EDGE Los Angeles

With the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, some in the LGBT community expressed the hope that the Church would engage in a meaningful conversation about LGBT rights. Others aren’t as optimistic.

Groups, such as Nehirim, continue to offer support, educational and social opportunities for LGBT people of faith, but long-simmering tensions between religious organizations and activists remain.

A coalition of clergy, elected officials and representatives from HIV/AIDS service organizations launched the Interfaith for HIV/AIDS: A Call to Take Action in 2009 on the steps of City Hall on July 8.

Religion: a checklist of beliefs and behaviors dictated from the top? Or a process of learning that challenges both our notion of god, and of ourselves, on an ongoing basis?

As LGBT Chicagoans begin to partake in the bounty of events that is Pride month, congregations across the city continue to offer participants numerous opportunities to explore their faith and spirituality.