Confsns of Queer Jews (Confsn - as a gay Jew, I've personally...)

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• IN THE IMAGE OF GODA RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT JEWS ARE THE MOGRAPHIC GROUP MOST ACCEPTG OF TRANS DIVIDUALS THE UNED STAT.WHEN CERTA CHRISTIANS ASSERT A RELIG EEDOM RIGHT TO DISCRIMATE AGAST TRANS DIVIDUALS – PARTICULARLY, A RIGHT TO MISGENR THEM – THEIR ARGUMENT TYPILLY PROCEEDS SOMETHG ALONG THE L:1. THEY BELIEVE EVERY DIVIDUAL IS CREATED THE IMAGE OF GOD.2. PART OF THAT IMAGE IS THE PERSON’S SEX (AND BY EXTENSN, GENR).3. IN PARTICULAR, A PERSON’S SEX/GENR IS ALTERABLY ASSIGNED BY GOD OM NCEPTN.4. THEY ARE FORBIDN OM LYG OR FALSIFYG GOD’S CHOICE.THEREFORE, THEY SAY, THEY ARE RELIGLY OBLIGATED TO REFER TO PEOPLE BY THEIR CHROMOSOMAL SEX, REGARDLS OF HOW THEY INTIFY OR PUBLICLY PRENT. THIS RELIG DUTY, TURN, IS ED TO PRS AGAST L AND POLICI WHICH REQUIRE RPECTFUL TREATMENT OF TRANS DIVIDUALS (CLUDG REAG OM LIBERATELY MISGENRG THEM, ADNAMG THEM, AND SO ON).WHAT’S TERTG ABOUT THIS AMEWORK IS THAT A LOT OF ACTUALLY RONAT WH HOW I VIEW THE RELATNSHIP OF MY JEWISH FAH AND TRANS DIVIDUALS – WH SOME CCIAL ALTERATNS. TO W:1. I BELIEVE EVERY DIVIDUAL IS CREATE THE IMAGE OF GOD.2.  PART OF THAT IMAGE IS THE PERSON’S SEX (AND BY EXTENSN, GENR).4. I AM FORBIDN OM LYG OR FALSIFYG GOD’S CHOICE.THE MAJOR DISTCTN, OF URSE, PRONG 3:3. A PERSON’S SEX/GENR IS NOT NECSARILY OR ALTERABLY ASSIGNED BY GOD OM NCEPTN, BUT RATHER N BE PART OF A PERSON’S OWN PROCS OF DISVERG WHO THEY ARE. WHERE SUCH SELF-DISVERY LEADS TO A PERSON TO NCLU THEY ARE TRANS, NON-BARY, OR ANY OTHER INTY THAT PARTS OM THE SEX THEY WERE ASSIGNED AT BIRTH, THEY ARE NOT VIATG OM GOD’S PLAN. THEY ARE UNVERG THEIR THENTIC SELF AS GOD HAS CREATED THEM. THE RULT OF THIS PROCS IS PART OF GOD’S IMAGE. THOSE WHO REFE TO ACCEPT ARE NOT CLEAVG TO GOD’S IMAGE, THEY ARE REJECTG .GOD’S PROCS OF CREATN IS NOT, MY UNRSTANDG OF JUDAISM, A SET-AND-FET SORT OF AL. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF PASSIVELY BEG PUPPETEERED BY A DIVE HAND. IT SOMETHG WE DO TOGETHER – WE ARE PARTNERS CREATN. TO NY THE RULTS OF THAT PARTNERSHIP IS, FOR ME, A NIAL OF GOD’S PLAN AND PRACTICE JT AS MUCH AS IS FOR ADHERENTS OF OTHER RELIG VIEWS WHO ADHERE TO A MORE STATIC AND LCIFIED NOTN OF THE ROLE OF THE DIVE.AND SO FOR ME, AND I SPECT FOR MANY JEWS, THE RELIG EEDOM OBLIGATN PH THE OTHER DIRECTN. MANY NSERVATIVE STAT HAVE, OR ARE NSIRG, LAWS WHICH REQUIRE (AT LEAST CERTA NTEXTS) NON-REGNN OF TRANS INTY. FOR JEWS (AND OTHERS) WHO SHARE MY RELIG PRECEPTS, THE LAWS WOULD FORCE ME TO NY – TO BEAR FALSE WNS TO – A KEY ATTRIBUTE OF HOW GOD CREATED SOME