#Jewish LGBT

[anewgayeveryday]

Today's LGBT+ Character is;

Isaac and Antonio Goldberg-Calderon from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur-Gay

Requested by Anon

Status; Alive and married

[jewish-joy]

The Jewish lesbians sharing sugared dates in a Tupperware bowl in the back of the minyan is a nonexistent romance cliche I never knew I needed.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Annie Edison from Community-Asexual Lesbian

Requested by Anon

Status; Alive

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

If I had a nickel for every time someone here said my existence as a bisexual Jewish Israeli is “pink washing “….

Our experiences and mere existence aren’t wrong or distracting.

One thing that especially bothers me about the Chicago D*ke March is the implication that LGBT Jews merely existing is inherently pinkwashing. It politicizes LGBT Jewish identities by stating that all LGBT Jews exist to distract people from the Israel/Palestine conflict. And that is entirely antisemitic and a gross misrepresentation of LGBT Jews.

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[thebrightestwitchofherage]

I’m so excited to write this!!

Today Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of same sex couple once again! Same sex couples’ rights for adoption is now equal and protected under law!

🏳️‍🌈✡️🇮🇱

[socialistexan]

We need to stop talking about how conservatives don't want their kids to know LGBTQ people exist. They do want their kids to know we exist, but we will suffer for it.

They don't want their kids to know that it is okay and acceptable to be LGBTQ, that society will allow them to exist in peace and happiness. That at times LGBTQ people will be accepted.

They want their kids to know that LGBTQ is not okay or acceptable. That if they are LGBTQ they will be persecuted, marginalized, beaten, and scorned. That if they are they will have a terrible life, so they better g-ddamn be the good little cishet Christian soldier that Mommy and Daddy wanted.

They aren't actually scared that a couple rainbow displays will turn their kids gay or an affirming book will forcibly transition them. They're scared that their already LGBTQ kid will know that them being themselves is a just as valid life and not a one way ticket to misery and then hell.

They want to not just eradicate LGBTQ from existence, they want to have everyone else watch us suffer as a warning to stay in line.

Or maybe that's just LGBTQ survivor of an entire childhood and adolescence under an extreme abusive homophobe of a parent in me, idk why listen to me on this stuff.

[queerasfact]

Father in heaven, who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water, You changed the fire of Chaldees so it would not burn hot, You changed Dina in the womb of her mother to a girl, You changed the staff to a snake before a million eyes, You changed [Moses’] hand to [leprous] white and the sea to dry land. In the desert you turned rock to water, hard flint to a fountain. Who would then turn me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this, being so graced by your goodness.

-Qalonymos ben Qalonymos, Even Bochan, c.1322, translation from Wrestling With God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition by Rabbi Steven Greenberg, p.118-120

In late 1322 or early 1323, French Jewish poet Qalonymos ben Qalonymos completed their book Even Bochan, which features this passage, describing the author's discontent with living as a man, and desire to live as a woman.

You can read a longer version of the passage here, and listen to our podcast on Qalonymos and their place in trans Jewish history here

[hiiragi7]

**EDIT 2/8/25 - WE ARE SAFE!**

Thank you so so much everyone. Update post here.

Please help us leave Arizona

My partner and I are really struggling right now. Things are getting very scary here, there are many trump supporters in our area and we are also being physically harassed by transphobic anti-choice people when we try to visit our local clinic where we get our HRT and bloodwork. We are losing access to our medical care and our apartment has become unsafe to live in due to trump supporters, and the recent election has just made everything much worse here.

We need to break our lease and leave the state. We are planning to return to New Mexico, where I was raised, because I know it will be safer there for us.

Please share or donate if you can, we would really appreciate it a lot.

Thank you to anyone who reads this, and major thanks to anyone who can help in any way.

[noirgasmweetheart]

I just got off the phone with my Dad, a Jewish lifelong Democrat who loathes trump, and who has witnessed a lot of history. He gave me some much needed perspective.

Trump is a grotesque embarrassment, but compared with what our parents and grandparents saw in U.S. politics....that's more or less it.

Many of the GOP's current policies are repugnant, but are also already being overturned in spite of their perceived victories. Missouri of all places overturned its abortion ban just last night.

Social media sites like this one do not reflect an accurate picture of what the general public really thinks, as they attract the most fringe types. Dad suggested paying more attention to sites like the Washington Post, where comments tend to come from more normal people.

The Midterm elections are in only two years. If the Gross Odorous Poopsicles can overturn Roe v. Wayde under a Democrat president, we can certainly do plenty under a deflated 82-year-old pumpkin who many Republicans don't even like.

