Forty Percent of US Homeless Youth Are Gay
This is brutal and tragic and has to stop: Research done by San Francisco State University’s Family Acceptance Project, which studies and works to prevent health and mentalhealth risks facing … Continue reading
A Lone Buddhist Manifesto
As a trans-queer Buddhist, I find that I must walk the path of the outcaste, the radical faerie, the siddha. I practice on the fringes of sangha, always on the margins, … Continue reading
Remembering Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Communist
Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” By hir wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt. Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, … Continue reading
Sangharakshita: Anti-establishment Buddhism
Tricycle: How do you account for Buddhist monasticism, at least as you experienced it, as having evolved in such a uninspiring way? Sangharakshita: Initially, the Buddha’s teachings had to be preserved through … Continue reading
Radical Faeries: Modern Day Siddhas
[Developing story: I will be expanding on this article over the next little while, eventually to become part of a book on tantric Buddhism as engaged practice.] Danielle Levitt, photographer, … Continue reading
New York Insight’s New LGBTQ Sangha
NYC-area Trans*buddhists and allies, We thought you might be interested in this new group. Sorry for the short notice! This is the second sit of the newly-formed NYI LGBTQ sangha, … Continue reading
Outcastes as Activists: Mama Tits Gives Homophobia the Tantric Twist
“You have no power here. Be gone before someone drops a house on you!”
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