(2021)

Contents:

• AN ONLY--S.F. GAY HAGGADAH REFLECTS WRER’S OWN JOURNEY
• GAY PASSOVER: THE GAYT VERSN OF EXOD EVER TOLD - SOFTVER

AN ONLY--S.F. GAY HAGGADAH REFLECTS WRER’S OWN JOURNEY

The host of the Passover ser I’ll attend Friday eveng will clu an orange on the ceremonial plate, as a means of acknowledgg gay and lbian stggl durg the holiday that memorat Jewish people’s liberatn om bondage Egypt. “Durg the first part of the ser, I asked everyone to take a segment of the orange, make the blsg over u, and eat as a gture of solidary wh Jewish lbians and gay men, and others who are margalized wh the Jewish muny, ” she wrote 2001.

“In addn, each orange segment had a few seeds that had to be sp out – a gture of sptg out, repudiatg the homophobia that poisons too many Jews. The Stonewall Ser is an LGBTQ Haggadah that began as a ser celebrated by the Berkeley Queer Myan for Gay Pri Weekend. is the rult of several reterpretatns of a rual origally signed for Gay and Lbian Pri weekend.

GAY PASSOVER: THE GAYT VERSN OF EXOD EVER TOLD - SOFTVER

tegrat LGBTQ Passover tradns wh the spir of the tradnal Passover experience, cludg an LGBTQ-specific ser plate, the four LGBTQ children, the Prophets Miriam’s Cup, and much Nishtana: A Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, Qutng, Ally Haggadah follows the tradnal stcture of the Passover Ser but ntas readgs and discsn qutns pertag to LGBTQ inty and life. The Early YearsIn 1973, Jab Gubbay, a gay Jewish man om India, was livg New York and noticed a small ad for a gay ‎Passover Ser at the Church of the Holy Apostl, Chelsea.

‎ Gubbay volunteered to lead the Ser that night and retold the story of our liberatn ‎om Egyptian slavery; and wh that, the ia of a gay synagogue was born.

‎Shortly after the ser, Jab Gubbay negotiated a way to nduct ‎weekly Friday night servic the church and ls than a year, a small ad was placed the Village Voice announcg the gay synagogue’s first Friday night ‎service.