[anewgayeveryday]

Today's LGBT+ Character is;

Linda Stevens from Hypnospace Outlaw-Bisexual

Requested by Anon

Status; Alive

[yourdailyqueer]

Andrée Jacob (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 22 July 1906 

DOD: 6 February 2002

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: French

Occupation: Spy, journalist, writer

Note: Played an active part in the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was the partner of fellow Resistance member Éveline Garnier.

[theyre-gay-because-i-say-so]

Today's LGBT+ Headcanon is;

Wanda Maximoff| The Scarlet Witch from Marvel Comics-Pansexual

Requested by Anon

Status: Alive

[ed-recoverry]

Happy pride to religious LGBTQ+ folks.

It never doesn’t hurt to see religious people, especially possibly from your own religion, hate you for just existing. Staying true to yourself and keeping your faith while doing so is something to have pride about🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Muslims.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Jews.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Christians.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Hindus.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Buddhists.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Sikhs.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Shintoists.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Taoists.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Vodouists.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Spiritualists.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Shamanists.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Confucians.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Jains.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Baháʼís.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ Zoroastrians.

Happy pride to all LGBTQ+ religious folks.

[dhddmods]

THE BIBLE IS NOT ANTI-QUEER!

We have been dying to make this post for a long time. What we'll be covering includes the following:

Firstly - mistranslations and out-of-context verses.

Secondly - genderqueerness in the Bible.

Thirdly - Jewish cultural genders.

(Content warning for mentions of sexual assault and genital mutilation.)

1st Corinthians 6:9 - 6:10

1st Corinthians 6:9 - 6:10 is mistranslated.

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

"Effeminate" is a mistranslation of malakoi. Malakoi is a man who is weak or cowardly - not a man who is feminine. The mistranslation is based in misogyny, by turning "weak/cowardly" into a feminine trait.

"Homosexual" is a mistranslation of arsenokoitai. Arsenokoitai are men who assault other men - not just a gay man. Its absurd to mistranslate "gay rapist" into just "gay."

Leviticus 22

Leviticus 22 is out of context. Leviticus briefly mentions homosexuality, by stating “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination.”

However, the context of the original Hebrew text and the verses before this is very important. Before this verse, there was a discussion of incest and infidelity between men and women. But none of these texts ever clarified if the laws also applied to male-on-male incest and infidelity. The addition of Leviticus 22 is not to condemn homosexuality, but to clarify that the previously listed laws also apply to gay incest and gay infidelity.

In full context, the verses go as following:

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. I am the LORD. The nakedness of thy father, and the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover; for theirs is thine own nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister; for she is thy mother's near kinswoman. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son' wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are near kinswomen; it is lewdness. And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime. And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to set them apart to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination.”

Eunuchs

The Bible discusses Eunuchs in many different chapters. “Eunuch” was a term used to describe three things:

A man whose penis was removed, due to slavery or a desire for abstinence. 

A person who was born with a male-appearance, but no penis; a type of male-appearing intersex person.

Or a person who removed their penis due to not identifying as a male; a transgender or altersex person, or an intersex person whose penis did not align with the rest of their experiences.

Each of these definitions can be seen in Mathew 19, Verse 12.

“For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

Further evidence that some eunuchs are non-binary can be seen in Isaiah 56, Verse 4-5.

“For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.”

Jewish cultural genders

In Jewish culture (which is where Jesus is from), there were eight recognized genders - Zachar, Nekevah, Aylonit Hamah, Aylonit Adam, Saris Hamah, Saris Adam, Androgynos, and Tumtum.

(Zuh-car) Zachar was the term for people who were born with male traits, and lived their life as a man. In modern terms, this is a cisgender man.

(Neck-eh-vuh) Nekevah were people who were born with female traits, and lived their life as a woman. This would be a cisgender woman.

(Eye-low-night Hah-maw) Aylonit Hamah were people who were born with female traits, but naturally developed male traits later in life. This describes people who were intersex, and had hormonal variations that caused male traits to develop.

(Eye-low-night Ah-dom) Aylonit Adam were people who were born with female traits, but developed male traits through human intervention. This describes trans-men or masculine non-binary people.

(Saw-riss Hah-maw) Saris Hamah were people who were born with male traits, but naturally developed female traits later in life. This describes people who were intersex, and had hormonal variations that caused female traits to develop.

(Saw-riss Ah-dom) Saris Adam were people who were born with female traits, but developed female traits through human intervention. This describes trans-women or feminine non-binary people.

(And-draw-joe-naws) Androgynos were people who were born with a mix of female and male traits. This described intersex people who had ambiguous genitals, or otherwise appeared to have a mix of genitals. Modern Jews also use it to include non-binary and altersex people with androgynous identities.

(Pronounced exactly how it's spelled) Tumtum were people who were born lacking sex traits. This described intersex people who were on the agenital spectrum - people whose genitals were small or obscured. Modern Jews also use it to include non-binary and altersex people with neutral identities.