Mayra David is straight ally from Harlem, NYC having lived in different parts of the world growing up. She believes the time is now for straight allies to step up do something pro-active about the blatant injustice toward LGBT people that unfortunately, and unbelievably, still exists in this day and age. She began working with Soulforce NYC on the Seven Straight Nights campaign and is excited to part of future non-violent, justice-seeking actions.

A Call for Resources

by Mayra David

Jan 08, 2009 8:10 AM

I’m so excited for what SFNYC is going to bring in 2009. I can feel the energy and anticipation grow even as we discuss and prepare our next equality-seeking action. At our last meeting, the group came up with a great idea: let’s pool our resources and put together new Soulforce NYC literature for hand outs, training, etc. This will be useful as we begin to reach out to folks who still think being queer is sick and sinful.

For hand outs I think we need an attractive pamphlet that gives an overview of what SFNYC does and where can people find us on the web. More importantly we need to get our mission and method across. And since we’re so specific about working on erradicating homophobia based on religious rhetoric I think the literature needs to give an example of that…like a demo. Just something short that’ll get people to visit the website and read more.

Maybe take one of the more famous “clobber passages” in the bible and put a sound pro-equality argument right next to it…?”
We also mentioned some great books that deal with homosexuality and faith. We decided to create this post so everyone could share their resources and ideas.

Please share your thoughts on what might be helpful or enriching—either for SFNYC in general or specific recommendations for the new literature—in the comment section below.