OF MY PEERS. I DO NOT BELIEVE – AND THIS IS A EP, FUNDAMENTAL MMENT – THAT GOD’S “IMAGE” OF TRANS PERSONS WAS FOR THEM TO BE LOCKED A BODY OR SEX OR GENR INTY THAT CLEARLY IS NOT THENTILLY THEIRS. WHEN THEY FD THEIR FULL SELF, THEY ARE EQUALLY FDG GOD’S IMAGE OF THEMSELV.CONSISTENT WH MY LENGTHILY EXPRSED FEELGS ON THE SUBJECT, I SPECT THAT WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR THE GANR. DPE THE CLEAR PARALLEL, LIBERAL JEWS WHO ASSERT RELIG LIBERTY RIGHTS TO BE EXEMPTED OM LAWS SEEKG TO ENFORCE BY STATE MANDATE A TRANSPHOBIC AGENDA WILL NOT MEET WH THE SAME SUCCS ENJOYED BY THEIR CHRISTIAN PEERS.NOHELS, THERE IS VALUE PROMOTG THIS SORT OF AMEWORK, AND UNASHAMEDLY ASSERTG JEWISH PENNCE OM HEGEMONIC NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN NOTNS OF TE RELIGSY. IT IS NOT WOVEN TO “RELIGN” THAT GOD’S IMAGE REQUIR REJECTN OF TRANS DIVIDUALS’ FULL SELV. THAT IS A CHOICE, AN TERPRETATN OF SOME RELIGNS OR OF SOME WHO LL THEMSELV RELIG. OTHER RELIGNS, OTHER RELIG PERSONS, HAVE A DIFFERENT TERPRETATN OF HOW TO RPECT AND DIGNIFY THE FACET OF GOD THAT IS EVERY ONE OF .VIA THE DEBATE LK UNBIDN-YIDNFOLLOWI’VE HEARD A SIAR ARGUMENT OM PROGRSIVE CHRISTIANS, AND SO THIS REGRSIVE VIEW IS NO WAY REQUIRED ORR TO BE A VOUT CHRISTIAN, EHER. IF YOU ARE CISGENR AND A VOUT PROGRSIVE CHRISTIAN: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT PLACE TO ASSERT BOTH OF THOSE PRIVILEG ORR TO PH BACK ON THIS REGRSIVE PUBLIC RHETORIC. PENROSUNFOLLOWSTORY TIME:IN LLEGE, I WAS CLOSE IENDS WH A HAREDI STUNT AT MY UNIVERSY. THIS MAN WAS EPLY RELIG, AND NOT TO PUT TO FE A POT ON , EPLY NSERVATIVE. HE’D EXPRSED WHAT I THK MOST PEOPLE WOULD CHARACTERIZE FAIRLY HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS BEFORE, OPENLY, SUATNS WHERE HE RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL PH BACK, CLUDG OM OTHER ORTHODOX AND HAREDI JEWS ON MP, AND HE’D ROLUTELY STOOD HIS GROUND ON THE THGS.AT THE TIME, I WAS NOT OUT TO EVERYONE, AND WE HAD A LOT MON AND GOT ON EXTREMELY WELL, JT SO LONG AS WE NEVER EVER EVER TOUCHED ON ANY TOPIC EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO POLIL ANYTHG. WE STUDIED TALMUD TOGETHER BRIEFLY, AND WE’D REGULARLY ANIZE SHABBAT BOARD GAME GROUPS TOGETHER, AND WE POOLED ROURC TO ENSURE THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS PICKLED HERRG AT THE LOL MYAN’S KIDDH, SCE WE BOTH LOVED AND WERE HEARTBROKEN THAT SO FEW OTHER STUNTS OUR AGE DID THAT THE MYAN HAD STOPPED GETTG . AND FOR YEARS, I KNEW: WHEN THIS GUY GRADUATED, I WAS GOG TO TELL HIM WHO I WAS - BEE I RED ABOUT HIM AS A IEND AND FELT I OWED HIM THAT - AND THEN WE’D NEVER SPEAK AGA, AND OUR IENDSHIP