Presenter Angelique Godwin, Director of Transgender Equality, Equality Florida, will be sharing her story identifying how choosing to take up space, telling your story, and speaking truth to power can lead to inspiring others and creating change in minds and action. What you can do to get involved and make a difference in your community.
Presenter Mike Maeshiro is a gay ex-pastor and is now a consultant for queer and deconstructing Christians. He will talk about how he sincerely suffocated for Jesus, not realizing that it was people and bigotry that kept him in the closet, not Jesus. Mike will share his story of how his relationship with God led … Continue reading God Made Me Gay
Presenter: Jocelyn E. Leveque, MD FACS Please join us in hearing about Dr. Leveque’s journey with her son as a gay man as well as maintaining a medical practice as a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at the Gulf Coast Plastic Surgery campus on Brent. She has been practicing in Pensacola for 25 years. Her practice has included transgender surgery specifically “top” … Continue reading One Surgeon’s Journey
Presenter: Nate Schweigert, Chaplain The most beauty in the day comes at sunup or sun down. How does this pertain to our humanity as we ebb and flow in constant states of change? Nate is a nature artist and a hospital chaplain who engages spirituality through panentheism and mysticism in the body and the natural … Continue reading The Queerness of the Natural World: Revelations in Liminal Space
Organizers of the service: Crys Brockway, Marybeth Ramsey, and Brett Ramsey In honor of Pride month, this service will have a panel discussion with several UUCP members and friends. They will share some of their insights and experiences about their preferred pronoun changes and how it has affected their lives. Watch this service on our … Continue reading Why are Pronouns So Important?
Nancy Hagman, UUCP member, will present some of the history of the LGBTQ+ community in Pensacola. In the past few years the History Museum began to explore more deeply the roots planted here in Pensacola. There is a rich history that has not been well known.
Nancy Hagman, UUCP member and a member of Sunday’s Child non-profit will present this service honoring LGBTQ+ month. This service will introduce the non-profit organization Sunday’s Child, which funded the Council on Aging to create a beautifully done video. The video “Someone Waits for Me” will be shown, highlighting the aging LGBTQ+ community. Two former … Continue reading Someone Waits for Me
On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 10:00 am, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola will hold our Candlelight Memorial Service to honor the transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming individuals we have lost in late 2021 and 2022. Many lost their lives due to violence and nonacceptance. Please join us to hold them in the light. Crys Brockway, member of … Continue reading National Transgender Day of Remembrance
Sunday June 12, 2022 we will be honoring Pride Month. We are pleased to have three or four youth join the service to give their knowledge and experience with the Rainbow Community as friends, at school and other settings. The legislature is significantly making decisions that will impact us and the younger generation as well. … Continue reading The Rainbow Community and Connection
Language to indicate that a congregation is “welcoming” and “inclusive” varies among denominations and different faith communities. For more than twenty years, the Welcoming Congregation Program has helped Unitarian Universalist congregations design their own unique program to engage in the deepest way possible with the question of how to intentionally welcome individuals, families, and communities … Continue reading The Welcoming Congregation
