From The LGBTQ Archives: Spirituality

Some of our favorite articles from the LGBTQ archive about spirituality, Jewish journeys and the intersection of religion and queer identities:

• Locked Doors: news article about the Orthodox gay community, and their scholarly and social efforts to gain acceptance.
• Negotiating Queer Identities: Queer, Interfaith Couples Share their Stories: General information about interfaith gay and lesbian couples and their seeming nonchalance about being interfaith, an identity which is trumped by their queer identity.
• Bridging Differences in Gay and Lesbian Interfaith Partnerships: professional view from a gay rabbi about the special and differing needs and expectations gay interfaith couples have of synagogues.
• I Chose a Non-Jew — and the Non-Jew Chose Judaism: personal narrative of a woman whose partner converted to Judaism while she remained conflicted.
• My Name Is My Prayer: the daughter of an interfaith family, who was not raised as a Jew, discusses the importance of the Hebrew name she picked when she converted.
• Review of The Choosing by Andrea Myers: full of anecdotes that are both familiar and provocative, Myers reminds us that there's more than one way to create an interfaith family.