RfRx - Pride Panel featuring Glenda Jordan, Dr. Ben, and Jason Friedman

Join us this week on RfRx as we celebrate Pride Month with a panel of Recovering from Religion volunteers, plus special guests, sharing their experiences as members of the LGBTQ+ community navigating life in and out of religion. They'll discuss coming out, deconstruction, how to be an ally, and LGBTQ+ resources
Hosted by Kara Griffin, RfR Online Programming Director, and Helen Green, RfR Ambassador
Recorded on June 10, 2024
Resource List:
Gerda Wegener: Danish illustrator who did incredible lesbian erotica. She was also known for her portraits of her partner who was a transgender woman and an artist as well.
Tamara de Lempicka: Bisexual Polish artist who created stunning art deco portraits. Some of her works are also very kink coded. She lived openly and radically.
Lili Elbe: trans woman mentioned above, she and Gerda were partners and she did incredible artwork.
Frida Kahlo: famous Mexican artist known for her authentic self portraits - most know her as the “lady with the mustache”. She created surrealist art about gender, race, Mexican identity, sexuality, and living with chronic pain as a result of a traumatic injury
Félix González-Torres: Cuban-American artist who did devastating art installations about living as a gay man. Content warning for his work - he created pieces about losing a partner to AIDS as well as living with it himself. He died of AIDS related complications at the peak of the epidemic in the 90s.
Rosa Bonheur: absolute badass lesbian French animal+livestock painter in the 19th century. She had to get legal permission to wear trousers while visiting livestock markets to paint and sometimes she would straight up just disguise herself as a man to do so. Her work is beyond incredible, she’s genuinely one of the most skilled animal painters to ever work.
Keith Haring: openly gay American pop artist who did iconic graphic illustrations about social justice, politics, drugs, and safe sex. He died of AIDS related complications in the 90s.
Jasper Johns: gay American abstract expressionist + dada pop artist - set the record for most expensive painting ever sold of a living artist ($110 million!)
Adam Ellis/Adam Tots: gay contemporary comic artist. He does absolutely hilarious pieces about modern issues/pop culture/navigating queerness and leftist politics. He also has fantastic horror/scary story series that are well worth the look into.
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[@ourmobilehomemakeover662]

What a fantastic panel discussion!

[@AlshareefAbdelrahhim]

Ex Muslim here, most of people they don't feel the anger of discovering the pain of wasting your life defending the nonsense of religion, am frustrated😭