Gender & Sexual Identity

Throughout our lives as we explore the world around us, we also discover elements of ourselves. For the LGBTIQ community the process of coming out, transitioning, and experimenting with gender and sexual identity may come with public or private struggles for acceptance, some which may be difficult or painful. Through ritual we can honor the range of emotions and experiences along this journey, support each other to become our true and best selves, and celebrate what makes each of us special and unique.
 

Latest Rituals

“We celebrate the triumph / Of love over hate”
queer couple - one in a white bridal gown and one in a blue suit - embracing under a chuppah with a rabbi wearing a rainbow tallit
“We ask your blessing upon our community, the holy assembly of all transgender people”
person holding white umbrella with multi-colored paint or sparkles raining down over them

We see each other and we honor our journeys and those yet to come.

Responsive Reading for Coming Out

“Rainbows and storms go hand in hand”

Rainbows and Storms: A Queer Poem

“To see oneself as completely whole in living”

Pride Shabbat Blessing from an Ally

“May the Holy One instill in us the wisdom to know our liberations are entwined together.”

Birkat Hodesh Ga’avah: A Blessing for Pride Month
“Our hands do not lace, like the tzitzit. / I wish they would.”
I Feel Then a Tear: A Prayer in the Eyes of a Queer Man

Prayer honoring one’s gender identity

She’asani Ish V’ishah

A ritual for receiving a new Hebrew name after gender transition

Transgender Renaming Ceremony

celebrating a gender transition

Ceremony of Affirmation and Renaming

The Reconstructionist Network

From Brokenness to Healing: Making Meaning through Memoir

We will focus on the definition of trauma, how returning to it can help heal, how writing structure and pacing can help contain it, and how we can revision ourselves before and after. 

Six sessions, starting April 18th

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