Jesus Loves You! Not to be used as a flotation device.

In an on-going series of Jesus Loves You Twitter/Facebook status updates, I thought it was time to compile the most recent offerings. I average about five of these per week, and get plenty of suggestions from folks.  In this most current batch I drew on hymns and praise songs for some of my inspiration. You [...]

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Boys in Pink Dresses & Ex-Gay Queer Lectures

These are some of my favorite things!
My Friend Oliver Danni sent a link to a gorgeous article about a four-year-old boy who told his mom he wanted a pink dress, not for playing dress-up, but to wear to school. Sarah Hoffman writes,
At 4, Sam has been expressing his preference for pink for half his life. [...]

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A Transgender Singer & a Gay Jew for Jesus Walk into a Church…

Some of you know about Marvin Bloom from this very blog. Marvin has a long and complicated story. He is a Long Island Jew for Jesus and for some time had lived as an ex-gay, trying desperately to de-gay himself. After many trials and tribulations (including a stint in the Homo No Mo Halfway House) [...]

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Mischief and Magic

In this last month I have bopped around the US landing in PA, GA, NC, TN, MD,DC, IL (for a brief layover) and AZ! My body has finally landed home. I expect that like errant luggage, my soul will show up in a day or two just in time for my trip to Indiana starting [...]

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Ex-Gay Treatment–Doin’ it for Jesus???

Yes, yes, yes, I know I have been negligent in my blogging duties. Just too darn busy at the moment. Let’s see It’s been almost two weeks, and I have been in Selinsgrove, PA (with my honey), Atlanta, GA, Highlands, NC, Nashville, TN, Cookeville, TN, Chattanooga, MD and today I am in Baltimore (Towson State [...]

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Christian and lesbian, transgender, bisexual, queer in Memphis

Having lived in Memphis, TN for five years (two of those in the Love in Action–[LIA] gay 2 straight gulag) I know Memphians make up a vibrant LGBTQ community. Thanks to the folks at Integrity, Holy Trinity, the Gay and Lesbia n Community Center, BGALA at U of Memphis, and then the amazing Queer Action [...]

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Ex-Gay Survivors–Christian, Post-Christian & Beyond

Since first connecting with ex-gay survivors in 2003, I grew to understand that many of us come down on one side or another of what would seem to be a great and even potentially combative divide. While many ex-gay survivors come from Protestant Evangelical Christian traditions (but by no means all–we have also been in [...]

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Transgender on the Radio

About an hour ago I stepped out of the studios of WNPR, the Hartford local public radio stations, where I appeared on the Where We Live program to talk about transgender Bible characters as they appear in my play Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible. Also on the show performance artist Scott Turner Schofield spoke about [...]

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Transgender and Christian: Finding Identity

I recently wrote about David Weekley, a minister in the United Methodist Church who came out to his congregations as a trans man (Female to Male FtM transsexual) and received a delicious reception from church members.
Today Jori Lewis writes about Trangfender faith identities over at Religion Dispatches. In her piece she highlights the stories [...]

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Good News

The following is intended to be read aloud.
Good News. She didn’t even charge me for desert. Good News. Salim found the goat. Good News. I found it under the backseat, oh, and this too. Good News. I was able to salvage the carburetor. Good News. She fired me. Good News. He’s fine; thank God the [...]

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Ex-Gay-related studies of note

Joe Moderate reports that Mark Yarhouse, the c0-creator of a controversial and widely debunked study on ex-gays, has begun work in his new creation.
Regent University professor Mark Yarhouse, co-author of the recent Intervarsity book Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation, is apparently conducting a study of mixed-orientation marriages.
Considering how the [...]

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Job of the Week–stirring up trouble on stage and as a Public Friend

Recently the UK-based website Ideas Tap interviewed me for their on-line magazine featuring me in their Job of the Week section. They were especially interested in potentially controversial aspects of my work as a queer theatrical performance activist.
People often ask me if I run into problems/opposition when I perform my plays. Really I rarely do, [...]

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