Interweave

Our Welcome to Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians, and Trangender Persons

INTERWEAVE @ ALL SOULS N.Y.C. is an alliance of bisexuals, gays, lesbians and transgender persons and their heterosexual friends at The Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City.

Since 1993, All Souls has been a welcoming congregation. This designation is part of a deliberate and ongoing educational process designed to make the church more specifically inclusive to BGLT persons. The entire congregation and its Board of Trustees voted affirmatively to be recognized as a welcoming congregation.

INTERWEAVE strives to involve its members in the general life of the congregation and does not segregate BGLT people from the church's larger scope of activities. It is a consistent presence in the church and provides support to bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender persons.

During the church year, (the week after Labor Day through the week before Memorial Day) INTERWEAVE meets on the first, second and third Sundays of each month at 12:45 pm following the 11:15 am service and coffee-hour. Meetings are organized variously around the INTERWEAVE QUEER FILM SERIES, guest lectures, and topic centered discussions. Programs vary depending on the interests of the members and offer the opportunity for BGLT people to socialize and celebrate together.

Following the Sunday 11:15 service, INTERWEAVE gathers near the rainbow flag on the information table in Reidy Friendship Hall during coffee-hour. Small group discussion and brunch gatherings frequently follow the coffee-hour.

Semi-annual parties or cultural events have become popular events in the INTERWEAVE calendar.

Upcoming Events

For detail about upcoming events, visit the Interweave website. You can also email Interweave chair Rod Sorensen at RodneySorensen@aol.com to be put on the mailing list to be alerted to upcoming events.

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The 2004 Interweave Convocation of the Unitarian Universalist Association, hosted by INTERWEAVE @ ALL SOULS N.Y.C., February 27-29, 2004. Read more about this here.

Our INTERWEAVE QUEER FILM SERIES has shown a diverse program of films of topical interest to members, including most recently American Beauty, Bedrooms & Hallways, Brother Outsider, Latter Days, Kissing Jessica Stein, Chutney Popcorn, Another Country, For a Lost Soldier and It’s in the Water. Films are chosen for their value as entertainment and as catalyst for discussion of contemporary BGLT concerns. An annotated filmography of over 400 films of special interest to the BGLT community has been prepared by the chapter and is available free of charge.

INTERWEAVE members were among those who raised questions about the church's continued funding of the Boy Scouts. This led to the development of our own local alternative to scouting known as The Navigators.

Adult education programs have been offered at the church on books of special interest to INTERWEAVE members, such as Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.

Members assisted at the annual holiday party for the Gay Men's Health Crisis Child Life Program held at the church.

The same-sex marriage issue was the topic of a recent brunch meeting with special guests local State Senator Liz Krueger and leaders from Marriage Equality NY and the Wedding Party. Future adult education programs are being planned on this important topic.

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