Gay affirming church near me

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February 2023: We have recently added two fields to our request build. You will watch LGBTQ-owned? and AAILA-owned? on some entries. These are self-declared fields. AAILA is 'African, Asian, Indigenous, Latin American'.

Religious and Spiritual Groups

• The Beloved Community at The Trees • 919-244-2811 • welcome@belovedcommunitydurham.org  • 1701 Pleasant Leafy Road Durham, NC 27705 • Website •Facebook • The Beloved Community at the Trees is an Episcopal faith community exploring together what a existence of faith "outside of a church" may be. We believe that all are welcome, regardless of race, gender, sexual identity, ability, faith background or belief. •LGBTQ-owned? Yes • AAILA-Owned?No
• Beth El Synagogue • 1004 Watts Street, Durham NC 27701 • 919-682-1238 • info@betheldurham.org • Website • Facebook • Vibrant & diverse pluralistic membership. Egalitarian Conservative congregation with an Orthodox Kehillah. Other alternative services sometimes offered include healing yoga
  
  

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  While PFLAG and it’s chapters are not affiliated with any religious group, as a chapter, we have often shared data regarding religious topics that we felt might be of importance to our members and visitors.  As such, for many years this page was filled with a list of local churches and congregations which we had been advised were welcoming and affirming to gay and lesbian people.  However, over the last few years, we have seen this list grow in size to the point that it is simply not feasible for us to continue to maintain it any longer.

  Therefore, we own decided to share a resource that many hold recommended to us in their own search for a local, affirming Christian congregation:

  http://www.gaychurch.org

  While we know that this resource focuses primarily on Christian churches that are welcoming of lgbtq+ and lesbian people, we know there are many local congregations, both Christian and otherwise, that are welcoming and affirming to not only gay and lesbian people, but to the greater LGBTQ society as well.  While we do not currently contain a comprehensive resource for these congregations, we suggest checking out the lis

  Peoria's affirming churches create reliable space for LGBTQ community

  Peoria's affirming churches are participating in Pride events to make their open and affirming status more known.

  Affirming churches perform lgbtq+ marriages, and allow people to become church leaders regardless of sexuality or gender.

  The Rev. Debra Avery started with United Presbyterian Church in Peoria in 2020. She has worked at churches in California, New York and Arizona, and said working at an affirming church is vital to her because her daughter is trans.

  She said her daughter really opened her eyes to the trauma members of the LGBTQ community face.

  “The everyday trauma, especially for trans people, but even really just for any LGBTQ identifying person, the daily trauma of having to fit in to school, to society, to jobs, that's a daily chipping away at someone's humanity that the church has been part of,” she said.

  Avery is now leading an effort within the church to be more forward about its affirming status.

  “It's not just accepting,” she said. “We accept everybody, right? But it's affirming LGBTQ people as fully human, the full potential for them to be ordained as a mini