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Happy Springtime |
Vernal Equinox

Bloom by Troye Sivan
Lusty Month of May
I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Is Easter Becoming More Queer Inclusive?
Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
It
Might As Well Be Spring

Queer as
Springtime
"Let's sing a gay little spring song."
-Larry
Morey
“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree
with leaves.
Now the woods put forth their blossoms, and
the year assumes its gay attire.”
-Virgil
"What
frolicks are here, so droll and so queer, how joyful
appeareth the day.
Even bunter and bawd unite to applaud, and celebrate the
first of the May."
-Song-Chant, circa 1770
"Queer
things happen in the garden in May. Little faces
forgotten appear.
And plants
thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to
confound you."
W.
E . Johns

Spring is a time when flowers bloom and trees begin to
grow and reproduce. The days grow longer and the
temperature in most areas becomes more temperate. You can
also contemplate the melting of ice and thawing of the
ground. It's the time of year when everything in nature
is changing and promising new life and new hope. After
the long, dark, winter months, spring is literally a
breath of fresh air. And as the days get longer, the
nights get shorter, and it starts to feel warmer, nature
responds in a big way. It is a time of rebirth and
renewal.
Spring ushers in the seasonal celebrations of such
holidays as Vernal Equinox, St. Patrick's Day, Easter,
Passover, Holi, Mardi Gras, Cinqo de Mayo, May Day, the
Festival of Flora, and Ostara. This is the season of
tulip festivals and cherry blossom festivals. It's
the time for spring breaks, spring festivals, spring
flings, and spring galas. It is the time to dance around
the May pole and ceremoniously twist ribbons of colorful
cloth. It's time to decorate eggs and fill your Easter
basket with goodies. It's time to don your Easter bonnet and do the
bunny hop.

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Christopher Macken - Happy
Easter
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Easter Service for LGBTQ Christians in Social Distancing
Era
Garden
Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations
Happy Mardi Gras
One of the
big Easter events in the LGBTQ community is the Annual
Gay Easter Parade! It was started in 2000 in New
Orleans, Louisiana as a fun way to showcase the fashion
and creativity of the LGBTQ community “with ladies in
gowns or summer suits with Easter Hats and gentlemen in
summer suits or tuxedos.” It’s meant to be a fun
cultural event the whole family can attend regardless of
whether or not you identify as LGBTQ.
It is also the typical time of year for the LGBTQ
community to come out and have fun. Spring events with
queer themes might include weddings, film festivals,
brunches, dance parties, picnics, parades, outdoor
concerts, street markets, and outdoor art shows. It's a
great time for running, walking, hiking, cycling and
field days for fundraising or just for fun. It's time
for drag queen story time and gay men's chorus concerts.
And it's also the time for queer prom.

"We roamed the
fields and river sides,
When we are young and gay;
We chased the bees and plucked the flowers,
In the merry, merry month of May."
-Stephen
Foster
"It’s May!
It’s May! The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray.
It’s here! It’s here! That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear!
That
darling month when everyone throws self-control away.
It's wild!
It's gay! A month of dismay!
It’s May!
It’s May! That gorgeous holiday
It’s mad! It’s gay! A libelous display!
Those
dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks.
Everyone makes divine mistakes! The lusty month of May!
It’s time
to do a wretched thing or two, and try to make each
precious day
One you’ll always rue! It’s May! It’s May!
It’s wild!
It’s gay! Depraved in every way!"
-Alan Jay
Lerner, Camelot