WOULD BE OVER.ON THE LAST SHABBAT BEFORE HIS GRADUATN, I ME OUT TO HIM, AND HE SAT VERY QUIETLY AND LISTENED… AND THEN HE SAID SOMETHG WHICH TLY SHOCKED ME TO MY RE. HE ASKED ME IF I TEND TO MEDILLY TRANSN. I SAID THAT I WASN’T SURE – THAT THERE WERE RISKS, AND STS, AND PRACTIL NCERNS, AND THAT, SURE, IF SOMEONE ULD JT WAVE A MAGIC WAND AND GIVE ME THE BODY THAT MATCHED MY GENR STANTLY AND PALSLY AND FOR EE, I’D WANT THAT, BUT THAT THAT WAS OF URSE IMPOSSIBLE. AND THIS HAREDI MAN – WHO I HAD HEARD REFER TO THE RABOW FLAG AS “A SYMBOL OF IMMORALY”, WHO I HAD HEARD SAY TO A QUEER RABBI GUT SPEAKER’S FACE THAT HE THOUGHT THAT GAY MEN SHOULD REMA CELIBATE FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIV – HE LOOKED AT ME, VERY SERLY, AND SAID WH ZERO HATN AT ALL, “HOW N YOU SAY THAT? OF URSE S POSSIBLE – OLAM HABA.” AND THEN HE PROCEED TO TELL ME ABOUT A PIECE OF TALMUD HE HAD STUDIED JT A MONTH OR SO BEFORE, WHICH THERE WAS THE QUTN OF WHETHER AN OLD MAN WHO FELT THAT HIS BT LIFE AND MOST TE INTY WAS THE YEARS HE HAD LIVED AS AN OLD MAN WOULD BE RTORED TO HIS YOUTH OLAM HABA – AND HOW THAT RABBIS HAD NCLUD THAT SUCH A CIRCUMSTANCE, HE WOULD NOT BE, BEE YOUTH WOULD NOT BE AN IAL FORM TO HIM. AND HE TOLD ME – AD SERLY, THE SORT OF SERNS YOU ONLY EVER SEE OM SOMEONE WHO BELIEV THE WORLD TO COME WH TLY UNSHAKG VOTN – THAT SCE I KNEW I WAS A MAN, THAT ULD ONLY MEAN THAT HASHEM HAD CREATED ME AS A MAN, AND THAT THAT WAS MY TE AND IAL SELF, AND THEREFORE THAT THE ONLY POSSIBLE FORM THAT ULD BE WAG FOR ME OLAM HABA MT BE A MALE ONE – THAT THE CIRCUMSTANC WHICH LED TO HASHEM GIVG ME THE BODY WHICH I HAD THIS LIFE WERE BEYOND HIS ABILY TO REASON, BUT THAT HE WAS SURE THAT MT BE A REASON PARTICULAR TO MY LIFE AND MY SOUL, BEE HASHEM WAS NEVER WRONG.WE DID EVENTUALLY FALL OUT OF TOUCH, PART BEE WE STILL HAD A LOT OF PRETTY IRRENCILABLE POLIL BELIEFS, AND OVER TIME, THAT GULF GREW TOO BIG TO IGNORE. BUT THAT WAS THE DAY THAT I STOPPED PUTTG UP WH PEOPLE WHO REJECTED MY GENR INTY ON THE BASIS OF “RELIG BELIEFS”, FOR GOOD. BEE IF THIS MAN WHO WAS ON THE FAR RIGHT WG END OF THE RELIG/POLIL SPECTM ULD UNRSTAND THAT HASHEM DO NOT MAKE MISTAK AND THAT MY GENR INTY WAS THE IMAGE OF THE DIVE, THEN WHAT WAS SOME RANDOM “GO TO CHURCH TO JUDGE HER NEIGHBOR” CHRISTIAN BYBODY’S EXCE? IF HE ULD SEE , SO ULD THEY – AND I HAD NO REASON AT ALL TO RPECT THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE NOT TO.JEWISH-LGBTQSCMPSTERSCMPSTERFOLLOWLGBTQ+ JEWISH ROURC AND ORGANIZATNS
• LEVISQUEAKS — THIS PROUD GAY JEW WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A...
• GAY OR JEWISH?
• RABOW JEWS ‘BEG JEWISH & GAY - NOW AND THEN’ (PART 2)

