Story Type: LGBTQ+ Story
Living their truth, despite the challenges, Pride blossoms in Vietnam
Vietnam held the country’s first Pride Month parade in 2012, in the capital, Hanoi. Since its inception, Pride Month celebrations have expanded to more than 30 cities and provinces.
Pride in the Philippines is a celebration of acceptance
The Philippines observes Pride Month with a spirit of tolerance and acceptance, amid widespread efforts to promote awareness of discrimination, in which the mainstream media plays a vital role.
Pride & learning: Gender definitions aren’t black & white
Understanding that gender occurs over a spectrum calls us to a more inclusive approach that respects each person’s dignity and rights.
Living with Pride in Honduras: A celebration and a call for justice
Pride month in Honduras, beyond the celebration, remains an act of resistance, remembrance and demand for change. The LGBTIQ+ community continues to fight to live with dignity and freedom and without fear in a country that still owes them justice and full recognition.
With personal stories & hard questions, book builds bridges of understanding
“Cornerstones: Sacred Stories of LGBTQ+ Employees in Catholic Institutions,” edited by Ish Ruiz and Mark Guevarra and published last year by New Ways Ministry, is an anthology of personal narratives.
The Queer Lens is Expansive and Serves All
As They Are
Call to Inclusive Love and Abundant Justice
The value of interrelationship
By Sister Estela Gomez — “Centered in God and the Spirit of Catherine McAuley, what critical conversations and collective responses are we invited to explore now?” We Sisters of Mercy are currently reflecting on this question as we prepare to gather in the spring for our next direction-setting meeting. At a similar meeting in 2017, we committed to engagement in education and dialogue around the subject of gender identity and sexual orientation. The question before us now invites us to consider the challenges more deeply, beyond what we’ve already been doing.
Finding community in Mercy as Catholic and LGBTQ+
By Carolyn Shalhoub, Mercy Associate — In 2017, at a direction-setting international meeting, the Sisters of Mercy committed to education and engaged dialogue on gender identity and sexual orientation. How farsighted it was for the sisters to set out on this particular journey. Catherine McAuley would be proud.
Embracing LGBTQ+ Education and Dialogue With Mercy
By Sister Eileen Campbell — Ever since I can remember in any of my ministries, I’ve known LGBTQ+ people who are alienated from and harmed by our church and society. They have been deeply traumatized, and unable to be who they are without judgment, alienation and cruelty. It should go without saying that people who are being true to who they are as LGBTQ+ individuals shouldn’t be subjected to such treatment in any part of our society, let alone our church, but they are and their pain cries out for healing.