Beltane Ritual
Lusty Month of May
Gay
Springtime Comes to New Orleans
I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Is Easter Becoming More Queer Inclusive?
Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Easter: Holiday for People on the Margins of Society
Spring: Short LGBTQ Film
Bloom by Troye Sivan
Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
Loveable
Springtime
“April comes
like an idiot, babbling and spewing flowers.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Summer, winter, and fall may have their fans, but spring
is clearly the most lovable of the four seasons. There
are some perfectly good reasons why spring is so
delightful.
Spring marks the end of blistering winter and the
transitional period to scorching summer. In many places,
the season brings mild temperatures in the 60s and
70s.People tend to be most comfortable at such
temperatures. So the arrival of spring means you can
finally ditch the heavy winter layers and still be
comfortable.
Following the spring equinox, days begin lasting longer
and nights get shorter. Daylight Saving Time, which
moves the clock forward starting in March, gives you
even more light hours to get things done. Those extra
hours of sun can be a major mood-booster. We know that
the longer the sun is up during the day, the less mental
distress people experience.

There is no better indicator of spring than birds
chirping outside your window. Their northward migration
can start as early as mid-February and last into June,
meaning that throughout the spring, you can expect to
see a major avian influx.
Warmer temperatures mean you can spend more time
outside, which is great for mental health. You can get
back to taking walks in nature, enjoying the great
outdoors, and breathing in the fresh air.
Temperate weather makes it easier to get the fresh air
you need. You can open your windows and let in the
breeze. Spring brings the perfect opportunity to throw
open those windows and doors and get the air moving
again.
Bloom by Troye Sivan
Springtime in Arkansas: Gay Friendly Town in Rural
America
Bambi: April Showers
It
Might As Well Be Spring
Purim: The Queerest Jewish Spring Holiday
New Orleans:
Annual Gay Easter Parade
Gay Springtime Comes to Philadelphia
Jazz Trio: It Might As Well Be Spring
Pot of Gold at the End of the...
Season of Gay
Awakening
Celebrating Spring in the LGBTQ Community
Spring is a season of renewal, growth, and vibrant
transformation, and for many in the LGBTQ community, it
holds a special significance. The arrival of spring
symbolizes not only a fresh start for nature but also a
time to celebrate individuality, authenticity, and love
in its many forms. For LGBTQ individuals, spring offers
a space to honor both personal journeys and the
collective progress of the community.
One of the most poignant ways the queer community
celebrates spring is through Pride events, which often
take place during the warmer months. Though LGBTQ Pride
celebrations occur throughout the year, the spirit of
spring infuses these events with a unique energy. In
many existentially important ways, Pride events are the
ultimate Spring Fest!
As flowers bloom and the weather turns bright and warm,
Pride marches, festivals, and gatherings become an
opportunity for visibility, unity, and joy. It is a time
for LGBTQ individuals to proudly embrace who they are
and express their identities without fear or shame. The
rainbow is an during symbol of spring as it is a key
symbol of the queer community. The rainbow flag waves
proudly in springtime celebrations, representing the
spectrum of sexualities and gender identities within the
community.
Easter: Holiday for People on the Margins of Society
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Bloom by Troye Sivan
Spring: Short LGBTQ Film
Gay Springtime Comes to Philadelphia
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Jazz Trio: It Might As Well Be Spring
Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season
Happy Mardi Gras

"April, the angel of the months,
the young love of the year."
-Vita Sackville-West
Spring also provides an opportunity for reflection and
growth, both personally and within the community. As
nature awakens, so too does the spirit of change.
Springtime encourages LGBTQ individuals to shed the
weight of past struggles, celebrate victories, and look
forward to the future. It is a reminder that, like
nature, the community continues to evolve—embracing new
conversations about gender fluidity, intersectionality,
and mental health awareness.
Furthermore, spring invites people to connect with one
another. Just as trees and flowers blossom and thrive in
collaboration with the earth, the LGBTQ community
thrives through support and solidarity. Spring brings
people together to engage in conversations about
justice, equality, and acceptance, while also fostering
creativity through art, music, and social activism.
Spring holds deep meaning for the queer community. It
represents not only a season of growth and renewal but
also a time to come together in celebration of love,
identity, and belonging. Through Pride celebrations,
personal reflection, and communal unity, spring reminds
the LGBTQ+ community of the beauty of individuality and
the power of collective resilience.
Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Christopher Macken - Happy
Easter
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Irish People and Trans People
Easter Service for LGBTQ Christians in Social Distancing
Era
Garden
Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations
Happy Mardi Gras

