The LGBTQ Baha'i Experience

11/13/2025

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Explore your q***r spiritual journey during a special webinar featuring Raja Gopal Bhattar, PhD, whose new book, "Queering Constellations: Mapping This Journey Called Life," draws on his Hindu and Buddhist background to guide people of all faiths through their search for identity and divine connection. Join us Nov. 19 at 8 pm Eastern by signing up on our website with the word "/lotus."

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

11/10/2025

BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Nov. 10 decided not to revisit its landmark ruling that legalized same-s*x marriage nationwide, leaving undisturbed a decade old decision that some conservative justices oppose but that LGBTQ+ couples have relied on to legalize their relationships and create families.

11/06/2025

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My greatest revenge on my relatives who won't accept my q***rness? Education.

For the past couple of years, I've been holding grief that sometimes breaks me to pieces.

Each wave of grief that surges through my body, I'm constantly met with: should I transmit this or transmute this?

This Toolkit is my pain transmuting into beauty--something helpful that could guide others to show up with love for their Two Spirit and/or IndigiQueer kin.

I created one last year, and this one is more elevated, with more hands-on tools and in-depth reflection to guide you from simple awareness to love in motion.

My PhD was focused on creating a safe space for Two Spirit and IndigiQueer students in school, and I wanted to create something accessible for the public, aside from my dissertation.

I put so much love into this Toolkit.

And it is my hope that it will help undo what colonialism did. Colonialism erased q***r and Two Spirit people from our stories, and with them, the memory of how deeply we were loved before shame was taught.

It is Land-based, somatic-based, and relational-based--the three things that are important to my work and my life.

You can purchase and learn more about it here:

https://relentlessindigenouswoman.ca/products/two-spirit-indigiq***r-toolkit-for-family-friends-and-allies

If you're interested in having institutional access, email [email protected]

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Who knows, maybe some of my relatives will go through this toolkit and have an epiphany. But until then, I'll offer it to other family members, friends, and allies who want to show up for their Two Spirit and IndigiQueer kin in the best way possible

10/28/2025

LGBTQ Baha’is have historically been given a fake promise that the Baha’i Administration would adjust their anti LGBTQ policies once science provided proof that being same s*x attracted was a normal occurrence biologically, they ignored what doctors and scientists had to say in the 70’s through 2025, and in 2015 said essentially nothing will ever change no matter what science provided thus taking a hard anti science stance which goes against a very core Baha’i principle, the unity of science and religion, in the writings it is said if religion doesn’t provide the answer in situations like this we are to rely on science otherwise we’ve become superstitious (paraphrasing here). The mental gymnastics in the Baha’i Faith is beyond the pale , people have taken their lives over this and Baha’is just bury their heads in the sand because they are cowards, I’d rather have had a firm rejection like many of my LGBTQ friends who were raised in fundamentalist Christian denominations than this twisted Orwellian “doublespeak” scenario!

10/26/2025

Answering a viewer’s question about what my end goal is and if I want to start another Baha’i sect ? (Hell no!)

10/24/2025

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry Louis Gates Jr. once put it — “surely as gay as it was Black.”

This perspective rings true for Allison Robinson, the lead curator of “The Gay Harlem Renaissance.”

“In school, we tend to learn that the Harlem Renaissance was focused on race and class, and the things that they’re producing, but in fact, s*xuality and gender are just as important,” Robinson told NBC News.

The multiroom exhibition takes visitors through the Great Migration of Black Southerners in the early 20th century; introduces them to the groundbreaking works of writers like Alain Locke, Langston Hughes and Bruce Nugent; leads them through the speakeasies, rent parties, drag balls and salons of the interwar years; explores the soulful blues music of entertainers like Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith; and examines the lasting legacy of the work produced during this rich cultural era.

“The Gay Harlem Renaissance” — which features more than 200 items including paintings, sculptures, photographs and books is open until March.

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10/24/2025

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Harvey Milk (1930–1978), born in Woodmere, New York, to a Jewish family, was the first openly gay elected official in California, becoming a San Francisco supervisor in 1977 and a key figure in the gay rights movement.

After earning a mathematics degree from SUNY Albany in 1951, Milk served in the U.S. Navy from 1951 to 1955 as a diving officer and lieutenant junior grade aboard the USS Kittiwake, training in Norfolk, Virginia, and San Diego.

His Navy career ended when questioned about his s*xuality, prompting his resignation to avoid a dishonorable discharge, a pivotal moment fueling his later activism, as noted in The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts (1982).

Settling in San Francisco’s Castro district in 1972, Milk opened Castro Camera, a hub for q***r organizing.

After three failed campaigns (1973, 1975, 1976), he won a supervisor seat in 1977, pushing anti-discrimination laws, including a 1978 ordinance protecting gay employment rights.

His “Hope Speech” at the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade urged coming out as political power: “Your life is worth living… you must come out.”

Harvey was assassinated on November 27, 1978, with Mayor George Moscone by Dan White a former government employee. Milk’s death sparked the White Night riots, with 10,000 mourners marching.

The GLBT Historical Society holds his Navy records and campaign materials, and the film Milk (2008) amplified his legacy. From a closeted Navy officer to a defiant politician, Milk’s courage made him a History Month icon, reshaping q***r activism.

October is LGBTQ History Month, a time to reflect on the LGBTQ pioneers who shaped our future and paved the way for innovation, creativity and a better future for q***r communities.