Faith and religion

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Faith and Religion, some useful links

Humanism: Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) http://www.galha.org/

Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain BM Box 1919 London WC1N 3XX e-mail: exmuslimcouncil@googlemail.com telephone: +44 (0) 7719166731 http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/

Secular Judaism http://www.interfaithfamily.com/resource_pages/Secular_Judaism_Resource_Page.shtml

Judiasm The Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group http://www.jglg.org.uk/ Snail Mail: BM JGLG, London, England, WC1N 3XX Telephone: +44 (0)7504 924742 Email Addresses: General information about the group: info@jglg.org.uk UK Student LGBTQ group: bagels@ujs.org.uk

Beit Klal Yisrael http://www.beit-klal-yisrael.org.uk/

The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London,E2 6HG, Tel / Fax 020 7739 1249 e-mail lgcm@lgcm.org.uk

Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship (QLGF) http://www.qlgf.org.uk/ Ruth W, 46 The Avenue, Starbeck, Harrogate, HG1 4QD email qlgfcontact@btclick.com

Quest Organisation for lesbian and gay Catholics in the UK http://www.questgaycatholic.org.uk

AXIOS Eastern and Orthodox Gay and Lesbian Christians http://www.eskimo.com/~nickz/axios.html

Islam Al-Fatiha Muslims of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning or exploring their sexual orientation and/or gender identity (LGBTIQQ), and their families, friends and allies. http://www.al-fatiha.org/

IMAAN UK LGBT Muslim http://www.imaan.org.uk/ 28 Commercial Street London E1 6LS Email info@imaan.org.uk Phone 07849 170793

Huriyah http://huriyahmag.com/ queer muslim magazine

Safra Project http://www.safraproject.org/ Muslim LBT women

Queer Jihad http://www.well.com/user/queerjhd/ the queer Muslim struggle for acceptance:

Bi Muslims http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BiMuslims/

Bahai Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Trans and Questioning Baha'is http://gaybahai.homestead.com/

Shomronim Hard to find and not in UK. Some discussion at: http://www.jewlicious.com/2005/04/conservative-movements-big-gay-issue/

Rastafari Not much I can usefully find. Some discussion / articles at: http://forums.rasta-man.co.uk/smf/index.php?action=printpage;topic=5152.0 http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?STORY_ID=4003&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=7 http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/031103_lesbian_gay_jamaica.html also Bisexual singer SINEAD O'CONNOR has become a Rastafarian (2007) http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/oconnor-i-am-a-rastafarian-despite-anti-gay-views_1033252

Mandaeism Haven't found anything. Some links to discussion of heresies at http://www.experiencefestival.com/mandaeism

Druze http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GayDruze/ Druze who are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Curious, Flaming or Closeted

Hindu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_topics_and_Hinduism http://www.gayhindu.com/ Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association http://www.galva108.org/index.html Hinduism does not condemn gay people http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/02/gay-rights-india

Sikh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_topics_and_Sikhism for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Sikhs http://www.sarbat.net/ Homosexuality and Sikhism - by Jasbir Singh http://fateh.sikhnet.com/Sikhnet/discussion.nsf/0/96A591617142464C87256F9E00588844!OpenDocument http://www.afterellen.com/node/31176 http://www.queeryouth.org.uk/community/index.php?act=Issues&CODE=83&ISSUE=Sikhism

Jain Can't find much yet. This might well be useful to look at in Leicester. Sweet, Michael and Zwilling, Leonard "`Like a city ablaze': The third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature", Journal of the History of Sexuality, 6, 3 (1996), 359-84.

Unitarian I don't see a separate LGBT section http://www.uua.org/visitors/justicediversity/6252.shtml seems closest http://www.ukunitarians.org.uk/pulse/ http://www.brightonunitarian.org.uk/ceremonies/gayceremonies.html

Yazdânism Can't find anything useful

Buddhism http://www.sgi-uk.org/ http://gaybuddhist.org/v2/ http://www.gaybuddhistsangha.com/

zoroastrianism http://www.zoroastrianism.cc/discussions_9.html

Pagan Gay_Pagans_UK · L,G,B,T Pagan - UK and Ireland http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gay_Pagans_UK/

Queer Pagan Camp http://www.queerpagancamp.org/ info@queerpagancamp.org

Albion Faeries http://www.albionfaeries.co.uk/ FaerieUK@googlemail.com a network of queer healers, magicians, artists, performers and prophets

Religion, Youth and Spirituality project: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/rys rys@nottingham.ac.uk 0115 8232444 You are eligible to participate in this project if you: Are aged between 18 and 25 Define yourself as Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist, or a combination of these Live in the UK We welcome you to participate in this project if you meet the three criteria above, regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, relationship status (e.g. single or partnered), and sexual practice (e.g. celibate or sexually active).

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues from religioustolerance.org http://www.religioustolerance.org/homosexu.htm see particularly: http://www.religioustolerance.org/bisexuality.htm

London Lesbian & Gay Spirituality Group The group meets on alternate Tuesday evenings. Each event will be advertised separately with themes such as intimacy, meditation and transpersonal development on the agenda. Email: bmooney40@yahoo.co.uk

Sea of Faith Network "Exploring and promoting religious faith as a human creation..." http://www.sofn.org.uk/ enquiries@sofn.org.uk

Stonewall Faith and religion Love Thy Neighbour: What people of faith really think of homosexuality (2008) http://www.stonewall.org.uk/documents/love_thy_neighbour.pdf Living Together: British attitudes towards lesbian and gay people. (2007) http://www.stonewall.org.uk/documents/living_together.pdf Stonewall has produced a report on the attitudes people of faith have towards lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Love Thy Neighbour found that many people of faith have positive attitudes towards gay people. This is supported by the findings of Living Together which found that the majority of people of faith support sexual orientation equality. Other research that has been conducted on the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people of faith include: Spirituality and sexual orientation: relationship to mental well-being and functional health status, Coleman (2003) A Minority Within A Minority: British Non-Heterosexual Muslims, Yip

List of Gay Spiritual groups http://www.gmfa.org.uk/theguide/cultural-groups/spiritual