IGLYO on... RELIGION
n.4 - December / 2007
Dear friends,
Dear friends,
with this magazine we’re providing you with a broad repertory of topics around the issue of LGBTQ life and religion. The dialogue within IGLYOs community has been started this year by a Study Session in Budapest that aimed at builing bridges to the unknown.
Religious faith is somehow challenging for us as LGBTQ young people in manifold dimensions. The rapid changes of our societies provide us with new choices around our ways of identities, loves, lives and intimacies. But enhancement of lifestyles is also challenging and demanding to individuals and can be seen as a danger for those, who believe and rely on only one overaching paradigm of intimate relationship.
Religious communities often try to push very traditional and strict models of families and partnerships, marked by heteronormativity that comes along with LGBTQ-phobia. This must not be the case, as there are ways of interpreting holy sources and religious use in LGBTQ inclusive manners.
This edition of IGLYOs bulletin is one step in this direction, towards inclusive dialogues: between LGBTQ community and faith based communities, but also within the LGBTQ community among people with different religious backgrounds.
Enjoy the reading!
The IGLYO Board,
Björn, Bruno, Darren, Fabio and Lucy
IGLYO on.... No.4, december 2007
Project Coordinator: Fabio Saccà
Editors: Lucy Nowottnick
Design Editor: Fabio Saccà
Contributors: Colette Farrugia Bennett, Alexey Bulokhov, Alon S. Chen, Sophie in't Veld, Nanna Moe, Lucy Nowottnick, Josè Cristobal Rueda Sanchéz, Bruno Selun, Yoav Sivan, Oliver P. Spinedi, Carmen Daniela Stepan.
Proofreading: Christopher Beaton
Design & Layout: Assaf Arbel, www.assafarbel.com
Printer: NUOVAGRAFICA, www.tipolitonuovagrafica.it
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