A New Site for Good, Old Work in LGBTQIA+ Justice, Equality, and Love
Welcome to a new blog site, A Queer Pilgrim. For the last three years, I was the LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Coordinator for the OR-ID United Methodist Church Conference (UMC). It was work I thoroughly enjoyed because it was fun, challenging, humorous, stressful, and mind-, heart- and body-opening and changing. That position was totally funded by the Collins Foundation, an Oregon-philanthropic organization. Sadly, they did not fund the position in 2021, because we still had between $20,000 and $25,000 of "unused" funds from 2020, which was money for programs we couldn't carry out because of COVID 19. Today, I begin a new site for the same work I was already doing in the OR-ID UMC Conference. This time, I am now no longer hired or tethered to the OR-ID UMC Conference, nor to The United Methodist Church. A member of Reconciling Ministry Network and the More Light Presbyterians (LGBTQIA+) group, I am focused on doing LGBTQIA+ advocacy work independently, while informed by primarily