Awareness

In response to Dominic Conover’s commentary in the Advocate entitled “I Won’t Let the Catholic Church Silence Any More LGBTQ Students,” DignityUSA has sent the following letter to the Archbishop of Indianapolis. We urge those who agree to send a letter of their own.      August 2, 2019   Archbishop Charles Thompson Archdiocese of

Organizations SAGE Advocacy and Services for LGBT Elders www.sageusa.org see SAGENET list of 28 local national affiliates 305 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 212-741-2247 National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (coordinates with SAGE) www.lgbtagingcenter.org 212-741-2247 American Society on Aging www.asaging.org 415-974-9600 or 800-537-9728 check the LGBT Aging Issue Network (LAIN) National Center for Transgender

July 22, 2019. Over 125 Catholic theologians, community leaders and activists have sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlining strong concerns to the recently announced Commission on Unalienable Rights. Mary Ann Glendon, a Catholic known for advocating “natural law” as a basis for policy, has been tapped to head the commission. The

Boston, MA. June 25, 2019. Leaders of DignityUSA, the world’s oldest organization of Catholics supporting equality and full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) Catholics in the church and society deplore the continuing and systematic discrimination against LGBTQI people in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. On Sunday, Cathedral High School announced its decision

Boston, MA. June 21, 2019.  Leaders of DignityUSA, the world’s oldest organization of Catholics supporting equality and full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) Catholics in the church and society, say they are “in absolute solidarity” with Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. The Indianapolis high school, run by the Jesuit order, has

June 10, 2019, Boston, MA. The Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education today released a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them: Toward a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.” Leaders of DignityUSA, the organization of Catholics who support justice, equality, and full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer

This letter was sent to all US Senators May 10, 2019   United States Senate Washington, DC 20510   Dear Senator: We are writing to urge swift action and your full support of the Equality Act, S.788. DignityUSA, marking 50 years of working for equality for LGBT Catholics in our church and society, represents the

Dear Fellow Catholics,                 I have spoken with dozens of you in the days following the close of the much-touted Vatican sex abuse summit. To a person, you have expressed disappointment, frustration, sadness, anger, even disgust at the failure of this gathering to produce even the most minimal substantive universal policy change. As one of

January 23, 2019. Boston, MA. DignityUSA, the organization of Catholics that has been working for justice, equality, and full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people in church and society for fifty years, denounced the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to bar many transgender people from U.S.