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Identifying leaders in religious movements for justice for LGBT persons.
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Yvo Manuel Vas Dias
Yvo Manuel Vas Dias was born on 11 June 1960 in Amsterdam. He is a transsexual man, a Buddhist with a Portuguese-Jewish background. A student of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and a member of the... Read More
Anthony Venn-Brown
Anthony Venn-Brown was born in 1951 and raised in a family with a strong Anglican Church background (Anglo-Catholic). His family were very committed to church life during his early years but as a teenager... Read More
Dan Vera
Dan Vera is the managing editor of White Crane Journal and a founding director of White Crane Institute. White Crane Institute promotes the study of the role of unconventional or queer sexualities and... Read More
Aasmund Vik
Aasmund Robert Vik was born April 17, 1947, on a farm in Fyresdal, a remote part of Telemark, Norway. He was raised in a strict Lutheran village in Setesdal. He studied college at Bø, also in Telemark. During... Read More
Richard Vincent
Richard Vincent was born January 29, 1924, in Kirksville, Missouri. Growing up and going to school there, he later moved to Los Angeles for a year and then joined the Marine Corps during World War II, serving in... Read More
Rev. Rebecca Voelkel
Rebecca Mary MacKenzie Voelkel was born in 1969 into a very Protestant and very politically-active family. At the time, her father, William R. Voelkel (Bill) was a United Church of Christ minister (the... Read More