An only--S.F. gay haggadah reflects wrer's own journey

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• 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.

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.

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

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.

Wh s pulse on a social pass, CBST ‎joed the First Gay Rights March on Washgton  1979; and om that pot on beme a regular stop durg the rounds ‎of both cy and state legislators, cudg: Manhattan Borough Print, Andrew Ste; Mayor, Ed Koch; and ‎U. Congrsman, Theodore AIDS CrisisIn 1982, when an immunologil disease began to spread among gay men, CBST held a ‎symposium on “Gay Diseas. Attend by over 2, 200 people, beme the largt gatherg of lbian and gay Jews ‎ history.

Thanks to CBST’s Open Door policy, a missn of longtime CBST member and gay ‎muny activist, Irvg Cooperberg z”l, our High Holy Days servic rema ee and open to all, to this day!

CohenAnd also read A Gay Synagogue New York by Moshe ShokeidRead more aboutTrans & Nonbary history at CBST.

So stead, Hchel chose to clu an orange at her next ser to symbolize the cln of gays and lbians alongsi other margalized groups. Ser participants were ved to sp out the seeds as a gture of repudiatn of homophobia.