Queering St. Patrick's Day
"When Irish hearts are happy, all the world seems
bright and gay.
And when Irish eyes are smiling, sure,
they steal your heart away."
-Bing Crosby
St.
Patrick’s Day is an opportunity for Irish (and really
any) Queers to celebrate. But the holiday also
recognizes the discrimination many from the Emerald Isle
experienced as marginalized immigrants. Although LGBTQ
communities have been left out of the festivities in the
past (New York City and Boston parades only recently
allowed them to march with their banners) these groups
have played an important role in St. Patrick’s Day
Parades since the 1990s.

City
groups have begun to realize that members of the Irish
and LGBTQ communities have a lot in common. Cities with
large Irish populations (like Boston, New York, and
Chicago) have admitted, “We’re a city of cultures, and
the LGBTQ community is a part of it.” Recognizing this
intersectionality (as well as a chance to party) clubs,
restaurants and bars throughout major cities are
honoring Queer and Irish Pride together.
Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
New Orleans:
Annual Gay Easter Parade
Bambi: April Showers
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Garden
Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations
Christopher Macken - Happy
Easter

Springtime Quotes and Poetry
“The sun does arise. And make happy the skies. The merry
bells ring To welcome the spring.”
-William Blake
“In just spring, when the world is mudluscious, the
little lame balloon man whistles far and wee, and eddie
and bill come running from marbles and piracies, and
it's spring. When the world is puddle wonderful, the
queer old balloon man whistles far and wee, and betty
and isbel come dancing from hopscotch and jumprope, and
it's spring. And the goat footed balloon man whistles
far and wee.”
-E. E. Cummings
“The month of May has come, when every lusty heart
begins to blossom.”
-Sir Thomas Mallory
Lusty Month of May
Gay
Springtime Comes to New Orleans
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
I Wish I Were a Fairy
I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Is Easter Becoming More Queer Inclusive?
Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Springtime in Arkansas: Gay Friendly Town in Rural
America
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
It
Might As Well Be Spring
Pot of Gold at the End of the...
“Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And I say it's
alright. Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely
winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it's
been here. Little darling, the smiles are returning to
their faces. Here comes the sun. Here comes the sun. And
I say it's alright. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes.”
-George Harrison
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
-William Shakespeare
“We'veplodded through a weird and weary time called
winter by the calendar alone. We have beheld an earth
pool-deep in slime. Image a heaven of stone. We've found
life hid between the folds of mire, sensed life in every
place, heard life in tune. The earth shell cracks with
underneath desire. Spring crawls from the cocoon. Her
puny wings vibrate with will to grow. She clings,
expanding like an opening eye, more large, more able,
more developed. Lo, the perfect butterfly.”
-E. E. Cummings

Lusty Month of May
Gay
Springtime Comes to New Orleans
I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Is Easter Becoming More Queer Inclusive?
Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Springtime in Arkansas: Gay Friendly Town in Rural
America
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Happy Mardi Gras
It
Might As Well Be Spring
Pot of Gold at the End of the...
“Now do a choir of chirping minstrels bring, in triumph
to the world, the youthful spring.”
-Thomas Nashe
“Spring is like a perhaps hand, which comes carefully
out of nowhere, arranging a window into which people
look, while people stare, arranging and changing,
placing carefully there a strange thing, and a known
thing here, and changing everything carefully. Spring is
like a perhaps hand in a window, carefully to and fro,
moving new and old things, while people stare carefully,
moving a perhaps fraction of a flower here, placing an
inch of air there, and without breaking anything.”
-E. E. Cummings

