statements on the first, entled “Statement of Prcipl on the Place of Jews wh a Homosexual Orientatn Our Communy, ” was drafted by a faculty member at the liberal Orthodox rabbil school Yhivat Chovevei Torah and released 2010.

HOW N YOU BE GAY AND JEWISH?

Randal F. Schnoor, Beg Gay and Jewish: Negotiatg Intersectg Inti, Soclogy of Relign, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Sprg, 2006), pp. 43-60 * jewish gay *

While acknowledgg the halachic (Jewish legal) ban on homosexual sex and rejectg any acceptance of same-sex marriage, the statement neverthels asserted that gays should be weled as full and equal members of Orthodox muni and should, most s, not be enuraged to marry someone of the oppose genr. The Statement of Prcipl cled to weigh on the qutn of whether homosexual orientatn is geic and unchangeable, or if is a choice, as some people 2016, the Israeli Morn Orthodox rabbil group Be Hillel issued a siar statement, urgg that gays be allowed to serve “any munal pacy.

JEWISH EDIAN MODI ROSENFELD, A MASTAY FOR ORTHODOX DIENC, IS GAY. SO WHAT?

The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy and persecuted gay men between 1933 and 1945. * jewish gay *

It is regard as effective and potentially harmful by the Amerin Medil Associatn, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and many the Orthodox muny, who for theologil reasons fd impossible to accept that a homosexual orientatn is unchangeable, ntue to advote for such therapi.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Rabbi Arele Harel offers an unnventnal solutn for Orthodox Jewish gay men who want to raise a nventnal fay: He fix them up wh Orthodox lbians. * jewish gay *

The RCA had prevly endorsed JONAH’s work, but whdrawg s endorsement the uncil ced evince that the therapy was effective and had potentially negative 2010 Statement of Prcipl assertg that gays should be weled affirmed “the relig right of those wh a homosexual orientatn to reject theraptic approach they reasonably see as els or dangero. Jewish Queer Youth, or JQY, was found 2001 and acts as a support group and advocy group for LGBTQ Jews, wh a particular emphasis on Orthodox Orthodox Parents Uned by Love of Torah…And Our LGBT ChildrenIn 2015, JQY helped anize a nference that brought together Orthodox rabbis and mental health profsnals to talk about homosexualy what is believed to have been the first public discsn of s Tremblg Before G-d EffectThe progrs of gays and lbians gag acceptance wh Orthodoxy, limed though may be, is often creded to the 2001 documentary Tremblg Before G-d, which thst the stggl of Orthodox gays and lbians to the public nscns as never before.

A YOUNG HASIDIC MAN LEADS A GAY DOUBLE LIFE BLACK HAT

Omar Alkattoul, 19, of Sayreville, plead guilty Wednday to transmtg a threat terstate and foreign merce. Feral prosecutors have said Alkattoul exprsed hatred of Jews and admted postg onle that “God cursed the Jewish people and God should burn gay people.” * jewish gay *

The film’s sympathetic portrayal of dividuals tryg to rencile their sexualy wh their relig mments earned high praise, but some the Orthodox muny saw as a shallow attempt to legimize viant sexual film promently featured Steven Greenberg, wily known as the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi. As social attus toward lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people have unrgone a sea change globally, stanc taken by Jewish lears and movements have changed along wh, same-sex marriag are regnized by the Reform, Conservative, Renewal and Renstctnist movements, and each movement’s rabbil semary ordas LGBTQ stunts. All the chang were preced by the Renstctnist movement, which began beme the first movement to accept gays and lbians as rabbil stunts 1984 and whose rabbis have long been ee to officiate at same-sex while the liberal Jewish muny has shifted markedly on this issue, homosexualy remas a vexg issue Orthodoxy, which ntu to hold fast to the Torah’s seemgly flexible rejectn of homosexual acts.

MEET THE RABBI WHO BRGS ORTHODOX LBIANS TOGETHER WH GAY MEN SO THEY N HAVE KIDS

Tens of thoands of gay men and lbians were persecuted by the Nazis but stigma and a lack of rearch fundg has kept their history hidn. * jewish gay *

” Many thori nsir this prohibn to be one of Judaism’s rdal ss and believe mt not be transgrsed even at the threat of one’s Readg the Prohibn Agast Homosexualy ContextEven the most tradnally-md terpreters of the verse acknowledge that the Torah do not prohib homosexualy as such, but merely one specific sexual act — generally unrstood to be anal sex between two men.

