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Clyde Hall
Clyde Hall is an internationally recognized and acknowledged authority of Native American culture, dance ritual and folkways. Clyde was born and raised in Fort Hall, Idaho and is a Native American of... Read More
Nicole Hamel
Nicole Hamel est née à Cap-rouge près de Québec. En 1968, après avoir obtenu un Baccalauréat en Catéchèse à l’Université Laval, Québec, elle s’est mariée à un homme qu’elle a... Read More
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford may be America's earliest certifiable lesbian minister. According to Lisa M. Tetrault (see below), Phebe Ann (Coffin) Hanaford was born in Siasconset on Nantucket Island on May 6, 1829,... Read More
Rev. Dr. Tom Hanks
The Rev. Dr. Tom Hanks has served as a missionary in Latin America since 1963, first with the Latin American Mission as professor of Hebrew Bible at the Latin America Biblical Seminary in San Jose, Costa Rica... Read More
Most Rev. Stan Harris
The Most Rev. Stan Harris, D.D. was born in in Glenelg/Adelaide, South Australia on April 8, 1944. Born of Presbyterian parents, he converted to Catholicism in 1956, realizing he was gay about six months later!... Read More
Brenda Harrison
Brenda Harrison has been an active member of the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians (www.eflgc.org.uk) since 1987, serving as co-convenor for several... Read More
Rev. Dr. Rodger D. Harrison
The Rev. Dr. Rodger DeLong Harrison was born in the Mary Imogene Bassett hospital, Cooperstown, New York, on June 16, 1928. His mother, Marion DeLong Rose Harrison, was a stay-at-home-mother in their Mount Vision,... Read More
Rev. Elder Jeri Ann Harvey
Rev. Elder Jeri Ann Harvey was born January 3, 1934, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (USA) into a Cherokee nation family. This heritage was an important aspecet of Jeri Ann's identity. She graduated from high school... Read More
Rev. Vin Harwell
The Rev. Vin Harwell (1947 - 2000) was born in York, Alabama. He graduated from Eckerd College in St. Peterburg, Florida, and later from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Before becoming a... Read More
Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes C.M.
The Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes grew up in Bath, in rural New Brunswick, Canada, in a strict fundamentalist Baptist family. He recalls knowing at a very early age that he was “different” but didn't have words to... Read More
Harry Hay
Harry Hay (1912-2002) is best known as the founder of the U.S. gay movement but is increasingly known as a pioneer of gay spirituality. He started the Mattachine Society in 1950 and launched the Radical Faerie... Read More
Wilhelmina Hein
Wilhelmina Hein was born Willem Hein in the Netherlands in 1947 and emigrated to Australia in 1958 with his family. Discovering a difference about his sexuality and identity at an early age, he grew up in a strict... Read More
Lee Frances Heller
Leo F. Heller, Jr. was born on April 5, 1919, in Youngstown, Ohio, in humble circumstances. He led a singularly undistinguished life finally becoming a resident at the Good Shepherd Mission in Paterson, New... Read More
Mitzi Henderson
Mitzi Henderson was raised in the Presbyterian Church, the child of parents who were devout religious leaders and activists for social justice. Married immediately after college, she was the mother of four young... Read More
Rev. Dr. Carter Heyward
The Rev. Dr. Carter Heyward is an Episcopal priest, professor, theologian, activist, and writer. A pioneer in the areas of feminist liberation theology and the theology of sexuality. Heyward was born August 22,... Read More
Rev. Anita Hill
Anita Carol Hill was ordained to the Lutheran Ministry of Word and Sacrament in an extra ordinem service on April 28, 2001. One currently seated bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)... Read More
Malcolm Himschoot
Rev. Malcolm Himschoot completed his undergraduate study at Amherst College and then went on to get his Masters of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. Malcolm was ordained into the... Read More
Rabbi Linda Holtzman
Rabbi Linda Holtzman is the Director of Practical Rabbinics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Temple University, her bachelor... Read More
Rev. Daniel Hooper
The Rev. Daniel M. Hooper was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1947. Hooper was educated at California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California, and studied for his M. Div. at Pacific... Read More
Rev. Elder John Hose
The Rev. Elder John H. Hose was a native Ohioan who held an A.B. degree from Elmhurst College, a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary, and a Master of Science in Education from the University... Read More
Rev. Dr. Laud Humphreys
Laud Humphreys was born Robert Allan Humphreys on October 16, 1930, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. His parents were Ira Denver and Stella Bernice Humphreys. His brother Howard was twenty years older and brother William... Read More
Dr. Mary E. Hunt
Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., is a feminist theologian who is co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. A Catholic active in the women-church... Read More
Dr. Rick Huskey
Dr. Rick Huskey, M.D., D.Min., M.Div., a co-founder of Affirmation: United Methodists for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns, was born May 19, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rick grew up in... Read More
Loraine Hutchins
Loraine Hutchins, Ph.D., is a founder and leader of the U.S. bisexual rights and liberation movement who has increasingly integrated issues of spirituality into her sexuality education work. She co-edited Bi... Read More
Rev. George Augustine Hyde
George Augustine Hyde (1923), who led the first known church to openly minister to and with homosexuals in the U.S., attended a Roman Catholic seminary, though he left before achieving priestly ordination. He ... Read More