Date: March 3, 2019 Source: Baltimore Jewish Times URL: https://www.jewishtimes.com/science-fiction-and-jewish-roots/ Science Fiction and Jewish Roots: Sarah Pinsker Baltimore-based science fiction author, Sarah Pinsker, guesses she started writing science fiction stories at around 8-years-old. (Karen Osborne) For Baltimore-based science fiction author Sarah Pinsker, director-at-large of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, love for the genre is a result of lifelong … Read More
Neely Tal Snyder, program director at Pearlstone Center, dies – Baltimore Sun
Date: August 19, 2015 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-neely-snyder-20150819-story.html Neely Tal Snyder was program director at the Pearlstone Center and a founder of JQ Baltimore, a Jewish LGBTQ outreach and support organization. (Baltimore Sun) Neely Tal Snyder, program director at the Pearlstone Center and a founder of JQ Baltimore, a Jewish LGBTQ outreach and support organization, was killed Aug. 10 … Read More
A good year for LGBT pride, in Baltimore and elsewhere
Date: July 23, 2015 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-ae-pride-sidebar-lillerqa-20150723-story.html Paul Liller, acting executive director of the GLCCB. (Kevin Rector / The Baltimore SunPaul Liller, 33, is deputy director and, since earlier this month, acting executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland (GLCCB), producers of the annual Baltimore Pride celebration. With preparations for … Read More
Looking Out: Baltimore faith groups plan Seder with LGBT liberation in mind
Date: March 12, 2015 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-gm-looking-out-baltimore-faith-groups-plan-seder-with-lgbt-liberation-in-mind-20150312-story.html Looking Out: Baltimore faith groups plan Seder with LGBT liberation in mind bs-gm-looking-out-baltimore-faith-groups-plan-seder-with-lgbt-liberation-in-mind-20150312 If the Jewish ritual of Seder is at its core about liberation, why not the liberation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people from the constraints of social discrimination? That’s the question posed by organizers of Baltimore’s … Read More
LGBT Americans less likely to be religious, poll finds – Baltimore Sun
Date: August 13, 2014 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-gm-lgbt-americans-less-likely-to-be-religious-poll-finds-20140813-story.html Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender are less likely to be religious than their non-LGBT peers, according to a new Gallup poll. While about half of the 3,242 LGBT adults included in the poll found religion important in their daily lives, that is well below the 66 … Read More
TO BE GAY AND ORTHODOX
Date: February 2, 2002 Source: Baltimore Sun URL: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-02-02-0202020051-story.html
Interfaith issues can challenge gay couples
Date: January 31, 1998 Source: TampaBay.com (part of the Baltimore Sun parent network, Tribune) URL: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/01/31/interfaith-issues-can-challenge-gay-couples/ When David Steinhorn and Thom Stroschein began their relationship 12 years ago, their first date did not begin until near midnight because Steinhorn first attended a Selichot service, a special penitential service preceding the Jewish High Holy Days that begins late on a Saturday … Read More