You were my dream church
Dear United Church, I want you to know that you were my dream church. I remember in 1998 I was a high school student overseas* and many...
From Tessa Whitecloud
My Sunday School teacher or YUCh as we called it (Youth of United Church) was the first adult I told I was queer. As a 12 year old (year...
My ask for an apology is personal: both Church and State abandoned me
I’ve been a queer activist all my life, starting in 1971 when I was the only woman to sign the ‘We Demand’ document, the first organized...
I am a queer womxn who loves a trans non-binary person
I am a queer womxn who loves a trans non-binary person. My faith has been both strengthened and challenged by the United Church. While I...
An important message for bisexual awareness
I self identify in two ways. Both as a bisexual which was my first self identification, and also as “queer” which came much later but...
At the congregational level something has to change
As a queer youth in the United Church I want the church to know that it has made progress however we still have some way to go. The...
As a queer person, I'm still not sure I'm OK, by Dodie*
I’m still not sure, as a queer person, that I’m OK, by Dodie* I wish I knew how to say that I’m still not sure, as a queer person, that...
Memories from Michael
In 1988, I was 14 years old. I was a member of a fundamentalist extremist cult. I was also so deeply in the closet I had no idea what...
