LGBT & Faith: Recent Episodes
Salzburg Global Seminar
A new audio series amplifying the voices of those who participated in Salzburg Global Seminar's Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith. This program, held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum, led to a blog series featuring 16 reflections that help others understand the changes happening in LGBT and faith communities. To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
In the 16th and final episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Scot Sherman, a candidate for the priesthood in the Episcopal Church explains how disruptive empathy and storytelling are required for faith communities to move forward with inclusion and change.
Scot reads his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the 15th episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, human rights lawyer Mónica Leonardo reads an essay written by Ecuadorian photographer Paola Paredes, who documents illegal anti-LGBT conversion clinics through her “visual activism” project Until You Change.
Mónica reads Paola's essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the 14th episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Saira Mujtaba remembers her gay uncle’s suicide and calls upon her Muslim community to include and protect their LGBT family members.
Saira reads her essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the 13th episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Victor Ciobotaru, a young Romanian pastor-to-be describes how LGBT Christians reach out to him even while their churches deny their existence.
Victor, who also shares his own journey, is reading his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the 12th episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Christian pastor Rev. Brandan Robertson explores the tensions and intersections of his sexuality and faith.
Brandan has experienced strong condemnation from members of the evangelical community in the US for being out and Christian.
He is reading his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the 11th episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, former senior advocacy manager at the Global Interfaith Network Simon Petitjean connects his personal and professional journey of faith. He also explains how he brought together religion and LGBT* human rights at the United Nations.
Simon is reading his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the 10th episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Buddhist monastic Tashi Choedup shares their journey of forging a healthy relationship between their queerness and their faith.
Tashi is reading their essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the ninth episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Saskia Wieringa, a renowned anthropologist on cross-cultural gender and women’s same-sex relations, looks back at her personal faith journey through three religions.
Saskia is reading her essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the eighth episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Rev. Ecclesia de Lange, director of Inclusive and Affirming Ministries, reflects on her journey of becoming vulnerable and courageous as a lesbian woman of faith.
When she wanted to marry a person of the same sex, she was suspended as a Methodist minister. Ecclesia said, "I came to see that it is better to be rejected for who I am than to be accepted for who I am not."
Ecclesia is reading her essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the seventh episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Fr Thomas Ninan, an Indian Orthodox priest, emphasizes the innate ability of each faith community to understand, accept and celebrate diverse gender identities and sexualities.
Thomas is reading his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the sixth episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Ahmed El-Hady, an Egyptian neuroscientist and political activist, asks if crucial questions of LGBT and Islam can be addressed in an environment where the slightest critique of the hegemonic religious discourse will put queer people in danger.
He makes a case for the secularization of politics and society as the only way to achieve LGBT inclusion.
Ahmed is reading his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the fifth episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Sukhdeep Singh, founder of Indian e-magazine Gaylaxy, shares his journey being a young gay man with a Sikh background. His goal is clear: “I want to assure other young queer Sikhs that one could be gay and Sikh.”
Sukhdeep is reading his essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the fourth episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, refugee rights activist Mahi Ramakrishnan reads an essay by Giti Thadani, researcher, writer, visual artist, and a founding member of the first Indian lesbian archive, Sakhi.
Giti's essay explores Hinduism and its thousand-year-old non-binary traditions and how its dual deities of the same sex reverberate and guide us today.
Mahi is reading Giti's essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the third episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Lebohang Matela, a regional coordinator of dialogues between religious leaders and LGBT persons in Southern Africa, reflects on the significance of religious leaders and the LGBT community speaking together with one voice.
She is reading her essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the second episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Joy Ladin, the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution and a poet, reflects on how to do the hard and holy work of inclusion.
She is reading her essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
*LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.
In the first episode of our LGBT & Faith audio series, Brenda Rodriguez Alegre makes a passionate plea for Filipino queers to reemerge and be more visible and for religious society to be more accepting of LGBT people and their faith. Brenda is an academic, activist, choir soprano, and expert on Filipino transgender history.
She is reading her essay from a blog series curated by the Global Online Forum on LGBT and Faith, a program held in 2020 by the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum.
To make these experiences and reflections more accessible, Salzburg Global and ILGA Asia have partnered to transform each blog into an audio feature.
Salzburg Global LGBT Forum and ILGA Asia will release one episode every three weeks. Please subscribe to the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum Newsletter to receive updates and be notified when new episodes are available.
For more information on the Salzburg Global LGBT* Forum, please visit salzburgglobal.org/go/lgbt.
For more information on ILGA Asia, please visit ilgaasia.org.
Please share widely using our hashtags #SGSlgbt and #LGBTandFaith.
- LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Salzburg Global Seminar is using this term as it is currently widely used in human rights conversations on sexual orientation and gender identity in many parts of the world, and we would wish it to be read as inclusive of other cultural concepts, contemporary or historical, to express sexuality and gender, intersex and gender non-conforming identities.