IN THE IMAGE OF GODA RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT JEWS ARE THE MOGRAPHIC GROUP MOST ACCEPTG OF TRANS DIVIDUALS THE UNED STAT.WHEN CERTA CHRISTIANS ASSERT A RELIG EEDOM RIGHT TO DISCRIMATE AGAST TRANS DIVIDUALS – PARTICULARLY, A RIGHT TO MISGENR THEM – THEIR ARGUMENT TYPILLY PROCEEDS SOMETHG ALONG THE L:1. THEY BELIEVE EVERY DIVIDUAL IS CREATED THE IMAGE OF GOD.2. PART OF THAT IMAGE IS THE PERSON’S SEX (AND BY EXTENSN, GENR).3. IN PARTICULAR, A PERSON’S SEX/GENR IS ALTERABLY ASSIGNED BY GOD OM NCEPTN.4. THEY ARE FORBIDN OM LYG OR FALSIFYG GOD’S CHOICE.THEREFORE, THEY SAY, THEY ARE RELIGLY OBLIGATED TO REFER TO PEOPLE BY THEIR CHROMOSOMAL SEX, REGARDLS OF HOW THEY INTIFY OR PUBLICLY PRENT. THIS RELIG DUTY, TURN, IS ED TO PRS AGAST L AND POLICI WHICH REQUIRE RPECTFUL TREATMENT OF TRANS DIVIDUALS (CLUDG REAG OM LIBERATELY MISGENRG THEM, ADNAMG THEM, AND SO ON).WHAT’S TERTG ABOUT THIS AMEWORK IS THAT A LOT OF ACTUALLY RONAT WH HOW I VIEW THE RELATNSHIP OF MY JEWISH FAH AND TRANS DIVIDUALS – WH SOME CCIAL ALTERATNS. TO W:1. I BELIEVE EVERY DIVIDUAL IS CREATE THE IMAGE OF GOD.2.  PART OF THAT IMAGE IS THE PERSON’S SEX (AND BY EXTENSN, GENR).4. I AM FORBIDN OM LYG OR FALSIFYG GOD’S CHOICE.THE MAJOR DISTCTN, OF URSE, PRONG 3:3. A PERSON’S SEX/GENR IS NOT NECSARILY OR ALTERABLY ASSIGNED BY GOD OM NCEPTN, BUT RATHER N BE PART OF A PERSON’S OWN PROCS OF DISVERG WHO THEY ARE. WHERE SUCH SELF-DISVERY LEADS TO A PERSON TO NCLU THEY ARE TRANS, NON-BARY, OR ANY OTHER INTY THAT PARTS OM THE SEX THEY WERE ASSIGNED AT BIRTH, THEY ARE NOT VIATG OM GOD’S PLAN. THEY ARE UNVERG THEIR THENTIC SELF AS GOD HAS CREATED THEM. THE RULT OF THIS PROCS IS PART OF GOD’S IMAGE. THOSE WHO REFE TO ACCEPT ARE NOT CLEAVG TO GOD’S IMAGE, THEY ARE REJECTG .GOD’S PROCS OF CREATN IS NOT, MY UNRSTANDG OF JUDAISM, A SET-AND-FET SORT OF AL. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF PASSIVELY BEG PUPPETEERED BY A DIVE HAND. IT SOMETHG WE DO TOGETHER – WE ARE PARTNERS CREATN. TO NY THE RULTS OF THAT PARTNERSHIP IS, FOR ME, A NIAL OF GOD’S PLAN AND PRACTICE JT AS MUCH AS IS FOR ADHERENTS OF OTHER RELIG VIEWS WHO ADHERE TO A MORE STATIC AND LCIFIED NOTN OF THE ROLE OF THE DIVE.AND SO FOR ME, AND I SPECT FOR MANY JEWS, THE RELIG EEDOM OBLIGATN PH THE OTHER DIRECTN. MANY NSERVATIVE STAT HAVE, OR ARE NSIRG, LAWS WHICH REQUIRE (AT LEAST CERTA NTEXTS) NON-REGNN OF TRANS INTY. FOR JEWS (AND OTHERS) WHO SHARE MY RELIG PRECEPTS, THE LAWS WOULD FORCE ME TO NY – TO BEAR FALSE WNS TO – A KEY ATTRIBUTE OF HOW GOD CREATED