RELIGIOUS JUSTICE-RELATED LINKS
Metropolitan Community Church of
New York, MCCNY (our parent church)
Rev. Pat Bumgardner, Senior Pastor
Center of Lesbian and Gay
Studies in Religion and Ministry (Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley)
Metropolitan
Community Church, Headquarters
Metropolitan
Community Church of Rochester, MCC Open Arms
Religious
Tolerance (promoting religious freedom,
tolerance, and diversity)
Soul
Force (interfaith movement to end spiritual
violence against LGBTQ people)
Bible Gateway
(bible study resource)
Crosswalk
(bible study resource, interlinear bible)
Early Christian
Writings (bible study resource, the "other" bible)
Gospel
Parallels (bible study resource)
Sacred
Name Bible (bible study resource, Greek/Hebrew
concordance)
Study
Light (bible study resource)
Binghamton
Pride Coalition, BPC (promoting LGBTQ pride in the Binghamton area) or call
(866) 682-4083.
Pride and Joy
Families of Binghamton, (Offers educational programs, information and
referral services, and support groups for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT)
parents, prospective parents, and their children) or call (607) 724-4308
Parents and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) of Binghamton
Southern
Tier Gender Alliance, STGA (trans
social and support group in Binghamton)
American Civil Liberties Union,
ACLU (social justice)
Center
for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CLAGS (LGBTQ scholarship)
Gay Lesbian Straight Education
Network, GLSEN (envisioning a future in which every
child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation
of gender identity/expression)
Gay Weddings.com (guide for LGBTQ weddings)
Lambda
Legal Defense (LGBTQ civil rights law firm and education)
Marriage Equality USA
(working to end discrimination in civil marriage)
National Youth Advocacy
Coalition, NYAC (LGBTQ youth advocacy)
Parents,
Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays, PFLAG (LGBTQ
support and advocacy)
Teaching
Tolerance/Southern Poverty Law Institute (promoting
diversity and equity in K-12 education)
Gender
Public Advocacy Coalition, GPAC (working to end gender-based discrimination)
Jamison Green (trans
activist website)
New
Hampshire Tree: Transgender Resources for Empowerment and Education
(trans bibliography: books, films, magazines)
New
York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, NYAGRA (trans
civil rights action group)
Southern
Comfort Conference (trans education and visibility conference)
Transgender
Law and Policy Institute, TLPI (trans advocacy)
Transgender
Warrior (trans activist Leslie Feinberg's website)
Translating Identity
Conference, TIC (trans education and visibility conference)
Althaus-Reid, Macella., Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
Bailey, Derrick S., Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition (London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1955).
Barnstone, Willis, ed., The Other Bible (New York: HarperSanFrancisco,
1984).
Bernstein Sycamore, Matt, ed., Nobody Passes: Rejecting
the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Emeryville, Ca: Seal Press, 2006).
Borg, Marcus, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Cotemporary Faith (New York: Harper Collins, 1994).
Bornstein, Kate, My Gender Workbook (New York: Routledge, 1998).
Bornstein, Kate, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (New York: Routledge, 1994).
Boyd, Helen, My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life With a Cross Dresser
(New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003).
Boyd, Helen, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life With a Transgender Husband
(Emeryville, Ca: Seal Press, 2007).
Brooten, Bernadette J., Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1998).
Brown, Joanne Carlson & Bohn, Carole R., eds., Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1989).
Brown, Raymond E., Fitzmyer, Joseph A., & Murphy, Roland E., eds., The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990).
Boswell, John, Christianity, Homosexuality and Social Tolerance (Chicago: Chicago U. P., 1980).
Comstock, Gary David, Gay Theology Without Apology (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1993).
Cone, James H. & Wilmore, Gayraud S., Black Theology: A Documentary History 1980-1992 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993).
Crossan, John Dominic, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1995).
Crossan, John Dominic, The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images (Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 1998).
Douglas, Mary, Purity and Danger (New York: Routledge, 1966).
England, Michael E., The Bible and Homosexuality, 4th Ed. (Gaithersburg, MD: Chi Rho, 1991). [$3 order from UFMCC: Publications Department, 5300 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 304, Los Angeles, CA 90029-1196).
Feinberg, Leslie, Drag King Dreams (New York: Carroll & Graff, 2006).
Feinberg, Leslie, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
Feinberg, Leslie, Transgender Warriors: Making History From Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996).
Feinberg, Leslie, Stone Butch Blues (New York: Firebrand Books, 1993).
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Shüssler, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1983).
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Shüssler, Jesus, Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology (New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994).
Green, Jamison, Becoming a Visible Man (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004).
Goss, Robert E. & Mona West, eds. Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2000).
Helminiak, Daniel, What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality (San Francisco: Alamo Square Press, 1995).
Heyward, Carter, Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1984).
Heyward, Carter, ed., God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1985).
Heyward, Carter, Coming Out and Relational Empowerment: A Lesbian Feminist (The Stone Center, 1988).
Heyward, Carter & Davis, Ellen C., eds., Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1989).
Heyward, Carter, Staying Power: Reflections on Gender, Justice, and Compassion (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1995).
Heyward, Carter, Saving Jesus From Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What it Means to be Christian (Fortress Press, 1999).
Horner, Tom, Jonathan Loved David (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978).
Howard-Brook, Wes, Becoming Children of God: John's Gospel and Radical Discipleship (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994).
Kaldera, Raven, Hermaphrodeities (Xlibris Corporation, 2001).
McNeill, John J., The Church and the Homosexual (New York: Next Year Publications, 1985).
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey, The Divine Feminine: Biblical Imagery of God as Female (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1984).
Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey, Sensuous Spirituality: Out From Fundamentalism (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1992).
Myers, Ched, Binding the Strongman: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1988).
Nestle, Joan, Clare Howell, Riki Wilchins (eds.), GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary (Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 2002).
Piazza, Michael S., Holy Homosexuals (Dallas: Sources of Hope Publishing, 1997).
PFLAG, "Is Homosexuality a Sin?" (Washington, DC, 1992).
Pittenger, Norman, Homosexuality and the Bible (available through UFMCC: Publications Department, 5300 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 304, Los Angeles, CA 90029-1196).
Ranke-Heinemann, Uta, Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church (Penguin Books, 1991).
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, "The Sexuality of Jesus," in Christianity and Crisis, 38: 8 (May 1978).
Scanzoni, Letha Dawson & Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey, eds., Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? A Positive Christian Response (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994).
Scroggs, Robin, The New Testament and Homosexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983).
Tanis, Junstin, Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith (Pilgrim Press, 2003).
Throckmorton, Burton H., Jr., ed., Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, 5th Ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1992).
Trible, Phyllis, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978).
Trible, Phyllis, Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984).
Wilson, Rev. Nancy, Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995). [Out of print]