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.

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

“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.

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.