The LGBTQ Baha'i Experience

01/03/2026

01/02/2026

Abdu’l-Baha on the future of Iran

12/19/2025

From Daniel Lismore

I genuinely cannot understand how generation above me ended up here. We grew up idolising David Bowie and through him discovered Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. We lived through punk and post punk smashing gender norms in public. We watched Prince blur masculinity and desire. We danced to Boy George. We worshipped Grace Jones. Then came the flamboyance of the eighties where androgyny excess and self invention were celebrated. Gender bending was not a threat. It was art. It was freedom. It was cool.

So how did the same generation become so hostile to people simply existing outside rigid boxes. How did we go from celebrating difference to fearing it. This backlash does not come from culture or history. It comes from forgetting who we were and what we stood for. None of this is new. Get over it.

12/07/2025

Lena Thwaite spoke about pride when accepting an award at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in 2018.

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11/28/2025

Baha’is do better

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The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil has appointed a bishop to head up the country’s Catholic LGBTQ+ groups. São Paulo’s Bishop Arnaldo Carvalheiro Neto of the Diocese of Jundiaí will have a three-year term in the post.

The first Catholic LGBTQ+ group was formed in Rio de Janeiro in 2007, and has since inspired a number of other initiatives that provide support for the community. In 2014, the Network was formed to tie together groups from different cities, and more groups have since joined.

Speaking to Crux on 27 November, the Network’s Executive Secretary Luis Fernano Rabello, said: “For us, it’s the recognition of our 11-year-long activity.”

Rabello hopes that the designated bishop will work “as a hand to give us support and to make us closer to CNBB and individual bishops.”

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11/25/2025

For generations, q***r people have been told we’re the problem—that our existence threatens faith, family, and freedom. But it’s not an “agenda” to want safety, equality, or dignity. It’s not radical to want to live without fear.

The real agenda is centuries old: control disguised as conviction, politics wrapped in scripture, power justified by “values.” You’ve always made it “about the children!”

Faith should never be weaponized to wound. Love doesn’t need protecting from people—it needs practicing for people.

If your beliefs demand someone else’s suffering, maybe it’s not your faith being tested — it’s your humanity.

11/19/2025

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Hollywood High Protest Against Anita Bryant (1977)

This electrifying moment from shows the thousand strong protest at Hollywood High against Anita Bryant, one of the nation’s most vocal anti gay activists. Students, locals, and LGBTQ+ Angelenos packed the campus to reject her message of hate and to defend q***r rights during a volatile political era. The protest became one of the loudest local rebukes of Bryant’s nationwide campaign. In Los Angeles a city shaped by both activism and artistry young people proved once again that they were often the first to push back against intolerance.