LGBTQIA+ Justice Resources

Each person is made in God’s image. Every one. Each gay, lesbian, bi, trans, queer, asexual, demisexual, intersex person is divine. We’ve known love is love is love for as long as we’ve been doing ministry on 7th Street and Second Avenue. We celebrate Love Period – all year. We opened our doors to the HIV/AIDS community in the late 1980s – offering hot meals and funerals. We organized to change ordination laws in the Reformed Church of America. We took our faith to the streets in support of marriage equality in New York State, and the first Sunday after marriage equality was legal in New York State, we held a triple gay wedding during worship. We worked for the federal marriage equality law and were at Stonewall, speaking, cheering, and singing when it was passed.

At Middle, we recognize that Pride is a year-round celebration. We continue to host Queer centered events and spaces such as: Queer Black Men, Queer Connections, quarterly Queer Roundtable Discussions, and more. We do this so that our queer siblings have the opportunity to rejoice in queer community, always.

Here’s a video we produced June, 2020—Queer Faith: In Our Own Words, that lifts up the lived experience of a variety of LGBTQIA+ people of faith.

And here’s a video we produced June, 2021—Queer Faith: Beyond the Gender Binary, that features 10 trans & nonbinary faith leaders from a variety of religious traditions reflecting on the blessedness of their own gender, and offering words of comfort and hope to trans & gender expansive youth amid legislative assaults on their humanity.

We also know that the particularities of our identities, and their intersections, are important! That’s why we created our Queer Black Men community group, to address that particular lived experience. If you’re a queer Black man and would like to join, email Keith Allen at queerblackmen@gmail.com.

Throughout the year, join our LGBTQIA+ group, Queer Connections. Email Elise Tiralli to receive updates about events.

For LGBTQI+ Resource of Care:

QCF Resources (Click Resources top of page)

Trans Lifeline

Trans Ministry Collective 

Befrienders (outside of US or Canada)

The Trevor Project: Resource Center

Trevor Project Counselor Line

  • Text ‘START’ to 678-678
  • Call 1-866-488-7386
  • Chat via computer