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Chris Paige
Chris Paige is a transgender identified lesbian who seeks justice through her work as a writer, organizer, and educator. Baptized in a Christian Reformed Church in Lansing, Michigan, in 1971, Chris was confirmed... Read More
Joseph Palacios
Joseph Palacios was born in 1950 in Glendale, California to Joe and Martha Palacios. His father, a sixth-generation Texan with a strong social consciousness, worked as the grounds manager at a golf course in the... Read More
Stephen Parelli & Jose Ortiz
Rev. Stephen R. Parelli, formerly an ordained evangelical Baptist minister who pastored in the states of New York and New Jersey, became the Executive Director of Other Sheep in 2005. Other Sheep (... Read More
Armando Pastor
Angel Armando Pastor Nolasco is coordinator of the social action and HIV/AIDS ministry among the Latino community, operated by St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Union City, New Jersey. Armando grew up in a... Read More
Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik
Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik is the first person to acknowledge, compile and comment on Queer ideas in Hindu metaphysics and mythology. Devdutt (born 1970) was the third child of Prafulla and Sabitri Pattanaik,... Read More
Rev. Fred Pattison
Fred Pattison, founder of The Evangelical Network (T-E-N), has written this first-person account of his life journey and the history of T-E-N. I came into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ... Read More
Rev. Sylvia Pennington
The Rev. Sylvia Pennington was an early pioneer in the Christian GLBT community as an ordained heterosexual woman sharing God’s all-inclusive love with "whosoevers" all over the world. Sylvia began life... Read More
Rev. Elder Troy Perry
The Rev. Elder Dr. Troy D. Perry founded Metropolitan Community Churches with 12 people in his living room in Los Angeles on October 6, 1968. Since that time, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community... Read More
Rev. Michael Piazza
Michael S. Piazza is a spiritual visionary, author and social justice advocate who currently serves as Dean of the Cathedral of Hope, the world’s largest liberal Christian church with a primary... Read More
Rev. Dr. Stephen Pieters
The Rev. Dr. A. Stephen Pieters was born on August 2, 1952, and was raised in Andover, Massachusetts, where his father chaired the Mathematics Department at Phillips Academy. Steve attended Phillips Andover in... Read More
Rev. Ronnie Pigg
Rev. Ronnie Pigg was born third of five children and raised in a small rural southeastern Oklahoma town. There, at the age of 12, he surrendered his life to Christ and, at age 14, accepted the call to the... Read More
Robert C. Pingpank & Canon Richard T. Nolan
Born three days and 120 miles apart, Dick Nolan and Bob Pingpank celebrated their 50th Anniversary in 2005. Both cradle Episcopalians, Bob is a Connecticut native, and Dick is from Massachusetts. Their life... Read More
Dr. W. Norman Pittenger
(William) Norman Pittenger (July 23, 1905 - June 19, 1997) was a foremost 20th century pioneer in the exploration of human sexuality within a Christian context. His 1967 Time for Consent: A Christian's... Read More
Rev. Richard Ploen
The Rev. Richard Ploen was the first ordained minister to offer help to Rev.Troy Perry when he started Metropolitan Community Church. Ploen grew up in southern California. From childhood he attended the Culver City... Read More
Rev. Loey Powell
The Rev. Loey Powell has been out and in active ordained ministry for more than 25 years. She earned her M.Div. degree at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, in 1977 and was called to serve... Read More
Rev. Martin Preston
Martin Preston was one of the founding members of the Gay Christian Movement (now Lesbian & Gay Christian Movement) in the U.K. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Regent's Park College, Oxford,... Read More
Emery Prickett
Emery Lee Prickett was born August 23, 1948 in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California, to Leroy and Norma Prickett. He committed suicide on January 14, 1985 in Covina, California. Emery lived much of... Read More
Rev. Dusty Pruitt
Rev. Dusty Pruitt was born on July 19, 1946, in Ballinger, Texas, the firstborn of three sisters, one 15 months younger and the other 12 years younger. Dusty grew up in Bronte, Texas, a town of just under 1,000... Read More
Chris Purdom
Christopher William Purdom is an amateur Philadelphia poet, graphic artist, and self-proclaimed heretic who was a steering committee member of the Fight the Right Network from 1994 to 1997, co-coordinator of the... Read More