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Thank you, President Jones

Nov 6th, 2010
by Atticus Zavaletta.
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Thank you for your contribution to Project Union Responds.  You were the first to answer to our call for a Christian witness to LGBTQ youth–and your involvement as the leader of our community was crucial.  Without knowing it, you inspired us and galvanized a whole community into action–straight people, genderqueer people, queer straight people, lesbians, [...]

A Love that Would Not Let Me Go

Oct 17th, 2010
by arb.
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When we tell our stories, we are transformed. When others hear our stories, they are transformed. The story telling for Project Union Responds stirred up the Union community. We were stirred up because sharing our stories was an action of liberation, affirmation, by re-claiming our selves, our bodies, and our faiths. We were stirred up because sharing our stories required us to reflect [...]

Union Responds to LGBTQ Youth Suicides

Oct 13th, 2010
by Stephanie Stovall.
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When we heard about the death of Tyler Clementi, the most recent in a string of queer youth suicides (a list which gets much longer if we take into account all of the queer suicides that we don’t hear about) we asked ourselves whether there might have been something–some act, some word–that could stop other [...]

Immoral Acquiescence

Feb 1st, 2010
by Derrick McQueen.
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As the military speaks of how to dismantle the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Policy in regards to gays in the military, I am hit by the profundity of the policy itself. Basically, people willing to lay their lives on the line have been asked to lie about their true understanding of self. So now there [...]

How did I get this way?

Nov 6th, 2009
by Derrick McQueen.
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I guess it’s time.  As a member of the Queer community already, it is time to come out of the other closet: I am a preacher.  It wasn’t something I chose.  I was just born this way.  My partner, Preaching, and I have been in a committed relationship for quite some time now.  We live [...]