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter
Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
New Orleans:
Annual Gay Easter Parade
Bambi: April Showers
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Garden
Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations
"Oh how I love the springtime gay that brings the leaves
and flowers out!
As much to hear the merry way of birds who throw their
song about, to echo through the glen.
So much I love a meadow fair festooned with tents whose
banners flare.
And oh, what rapture then, when ranks up on that field
prepare,
each armored knight upon his mare."
-Bertran
de Born
“For winter's rains and ruins are over, and all the
season of snows and sins. The days dividing lover and
lover, the light that loses, the night that wins. And
time remembered is grief forgotten, and frosts are slain
and flowers begotten, and in green under wood and cover,
blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
-Algernon Charles Swinburne

"O sweet spontaneous earth, how often have the doting
fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee,
has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty, how
often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy
knees, squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest
conceive gods, but true to the incomparable couch of
death, thy rhythmic lover, thou answerest them only with
spring."
-E. E. Cummings
“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and
nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change,
the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall
gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will
be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings
of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of
spring.”
-Madeleine M. Kunin
“And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of
Love felt everywhere. And each flower and herb on
Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry
rest.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Easter: Holiday for People on the Margins of Society
Bloom by Troye Sivan
Spring: Short LGBTQ Film
Gay Springtime Comes to Philadelphia
Jazz Trio: It Might As Well Be Spring
Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season
Christopher Macken - Happy
Easter
Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson: Queer Marine Biologist, Author, and
Environmentalist
Put yourself in a state of mind to reckon with
uncertainty, to hold multiple things simultaneously
within your mind at once. To set the stage, let’s visit
Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind, “Against this cosmic
background the lifespan of a particular plant or animal
appears, not as a drama complete in itself, but only as
a brief interlude in a panorama of endless change”
(Carson, 1941). We are small, in the impossible grand
scheme of things. We are here, then gone, in the blink
of an eye, our little blue world so strange. This all
matters because we decide it does. Howl like the sea
wind because you can, because you are so alive.
Step back now and examine our subject: Rachel Carson. A
salt-water woman, born to study marine biology and paint
its intricacies in stirring prose. Carson lived a
complicated life, glimpsed by her relationship with one
Dorothy Freeman. The two shared each summer from the day
they met, and between them wrote more than 900 letters.
In one letter, Dorothy Freeman wrote, “I love you beyond
expression...My love is boundless as the Sea.” In
another, Carson wrote, “Reality can so easily fall short
of hopes and expectations, especially where they have
been high. My dear one, there is not a single thing
about you that I would change if I could!” Carson and
Freeman destroyed many of their letters shortly before
Carson’s death in 1964.

Rachel Carson: Biography
The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson: Queer Marine Biologist, Author, and
Environmentalist
The struggles of the queer experience are
transcendental. Back through the pages, queer folks
recognize their grief, their joy, their longing, and
their wonder in the shape of another person. In her last
letter to Dorothy Freeman before her death at 56, Rachel
Carson wrote, “Never forget, dear one, how deeply I have
loved you all these years.”
Here we have to strike a balance between shining a
spotlight on a facet of this person often suppressed
while not diminishing her as one thing. One unwieldy
box. We celebrate Rachel Carson in the fullness of her
being and now turn to her work.
For a time, Rachel Carson worked as a federal scientist
for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. In the
early 1950s, however, Carson left her position to pursue
a career as a full-time writer. Once Carson had written
her often dubbed sea trilogy, Under the Sea Wind (1941),
The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea
(1955), she set her sights on a behemoth. Carson created
a catalyst beyond her own design that would foster the
foundations for modern environmentalism.
It is documented that Rachel Carson did not want to
write Silent Spring (1962). Carson’s health was failing
in her later years, and taking on such a battle only
made her weary. There was a concerted effort from
interested entities to prevent Carson from publishing
Silent Spring. The use of pesticides like DDT expanded
and Carson faced increasing degradation to her
reputation. In the end it culminated in Carson’s
decision, “There would be no peace for me if I kept
silent.” DDT is a lost memory to most of the American
populace, so sweeping were the ramifications that Silent
Spring sparked.