The biblil vers are also generally not unrstood as rejectg homosexuals as dividuals, but merely homosexual differ sharply along nomatnal The Reform movement was the first of the major nomatns to take a liberal posn toward homosexualy, adoptg the first of many rolutns on behalf of gays and lbians 1977. Conservative: In 2006, the Conservative movement nclud a polarizg bate over homosexualy wh the endorsement of two ntradictory opns — one upholdg the movement’s prev rejectn of gay relatnships, and another retag the Torah prohibn on male anal sex but allowg for other forms of sexual timacy between members of the same sex.

The Reform movement now nsirs same-sex marriage to qualify as kiddh — the rabbic term for betrothal, a holy unn between two 2012, the same three Conservative rabbis who thored the more liberal opn on homosexualy noted above published a seri of ruals and documents pertag to same-sex marriage ceremoni and divorce. Though the largt Orthodox rabbil group, the Rabbil Council of Ameri, had at one time mend JONAH’s work, publicly whdrew s endorsement 2012, cg evince that the therapy was effective and had potentially negative the Orthodox muny still support nversn therapy, however, part bee they believe is impossible that homosexual sir uld be both unchangeable and proscribed by the Torah. Israel has regularly touted s achievements on gay rights as a sign of s progrsive Wtern worldview, a practice some crics have rid as an attempt at “pkwashg” — that is, to distract om s treatment of the more on LGBTQ Jewish life, vis MyJewishLearng’s Khet blog.

A LANDMARK FOR GAY CEMA — AND ONE OF THE BT JEWISH FILMS YEARS

Rabbi Nathan Lop Cardozo, another proment rabbi who has ocsnally e to nflict wh the Orthodox mastream, agreed wh Lans, tellg JTA that while he didn’t have a rabbic source to back up, he believ that “the prohibn [on homosexual acts] only appli to those who are purely heterosexual.

Lans said that the genis of his transformatn om the mastream Orthodox posn, which views homosexualy as a grave s, me several s ago after he explaed to members of his own ngregatn the Uned Stat why he had cled to attend a nference anized by the Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis after the Reform-affiliated group passed a rolutn on LGBT cln.

As early as 1990, the Rabbil Assembly’s Commtee on Jewish Law and Standards, which sets halakhic (legal) policy for the Conservative Movement, stated their sire to “work for full and equal civil rights for gays and lbians our natnal life. As JW3, the Jewish muny centre north London, lnch GayW3, celebratg the liv of the LGBTQ muny throughout history to the prent day through film, theatre, mic and discsn, and upliftg Brish-Israeli documentary Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?, backed by the BFI, prepar for s cema release, now is a great time to look back at the bt of Jewish and Israeli LGBT cema. A number of Brish films jt missed the list, cludg Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), which Jewish doctor Peter Fch enjoyed Brish cema’s first male-on-male kiss; award-wng short film Sidney Turtlebm (2008), starrg Derek Jabi as an elrly gay Jewish pickpocket and nman; and Lisa Gornick’s latt film, The Book of Gabrielle (2016), a funny and sharp study of a Jewish lbian whose sexualy is thrown to turmoil.

GAMAL J. PALMER US HIS BLACK, JEWISH AND GAY INTI TO FIGHT FOR CHANGE

His adaptatn of Mart Crowley’s play, about a group of gay men who gather for Harold’s party, rultg a cel eveng of sadistic gam and sabotage, me at the wrong time – as the gay liberatn movement tablished s voice the early 1970s, negative or prsg pictns of gay men the media were seen as archaic and obstctive to progrs. While Michael, the pathetic protagonist, is ed an unlikeable and self-pyg monster, the other characters are far more sympathetic, while the glor Harold, utterly unashamed of his homosexualy and wh nothg to hi, emerg om the rnage unsthed.

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)Harvey Fierste is bt known for his stage work, particularly for wrg the books for the stage mils La Cage x Foll and Kky Boots, jog Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman as Broadway legends who happened to be both gay and Jewish.