SOME OF MY PEERS. I DO NOT BELIEVE – AND THIS IS A EP, FUNDAMENTAL MMENT – THAT GOD’S “IMAGE” OF TRANS PERSONS WAS FOR THEM TO BE LOCKED A BODY OR SEX OR GENR INTY THAT CLEARLY IS NOT THENTILLY THEIRS. WHEN THEY FD THEIR FULL SELF, THEY ARE EQUALLY FDG GOD’S IMAGE OF THEMSELV.CONSISTENT WH MY LENGTHILY EXPRSED FEELGS ON THE SUBJECT, I SPECT THAT WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE WILL NOT BE GOOD FOR THE GANR. DPE THE CLEAR PARALLEL, LIBERAL JEWS WHO ASSERT RELIG LIBERTY RIGHTS TO BE EXEMPTED OM LAWS SEEKG TO ENFORCE BY STATE MANDATE A TRANSPHOBIC AGENDA WILL NOT MEET WH THE SAME SUCCS ENJOYED BY THEIR CHRISTIAN PEERS.NOHELS, THERE IS VALUE PROMOTG THIS SORT OF AMEWORK, AND UNASHAMEDLY ASSERTG JEWISH PENNCE OM HEGEMONIC NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN NOTNS OF TE RELIGSY. IT IS NOT WOVEN TO “RELIGN” THAT GOD’S IMAGE REQUIR REJECTN OF TRANS DIVIDUALS’ FULL SELV. THAT IS A CHOICE, AN TERPRETATN OF SOME RELIGNS OR OF SOME WHO LL THEMSELV RELIG. OTHER RELIGNS, OTHER RELIG PERSONS, HAVE A DIFFERENT TERPRETATN OF HOW TO RPECT AND DIGNIFY THE FACET OF GOD THAT IS EVERY ONE OF .VIA THE DEBATE LK UNBIDN-YIDNFOLLOWI’VE HEARD A SIAR ARGUMENT OM PROGRSIVE CHRISTIANS, AND SO THIS REGRSIVE VIEW IS NO WAY REQUIRED ORR TO BE A VOUT CHRISTIAN, EHER. IF YOU ARE CISGENR AND A VOUT PROGRSIVE CHRISTIAN: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT PLACE TO ASSERT BOTH OF THOSE PRIVILEG ORR TO PH BACK ON THIS REGRSIVE PUBLIC RHETORIC. PENROSUNFOLLOWSTORY TIME:IN LLEGE, I WAS CLOSE IENDS WH A HAREDI STUNT AT MY UNIVERSY. THIS MAN WAS EPLY RELIG, AND NOT TO PUT TO FE A POT ON , EPLY NSERVATIVE. HE’D EXPRSED WHAT I THK MOST PEOPLE WOULD CHARACTERIZE FAIRLY HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS BEFORE, OPENLY, SUATNS WHERE HE RECEIVED SUBSTANTIAL PH BACK, CLUDG OM OTHER ORTHODOX AND HAREDI JEWS ON MP, AND HE’D ROLUTELY STOOD HIS GROUND ON THE THGS.AT THE TIME, I WAS NOT OUT TO EVERYONE, AND WE HAD A LOT MON AND GOT ON EXTREMELY WELL, JT SO LONG AS WE NEVER EVER EVER TOUCHED ON ANY TOPIC EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO POLIL ANYTHG. WE STUDIED TALMUD TOGETHER BRIEFLY, AND WE’D REGULARLY ANIZE SHABBAT BOARD GAME GROUPS TOGETHER, AND WE POOLED ROURC TO ENSURE THAT THERE WAS ALWAYS PICKLED HERRG AT THE LOL MYAN’S KIDDH, SCE WE BOTH LOVED AND WERE HEARTBROKEN THAT SO FEW OTHER STUNTS OUR AGE DID THAT THE MYAN HAD STOPPED GETTG . AND FOR YEARS, I KNEW: WHEN THIS GUY GRADUATED, I WAS GOG TO TELL HIM WHO I WAS - BEE I RED ABOUT HIM AS A IEND