Rachel Carson: Biography
The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson: Queer Marine Biologist, Author, and
Environmentalist
For her time, Rachel Carson was a radical. Carson
advocated for a complete upheaval of science as an
institution. She deemed “The ‘control of nature’ a
phrase conceived in arrogance…when it was supposed that
nature exists for the convenience of man” (Silent
Spring, 1962). Much of her work went unrecognized and
vilified for most of her life. Only now finding a home
in today’s climate action as we reap the rewards of
anthropogenic climate change. As the oceans boil, the
seas rise, the skies fill with smoke, and the land gives
way to drought, fire, and flood.
What Carson failed to recognize in Silent Spring–which
reveals the enduring, ignored gap in American
environmentalism–is who will bear the greatest burden of
pollution and ultimately the beast of climate change.
BIPOC, minority, disadvantaged communities experience
disproportionate impacts of climate catastrophe and
pollution. This is no longer theoretical; this is our
lived reality.
As the progenitor of modern environmentalism in the
United States, we must reckon with where pillars of
history like Rachel Carson fall short. This is not a
call to condemn our elders for the random happenstance
of birth, the inescapable context of place and time.
Rather, to look them in the eye and see them for what
they were. People, ordinary and imperfect; riddled with
flaws. Not to be glorified or watered down, but to be
seen, learned from, and perhaps understood.

Many took Carson’s work through the years and ran with
it. Implementing the environmental advocacy she pushed
for into anti-racist, Environmental Justice. Finding
Queer Ecology in the riot of greenery. Though today’s
Environmental Justice centered climate action may not
have been within the realm of Carson’s imagination, we
can view her work through our own context. We get to
decide what tomorrow means.
In Silent Spring, Carson wrote, “In nature nothing
exists alone.” We are inextricably linked to our
environments and to each other. Those forces that
endeavor to isolate and alienate us are the antithesis
of human community. Queer joy is found in the
recognition of one another, the connection and common
good of the collective bound by love. The shout in the
darkness that rings, “I am not alone! We are not alone!”
It is in the moment that we hear it, and reach out in
spite of fear, that we build something unshakeable.
As we walk further forward–each step a year, a decade, a
lifetime–the world changes around us. Progress is not
linear; backlash is guaranteed by those holding power
who perceive change as a threat to the status quo that
upholds their privilege. Hold on to the old adage: there
is strength in numbers; and the hateful few are
outnumbered, drowned out, by us. Look at the greenery
around you, open sky above you, and remember: “Those who
contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There
is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains
of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night,
and spring after winter” (Carson, 1962). Look out on the
waves and choose tomorrow.
[Source: Mac Glackin, Clean Water Action, June 2023
Christopher Macken - Happy Easter
New Orleans:
Annual Gay Easter Parade
Bambi: April Showers
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Happy Mardi Gras
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Garden
Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations
Easter Message Compares Treatment of Gay People with
Crucifixion of Christ

Queers Owe Our
Spring to Our Ancestors
Queers owe our Spring to our ancestors. The Radical
Faeries, Lavender Menace, Pansies, Friends of Dorothy,
Dandies, Clones and Queens. Names always changing insult
into revolution.
The ones
who turned a pink triangle into a compass. Leather
into armor, pamphlets into bibles, riots into parades.
Heart medication into poppers, like water into wine.
Electroshock and chemical castration into new pronouns
and hormones. Their conversion therapy into our
transitions. Mug shots in newspapers so we could be
plastered on ads. Bartending mob speakeasies so we could
stare at our phones in glistening bars.
Evicted on
the same streets we celebrate Supreme Court victories.
Necks under the boots of AIDS so we can hold our heads
high. The fascism of their everyday into our
freedom. Their sacrifices are our generational
wealth. Their alchemy is our inheritance.
[Source:
Leo Herrera]
Lusty Month of May
Gay
Springtime Comes to New Orleans
I Feel So Much Spring: Boston Gay Men's Chorus
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Is Easter Becoming More Queer Inclusive?
Gay Springtime Comes to New York City
Springtime in Arkansas: Gay Friendly Town in Rural
America
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
It
Might As Well Be Spring
Pot of Gold at the End of the...