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FROM WRER AND ANIZER ADAM ELI TO "SNAPCHAT RABBI" SANDRA LAWSON, THE ACTIVISTS ARE ALL REFG WHAT MEANS TO BE QUEER AND JEWISH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAKE COHEN (@JAKECOHEN){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT JAKE COHEN IS HAVG A MOMENT. THE OPENLY GAY FOOD WRER AND SELF-SCRIBED "NICE JEWISH BOY" PUBLISHED HIS BUT OKBOOK, JEW-ISH: REVENTED RECIP FROM A MORN MENSCH, EARLIER THIS YEAR. IT QUICKLY BEME A NEW YORK TIM BTSELLER, WARMG THE HEARTS (AND STOMACHS) OF KOSHER-ABIDG FOODI AND THOSE WHO LOVE JEWISH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COHEN'S JEWISH PRI IS EVINT EVERY RECIPE HE SHAR — AND HIS MOUTHWATERG INSTAGRAM FEED IS AN EXTENSN OF THAT CELEBRATORY ENERGY. COME FOR THE BEC (BAN, EGG, AND CHEE) PORN, AND STAY FOR SELF-TAPED VIOS OF COHEN AND HIS HBAND, ALEX, MAKG CHALLAH BREAD OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ADAM ELI (@ADAMELI){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ADAM ELI IS A WRER, MUNY ANIZER, AND 2018 LOGO30 HONOREE BASED NEW YORK CY. HE HAS WRTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT HOW BEG JEWISH RMS HIS QUEER ACTIVISM, AND HIS BUT BOOK, THE NEW QUEER CONSCIENCE, DRAWS ON HIS LIVED EXPERIENCE TO ARGUE THAT QUEER PEOPLE ANYWHERE ARE RPONSIBLE FOR THE SAFETY AND EQUALY OF QUEER PEOPLE GLOBALLY. HE'S ALSO FANTASTIC AT UPLIFTG THE VOIC OF OTHER LGBTQ ACTIVISTS AND ARTISTS, SHARG EQUENT SHOUT-OUTS, LLS TO ACTN, AND TNAL NTENT ABOUT HISTORIL EVENTS WH HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"OF URSE JEWISH HISTORY IS ACTIVELY BEG MA, BUT THERE'S SUCH A WI SPE OF JEWISH HISTORY AND SO MANY BOOKS AND ROURC THAT N BE DNTG TO LEARN ABOUT," ELI TELLS LOGO. "IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I LOVE BEG QUEER AND JEWISH. WE'RE AT THIS CREDIBLE TERSECTN WHERE WE REALLY ARE FULL-FORCE MAKG QUEER JEWISH HISTORY." HE C THE "AMAZG STUNT ACTIVISTS" AT YHIVA UNIVERSY, WHO FILED A LAWSU AGAST THE UNIVERSY AFTER REFED TO REGNIZE THEIR LGBTQ STUNT GROUP, AS A GREAT EXAMPLE. "WE ARE LIVG HISTORY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RABBI SANDRA LAWSON (@RABBISANDRA){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AN ARMY VETERAN, A VEGAN, AND AN ORDAED RABBI WH RENSTCTG JUDAISM, RABBI SANDRA LAWSON TLY MARCH TO THE BEAT OF HER OWN DM. THE ACTIVIST HAS MA A NAME FOR HERSELF AS "THE SNAPCHAT RABBI," DISCSG HER FAH AND HER POSNALY AS A BLACK LBIAN RABBI WH EAGER DIENC ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS. "JEWS N BENEF OM WHE PRIVILEGE AND FACE DISCRIMATN FOR BEG JEWS. BOTH N BE TE AT THE SAME TIME," SHE WROTE A MOVG PERSONAL SAY FOR THE FORWARD. "TO MY BROTHERS, SISTERS, AND GENR NON-NFORMG JEWISH FAY WHO WANT TO DRY OFF AND DO BETTER, WE MT LISTEN TO THE EXPERIENC OF BLACK JEWS AND OTHER JEWS OF LOR."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LAWSON IS ALSO A GIFTED SGER AND GUARIST, AND HER SWEET-SOUNDG VOICE PAIRS BETIFULLY WH EVERYTHG OM UNTRY CLASSICS TO JEWISH ROOTS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEX HORWZ (@LEX_HORWZ){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEX HORWZ WEARS MANY HATS. A PROUDLY JEWISH AND NONBARY MOL, FLUENCER, AND TOR, HORWZ THEIR PLATFORM TO CHALLENGE NVENTNAL BETY IALS AND ADVOTE FOR LGBTQ ACCEPTANCE. THEIR PASTEL-HUED INSTAGRAM FEED IS FULL OF STUNNG LOOKS AND EQUALLY DAZZLG PTNS HONORG THEIR JEWISH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ABBY STE (@ABBYCHAVASTE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ABBY STE WAS RAISED A HASIDIC JEWISH FAY WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, BEFORE LEAVG HER ULTRA-ORTHODOX MUNY 2012. THREE YEARS LATER, SHE ME OUT AS A TRANSGENR WOMAN AND MA HER MISSN TO ADVOTE FOR OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE LEAVG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JUDAISM IS STILL A HUGE PART OF STE'S LIFE, AND SHE WR NDIDLY ABOUT BEG JEWISH AND TRANS HER MEMOIR, BEG EVE: MY JOURNEY OM ULTRA-ORTHODOX RABBI TO TRANSGENR WOMAN. IT'S ALSO ALL OVER HER FEED, OM PICS OF HER HOMEMA CHALLAH BREAD TO HER BETIFUL SPREADS FOR JEWISH HOLIDAYS LIKE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DUBBS WEBLATT (@ELDUBBS12){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TRANSGENR ACTIVIST DUBBS WEBLATT IS PERHAPS BT KNOWN AS THE FOUNR AND HOST OF THANK YOU FOR COMG OUT, A QUEER IMPROV SHOW ABOUT G-OUT STORI WH A POPULAR PODST OF THE SAME NAME. THEY ALSO WORK FOR KHET, A NATNAL ANIZATN THAT ADVOT FOR THE CLN OF LGBTQ JEWS JEWISH LIFE. IT'S HARD NOT TO FEEL ENERGIZED BY THEIR PROUD DISPLAYS OF #{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I FD MY STRENGTH OM WH AND DON’T NEED ANY OUTSI SOURC, GOD CLUD, TO BE MY OWN NSTANT, MY OWN DIVY," WEBLATT WROTE A RECENT SAY FOR HEY ALMA. "I WAS MA THE WAY I AM BEE ’S WHO I AM MEANT TO BE. EVERY MOVE OR MISTAKE I’VE MA, EVERY LSON I’VE LEARNED, HAS MA ME WHO I AM, AND I WOULDN’T TRA ANY OF MY EXPERIENC TO BE BORN ANY OTHER WAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Few gay and lbian survivors were alive to tell their stori when Rob Epste and Jefey Friedman ma their important documentary Paragraph 175, whose tle riv om the German act of law prohibg gay sex, which ntued to exist to the 1990s. Rather than producg a para of cshed victims, the film foregrounds the sharp mentary of Gad Beck, a Jewish gay man who helped refuge pe; the wistful memori of love lost om Hez F., still too guard to reveal his full name; and the undiluted anger of Pierre Seel, who was tortured by Nazi officers. Yossi (2012)Eytan Fox is one of Israel’s foremost directors, and all of his films foc on gay characters, often g homosexualy to ment on a wir theme, such as self-realisatn Mossad thriller Walk on Water (2004) or the Israeli–Paltian nflict The Bubble (2006).

