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 Cousin’s Son Was Rejected
I was here in 1988 and I remember what some of my relatives went through. My cousin and his wife both grew up in the United Church,...
I am a lesbian but I say I am straight
I am lesbian but mainly I say I am straight. Why? Well look at the history. The bible says God loves all his little children, meanwhile...
A young person writes, “Let us into the story…”
I wasn’t there when it happened I never knew that it was a “thing” No one told me about the “Issue” I just took it as fact I remember...
I learned love and faith were always okay and beautiful
I wasn’t alive in the 1980s when the United Church went through the process of accepting the LGBTQ+ community, but I have felt the...
Supporting families, supporting gay, lesbian and trans people
In the 1960s, as a thirteen year old teenager, I dealt with a bisexual father and a mother with repeated postpartum depressions without...
So, THIS is what gay is!
There was a time, before 1970, when God and I were just buds… I was a teen in 1975-ish, when my mom (the Christian Education Coordinator...
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...
My younger brother is openly gay
My younger brother is openly gay. Several years ago, in 2013, as teens my brother and I were in a foreign country with our mother on...
A word collage: LGBTQ+ Appreciation
A word collage: LGBTQ+ LOVE / Hope / Prayer / Equality / Miraculous Acceptance / Support / Unity / Faith / Community / Wonderful Worship...