Easter for LGBTQ
Christians
Easter
Message Resonates with LGBTQ Community
Churches across Christendom celebrate the core tenets of
Christianity during the Easter season. But the Easter
message is especially poignant for the LGBTQ community.
Inclusive faith-based communities serve their
congregations well by connecting the story of Jesus’
passion and resurrection to the shared life-journey of
their gay church members. The heart of the Easter
message is one of hope and “new life” in the face of
betrayal, rejection and death. Inclusive congregations
embrace their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters as
both gift and task and this is the first step in
realizing the “new life” reflected from that first
Easter.
The events
leading up to Jesus’ death resonate personally for the
gay community on many levels. Gay and lesbian church
members identify closely with the betrayal experienced
by Jesus. Religious authorities rejected his teaching of
inclusivity: dining with sinners, engaging Samaritan
outcasts and challenging the self-importance of the
Pharisee insiders of the religious establishment of his
day. The religious peers of Jesus did not want to accept
the spiritual thread he taught, establishing a common
bond of brother/sisterhood that requires the response to
treat others as one wished to be treated. Finally,
expanding the universal invitation of God’s salvation
beyond the religious elites was just too much to bear.

Christopher Macken - Happy Easter
New Orleans:
Annual Gay Easter Parade
Bambi: April Showers
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Happy Mardi Gras
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans
Lusty Month of May
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Garden
Digest: Springtime Poems and Quotations
Easter Message Compares Treatment of Gay People with
Crucifixion of Christ
And so, among many unwelcoming faith communities, it is
an absurdity, if not an abomination, to welcome lesbian
and gay people fully as equal recipients of God’s grace
and salvation. Failing to recognize that they are made
in the image of God is a rejection at the very spiritual
core. Identifying with the rejection inflicted on Jesus,
the gay community experiences rejection of their loving
relationships through the establishment of the Defense
of Marriage Act; they are confronted with injustice in
the workplace that could be safeguarded through the
enactment of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; as
Jesus was brutalized during his scourging and
crucifixion, gays and lesbians are taunted, bullied,
bashed and murdered for who they are. For some gay
teens, this rejection is beyond reconciliation and leads
to suicide.
But the final vindication is in the Easter message.
Jesus’ resurrection is more than just rising from the
dead. It is a radical “new life” that is offered to all:
straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. The
Easter mystery is the vindication of the life and
teaching of Jesus; that God’s invitation is freely
bestowed on all. The gift for inclusive churches is
their ability to embrace this “new life” through the
acceptance of their gay children. The task remains
incomplete until all Christian churches are truly
welcoming and inclusive.
[Source: John Lazar, Washington Blade, April 2011]

Beltane Ritual
Christopher Macken - Happy
Easter
Church Holds Easter Drag Service to Stand Up Against
Anti-Trans Bills
Easter: Holiday for People on the Margins of Society
Easter Message Compares Treatment of Gay People with
Crucifixion of Christ
Spring: Short LGBTQ Film
New Orleans:
Annual Gay Easter Parade
Lusty Month of May
Gay Springtime Comes to Philadelphia
I Wish I Were a Fairy
Jazz Trio: It Might As Well Be Spring
Bloom by Troye Sivan
Mental Floss: Spring is the Most Delightful Season
Bambi: April Showers
Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song
Happy Mardi Gras
Connecticut: LGBTQ Spring Celebrations
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Earth's Holidays:
Celebration of the Seasons
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