AND FELT I OWED HIM THAT - AND THEN WE’D NEVER SPEAK AGA, AND OUR IENDSHIP WOULD BE OVER.ON THE LAST SHABBAT BEFORE HIS GRADUATN, I ME OUT TO HIM, AND HE SAT VERY QUIETLY AND LISTENED… AND THEN HE SAID SOMETHG WHICH TLY SHOCKED ME TO MY RE. HE ASKED ME IF I TEND TO MEDILLY TRANSN. I SAID THAT I WASN’T SURE – THAT THERE WERE RISKS, AND STS, AND PRACTIL NCERNS, AND THAT, SURE, IF SOMEONE ULD JT WAVE A MAGIC WAND AND GIVE ME THE BODY THAT MATCHED MY GENR STANTLY AND PALSLY AND FOR EE, I’D WANT THAT, BUT THAT THAT WAS OF URSE IMPOSSIBLE. AND THIS HAREDI MAN – WHO I HAD HEARD REFER TO THE RABOW FLAG AS “A SYMBOL OF IMMORALY”, WHO I HAD HEARD SAY TO A QUEER RABBI GUT SPEAKER’S FACE THAT HE THOUGHT THAT GAY MEN SHOULD REMA CELIBATE FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIV – HE LOOKED AT ME, VERY SERLY, AND SAID WH ZERO HATN AT ALL, “HOW N YOU SAY THAT? OF URSE S POSSIBLE – OLAM HABA.” AND THEN HE PROCEED TO TELL ME ABOUT A PIECE OF TALMUD HE HAD STUDIED JT A MONTH OR SO BEFORE, WHICH THERE WAS THE QUTN OF WHETHER AN OLD MAN WHO FELT THAT HIS BT LIFE AND MOST TE INTY WAS THE YEARS HE HAD LIVED AS AN OLD MAN WOULD BE RTORED TO HIS YOUTH OLAM HABA – AND HOW THAT RABBIS HAD NCLUD THAT SUCH A CIRCUMSTANCE, HE WOULD NOT BE, BEE YOUTH WOULD NOT BE AN IAL FORM TO HIM. AND HE TOLD ME – AD SERLY, THE SORT OF SERNS YOU ONLY EVER SEE OM SOMEONE WHO BELIEV THE WORLD TO COME WH TLY UNSHAKG VOTN – THAT SCE I KNEW I WAS A MAN, THAT ULD ONLY MEAN THAT HASHEM HAD CREATED ME AS A MAN, AND THAT THAT WAS MY TE AND IAL SELF, AND THEREFORE THAT THE ONLY POSSIBLE FORM THAT ULD BE WAG FOR ME OLAM HABA MT BE A MALE ONE – THAT THE CIRCUMSTANC WHICH LED TO HASHEM GIVG ME THE BODY WHICH I HAD THIS LIFE WERE BEYOND HIS ABILY TO REASON, BUT THAT HE WAS SURE THAT MT BE A REASON PARTICULAR TO MY LIFE AND MY SOUL, BEE HASHEM WAS NEVER WRONG.WE DID EVENTUALLY FALL OUT OF TOUCH, PART BEE WE STILL HAD A LOT OF PRETTY IRRENCILABLE POLIL BELIEFS, AND OVER TIME, THAT GULF GREW TOO BIG TO IGNORE. BUT THAT WAS THE DAY THAT I STOPPED PUTTG UP WH PEOPLE WHO REJECTED MY GENR INTY ON THE BASIS OF “RELIG BELIEFS”, FOR GOOD. BEE IF THIS MAN WHO WAS ON THE FAR RIGHT WG END OF THE RELIG/POLIL SPECTM ULD UNRSTAND THAT HASHEM DO NOT MAKE MISTAK AND THAT MY GENR INTY WAS THE IMAGE OF THE DIVE, THEN WHAT WAS SOME RANDOM “GO TO CHURCH TO JUDGE HER NEIGHBOR” CHRISTIAN BYBODY’S EXCE? IF HE ULD SEE , SO ULD THEY – AND I HAD NO REASON AT ALL TO RPECT THEIR PERSONAL CHOICE NOT TO.JEWISH-LGBTQSCMPSTERSCMPSTERFOLLOWLGBTQ+ JEWISH ROURC AND ORGANIZATNS

