PFLAG provides an opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
PFLAG meets at our Church on the First Tuesday of every month.
Support: to cope with an adverse society,
Education: to enlighten the public,
Advocacy: to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
Click here for the PFLAG Website
Suggested background reading:
Heather has two mommies: (1989)King & King (2010)This is how it always was (2017), a Novel about a family w/trans childQuarantine Fatigue is Real (what we can learn from the earlier epidemic, 1980's AIDS.)Tony Kushner (Angels in America)Larry Kramer, Author and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 ...
While there is frequent, brutal persecution of gay people around the world, there is also the pervasive, subtle persecution that is implemented in our own society or countries we consider enlightened. For example, the two children's books mentioned above - Heather's Two Mommies (1989) and King & King (2010), were banned in libraries in the US when they first came out: one for mentioning that same-sex couples could have children, the other for suggesting that two same-sex children could fall in love; I know, because I had to buy my own copies for my children! And since most kids (and families) who are uncomfortable nowadays in their gender identity are trans kids, we can celebrate the fact that the novel "This is how it always was" was offered by the Essex public library last year for the monthly reading group!
.gif)