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WINNIPEG’S QUEER JEWS WELCOME UNDER MANY ROOFS
Thank you to Outwords for acknowledging Shaarey Zedek Synagogue’s choices in favour of gay and lesbian Jews (Corey Sherman, “Love Honour and Cherish: A New Home For Winnipeg’s Queer Jews”, December 2010). At the same time, let us recognize longer-standing “homes for Winnipeg’s queer Jews”. For example, Temple Shalom, our Reform Jewish congregation, has offered same-sex weddings for years. The Temple is led by a lesbian Rabbi, Karen Soria, who would be a fitting subject for a future interview.
There would be no equal rights without the years of protest
Re: Don’t Rain on Our Parade (May 2010)—I can understand the current identity crisis facing the LGBT* community in regard to Pride and what it means and stands for these days. There was a time when Pride was solely for the purpose of protest and in the words of a friend of mine “to give the middle finger to cars who forced their passengers to look away.”
dear outwords...
cosmetic surgery editorial disrespectful to GLBT community
I am writing in response to the February 2010 issue of Outwords, entitled ‘Cosmetic Surgery for the Gay Man’.
Although I was disappointed with Peter Carlyle – Gordge’s unbalanced article, the tone of February’s editorial was much more disappointing. The inherent message in this editorial suggests that our already marginalized community abandon notions of diversity and conform to society’s, often unrealistic and harmful prescriptions of external beauty.
