Judy Osborne is a transgender woman who has been active in the transgender community for more than thirty years. She is past president of The Emerald City in Seattle, a social/support organization for newly-out transgender people, serving on its board for a total of 12 years while promoting the organization’s political outreach. She also served […]
Archives for October 2006
Jay Bakker
Jay Bakker is a 32 year old pastor who grew up witnessing both the good and bad of the church. His parents are Jim and Tammy Faye, ministers-turned-TV-hosts, who helped start both the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club in the 1970’s, and later founded the PTL (Praise The Lord) Club. At the height […]
Gary Nixon, Treasurer
Gary is the co-founder of Soulforce and has been with the organization before conception doing what has been needed from behind the scenes. Working as a team, he and Mel celebrated 28 years of life together in 2009. Gary and Mel live in Lynchburg, VA, where Gary manages the business office and fills orders for […]
Enzi Tanner
Enzi was a rider on the 2008 Equality Ride. He identifies as a transgender man and his passion is doing activism related to matters of faith, gender, race and sexuality. He is very active in his local trans-community and is currently interested in getting his Master’s of Divinity so that he can continue to be […]
Dr. Sylvia Rhue
Sylvia Rhue is the Director of Religious Affairs with the National Black Justice Coalition. Previously, she was employed as the California Freedom to Marry Coalition Manager, the Director of Equal Partners in Faith, and she worked with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights. She also worked at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center as […]
Dr. Rodney Powell
Rodney Powell is a retired physician and gay, African American, who has lived in Hawaii since 1976 with his partner of more than 30 years. While a medical student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee during the years 1957-61, as a student protest leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement, Rodney had the […]