wtymee-blog Animals, Feet, The Gays, Jews? He’d exprsed what I thk most people would characterize fairly homophobic views before, openly, suatns where he received substantial ph back, cludg om other Orthodox and Haredi Jews on mp, and he’d rolutely stood his ground on the the time, I was not out to everyone, and we had a lot mon and got on extremely well, jt so long as we never ever ever touched on any topic even remotely close to polil anythg.

LEVISQUEAKS — THIS PROUD GAY JEW WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A...

And this Haredi man – who I had heard refer to the rabow flag as “a symbol of immoraly”, who I had heard say to a queer rabbi gut speaker’s face that he thought that gay men should rema celibate for their entire liv – he looked at me, very serly, and said wh zero hatn at all, “how n you say that?

Arnold Roth, who is both gay and Jewish, first appears Capta Ameri #270 (June, 1982), created by J. ALTThis was the early days of the AIDS crisis and durg Ronald Reagan’s admistratn, if you know anythg about this era you know what a dark time was for the LGBT+ muny, particularly gay men, at every to extreme censorship targetg LGBT+ ntent at the time, the word ‘gay’ is never ed.

GAY OR JEWISH?

If you are faiar wh how creativ snuck around the rtrictns, is very clear that not only is Arnie gay but he and Michael are a mted and lovg long-term relatnship.

RABOW JEWS ‘BEG JEWISH & GAY - NOW AND THEN’ (PART 2)

Sce then, DeMatteis’ has exprsly stated that Arnie is ed gay and was always wrten such. This was a mon experience for gay men at the time, and is still happeng even today, even progrsive areas, spe the stris we have ma phg for equaly. ALTThis enunter along wh the rcue of Michael marks the rekdlg of Steve and Arnie’s childhood iendship, which would ntue until Arnie’s ath om termal ncer Capta Ameri Vol 1 #443 (September, 1995) to the fact Arnie is gay and Jewish as well as a close iend of Capta Ameri, throughout his time the ics he be a equent target for the lik of Zola and Zemo.

ALTALTIt is an arc that would explore loss of a long-term partner, grief, guilt, homophobia, antisemism and the lengths we will go to protect those we love.

In the ics we n fd many parallels that directly mirror aspects of Bucky’s arc ways that his ic unterpart’s story Eileen Gonzalez (BookRt) says of Arnie and Michael’s love story:…for what ltle time we see them together, they are prented as a down-to-earth, voted uple whout even a whiff of the stereotyp that still dictated how gay men were portrayed. Consirg they were created 1982, that’s pretty darn addnal readg:LGBT History In Mastream Comics: A History Part 2 | The Mary SueRememberg Capta Ameri’s Fotten Gay Bt Friend ()Capta Ameri #270 (June 1982) – THE VIRTUES OF CAPTAIN AMERICAArnie Roth – GAY LEAGUEYou’re My Bt Friend – GAY LEAGUEArnold Roth (Capta Ameri character) ()Marvel’s First Gay Couple, Arnie and Michael: A Love Story ()image ID provid by the wonrful @magothemagnificent alt text and this reblog. Jewish Bucky Rourcmarvelmcteve rogerssteven grant rogersbuckybucky barnjam bucky barnjam buchanan barnarnie rotharnold rothmichael bechicsmarvel icsic historyqueer historypri monthlgbtlgbt+queergaylong post.

Over 500 gay Jews (and those who love them) partied the night away at Serlic, the Passover Party, prented by saw Pharoah and Mos rne and drk MAN-ischewz all night long on Saturday at New York's Hudson Terrace. Get to know more about the group for gay Jews, Hebro, here. Anonymo asked: Confsn - as a gay Jew, I've personally experienced WAY more antisemism than homophobia.

LeviSqueaks — This proud gay Jew would like to wish everyone a... Very surprisgly, JEWISH and not GAY. GAY.

femaleprofil:this quarante got me feelg like le’s guy walker… trapped on dagobah wh that gay ltle og, help LOL!

ॐgay jew daddy nim enthiast om ny.