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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
* lgbt in religion *
Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. If you have not, we enurage you to read through PFLAG’s gui lled “Fah Our Fai: Parents, Fai, and Friends Talk About Relig and Homosexualy”: /document.doc?id=494. Acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center analysis, 26 percent of Amerins intify as agnostic, atheist or “nothg particular, ” up om 17 percent jt a Sharon Klebm, of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, New York’s LGBTQ synagogue, said the barriers gay people face when participatg their fah have only started to fall.
“There’s been progrs, but I al wh people all the time om liberal relig fai who have faced horrible bigotry and rejectn, ” she, she add, the hunger for spirualy is ep among gay people — perhaps even eper than among the larger populatn. 5 percent intify as Jewish and 2 percent as the percentage of gay Amerins who intify as part of any fah tradn is still nsirably lower than the general populatn, of which 67 percent is relig, acrdg to a 2017 Gallup LGBTQ Black Amerins, the most likely mographic to be relig (over 70 percent), still lag behd Black people the general populatn: More than 82 percent are relig. Unfortunately, for many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) dividuals, their relign of upbrgg n be ls than welg of their same-sex attractn or non-cisgenr inty.
However, non-affirmg relig beliefs about same-sex attractn or genr inty (and siarly non-LGBT iendly ngregatns) n actually exacerbate mory strs, specifilly ternalized homophobia, which self is associated wh creased suicidal thoughts. Tyler Deaton of the Amerin Uny Fund, who intifi as a gay nservative, tri to DEATON: We have to have laws on the books that n make explic when we're protected and when we're not. And this is the hard thg for me to say as a gay guy - like, there are gog to be tim that there are relig anizatns that are gog to have the eedom to refe to serve me or employ me.