Next Meeting
SFNCY Monthly Meeting
May 27th -- 6:30 PM
LGBT CENTER -- 208 W. 13th Street
At last month's meeting we shared issues in our workplaces, schools, and communities of faith which affect LGBT people and brainstormed creative and non-violent solutions. This month, we will make plans to address these issues and move those around us toward reconciliation. Join us as we begin a multi-month drive to create safe spaces throughout the city.
SFNYC In Action
Coming Up
SFNYC at Marble Collegiate Church
June 26th -- 6:00 Dinner, 7:00 Program
Marble Collegiate Church (29th St & 5th Ave)
Participants from the 2007 Soulforce Q Equality Ride will join members of the GIFTS program at Marble Collegiate Church for dinner conversations and a presentation about the Equality Ride, the intersection of faith, identity, and advocacy, and the ongoing work that Soulforce and SFNYC is engaged in. All are welcome to attend.
Reach Out
If you feel silenced, marginalized, or oppressed in your religious, academic, work, or civil environment, please reach out to Soulforce NYC. We exist to counter anti-gay and anti-trans forces in the city fueled by religious misunderstanding and rhetoric and we want to help; by meeting with you, by preparing you to address the injustice, by getting your story out, by standing with you, or even just by listening.
All communication is sensitive and private.
Creating Positive Change, Countering Spiritual Violence
SFNYC: Soulforce NYC is a local chapter of Soulforce, a national organization committed to realizing freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people through the practice of relentless non-violent resistance.
Prejudice and misunderstanding are globally pervasive and exist today, even in metropolitan cities such as New York. Soulforce NYC recognizes that anti-gay and anti-transgender religious rhetoric permeates the discussions surronding acceptance of LGBT individuals as full members of both faith and civic communities. What begins as a sermon from the pulpit ends as a law on the books. Spiritual violence, the misuse and abuse of faith, against gay and transgender people affects us all.
SFNYC recongizes that negative rhetoric is not the only message coming from communities from faith concerning gay and transgender people. Join us as we boldly confront anti-gay and anti-trans forces in New York City. This is a place where you can enact positive change.
SFNYC meets at 6:30 PM on the last Tuesday of every month in New York's LGBT Center to plan, train, educate, and activate New Yorkers. We are a space for young and old, religious and atheist, gay and straight, to come together to create positive change. Soulforce NYC is more than just a monthly meeting or a volunteer organization; it is an organization which actively seeks to foster and develop the next generation of leaders. Whether you have participated in Soulforce actions in the past or are looking to get started, there is a place for you. Please join us at the next meeting. For more information, email info@sfnyc.org
If you are unable to be involved locally but still wish to support the mission of SFNYC, we are constantly looking to hear stories connected to New York. You can also support SFNYC financially through donations.