(2016)After a year on the ftival circu, where won the documentary award at the Berl Film Ftival and the dience award at the UK Internatnal Jewish Film Ftival, Barak and Tomer Heymann’s feature about the life of Saar Maoz, an HIV posive gay man livg London after beg rejected by his Israeli fay and driven away om his Kibbutz, is fally gettg a short cema release April 2017. Kameny’s Wiki b also stat that he was an Ashkenazi Jew, and this ma me wonr: Are Jews overreprented the gay muny jt as they areas of our society, such as publishg, televisn, news media, the film dtry, porn dtry, amia, the arts and bankg?

They are rarely acquated wh gay or lbian people, and lack data that is absolutely necsary  orr to properly unrstand the verse: the voic of those who know that their sexualy is eher geic or so eply environmentally ndned that is unchangeable.

IN THE US, GAY NVERSN THERAPY NTU SOME ORTHODOX MUNI

In any se, the on should be on those who would prohib same-sex relatns to expla their theology, the grammar of the verse, and the place of gay men (remember, none of the above appli to lbians) the Jewish muny if their souls are to be cut off this way. Wrten by the inic Jewish gay rights and AIDS activist Larry Kramer, who died last month, and based on his experienc, “The Normal Heart” follows Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), a Jewish-Amerin wrer who aniz a group foced on brgg attentn to how a myster illns is slghterg an oddly specific group of New Yorkers: gay men. The Variety article was born of Rosenfeld’s epeng belief that ’s possible to merge his Orthodox and gay inti more publicly — somethg that he has long done as a ngregant and sometim-ntor at the Morn Orthodox synagogue he attends the East Village.

For their weddg, Greenberg and Cohen turned to Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, to velop a ceremony which bed bs partnership ntracts wh Jewish tradns of vow-takg and oaths to create a bdg agreement of obligatns unr Jewish law. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn has clared no solid evince exists that such change is said his method is meant for those who n't change, yet want to rema observant and have began matchg lbians and gay men six years ago, he said, bee he regnized a "ep distrs" among people "facg a ad end road. Once they are married, they each pay around $400 for Harel's 's secular majory has largely embraced the Wtern gay rights movement that has led to six ci, among them New York, legalizg same-sex gay marriage IsraelThere is no gay marriage Israel primarily bee there is no civil marriage and all weddgs mt be done through the Jewish rabbate, which do not marry gays and nsirs homosexualy a s and a vlatn of Jewish adoptn is officially illegal but some upl get around the law and surrogacy is an optn for many same-sex upl.

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LGBTQ+ History Month: gay victims and survivors of the Holot are often fotten – we need to tell their stori .

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