@thislynne.bsky.social
Independent Scholar | Author, Seeking the Straight and Narrow | Writing on religion and AIDS in 80s and 90s San Francisco | #adoptee
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
27.01.2026 19:30 — 👍 30862 🔁 10505 💬 642 📌 338Who's writing knowledgeably and thoughtfully about the US military and how it might (or might not) engage in whatever's coming next?
25.01.2026 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Thank you, @judithweisenfeld.com I hope you know that any of us on the team would be delighted to zoom in to any class you teach.
15.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0For today’s Listening Booth we’re featuring “When We All Get to Heaven” — a 10-episode series on the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, one of the first gay-positive churches, and its courage through the personal, social, and political trials of the AIDS epidemic.
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Rock That Doesn't Roll: The Story of Christian Music | Introducing: When We All Get To Heaven.
#CCM
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Big fan of Linda Gordon's classic The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
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We are so thrilled to see When We All Get to Heaven featured on Apple Podcasts this week.
Follow the story of a queer church as it faces AIDS in 1980s and ’90s San Francisco.
Listen now: apple.co/WhenWeAllGet...
Thank you for seeing (and naming, and liking) a huge part of what we wanted to do with this project. Plus the hymnal thing (how great is that?). Appreciate you listening.
25.10.2025 01:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 3 is out!! Come for Tammy Faye Bakker. Stay for an epic meet cute over a hymnal. slate.com/podcasts/whe...
22.10.2025 21:26 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
How did religious spaces provide care and community during the AIDS crisis? Lynne Gerber looks at the Metropolitan Community Church of SF, a queer church that became a center for activism during the AIDS epidemic.
Don't miss "Building Resistance: On Church, Space, and Crisis."
tinyurl.com/a2acsjhh
Very delighted that this project, so many years in the making, is out in the world today. Listen to learn more about AIDS, about progressive religion, and about how a community gets through a crisis. We all need to know more about that last thing. slate.com/podcasts/whe...
15.10.2025 22:38 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 5The Revealer's 2025 special issue on "Religion, Activism, and Community Action" features insightful and informative articles from @gillianfrank.bsky.social, @dkruzman.bsky.social, @thislynne.bsky.social, @simranjeetsingh.bsky.social, and others! Check it out!
07.10.2025 13:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social
"What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist"
Please consider letting others know that this exists.
pen.org/what-to-do-i...
For the Sept. 16 marathon, global HIV experts will unite online to warn about massive federal budget cuts and help the public understand the benefits of HIV research. @avac.org
www.poz.com/article/acti...
Stopping dictators later means guns and bombs and the bodies of hundreds of thousands of people in the streets. Stopping them now means legislative tricks and pissing off people who already hate you. I wish the remaining sane members of Congress and the judiciary woukd realize that.
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Very happy to say that we met our fundraising goal over the weekend!!!! Thanks to everyone who donated, shared, sent good vibes or otherwise supported us. We can't wait for you to hear When We All Get to Heaven in the fall!!
28.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
We have one week left and less than $1500 to raise. Please help out if you can and share with folks who might be interested. Thank you!!!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
25.07.2025 17:26 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0When Joe Biden referred to "shylocks" in 2014, the ADL admonished him. I look forward to seeing the group similarly criticize President Trump for using the term today.
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We just hit the halfway mark in our fundraiser for When We All Get to Heaven!!!! Want to learn about an amazing experiment in sexuality and spirituality? Want to support queer history in a moment of queer erasure? Help us meet our goal and tell this untold story. givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
02.07.2025 23:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Juli was able to make a phone call late Friday and told her family that: She is in a warehouse, but she does not know the location She believes that the people who picked her up are bounty hunters There are many others being held where she is being held.
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
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Artl.S8.C11.1.1 Overview of Congressional War Powers Article I, Section 8, Clause 11: [The Congress shall have Power .. • I To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; ...
every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried
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Money for AIDS Not for War ACT UP Chicago
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We're bringing a new piece queer history to your podcast feed in the fall. Please support us in getting there. Thanks!! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
21.06.2025 22:56 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Hey, Bluesky! When We All Get to Heaven tells the story of a queer church in San Francisco and how it got through AIDS in the years before treatment. We'd love your support to help us complete the project done and release it in the fall. Thanks! givebutter.com/heavenpodcast
17.06.2025 04:47 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 3This is a good question and it's one I'm getting a lot. The answer is going to depend, in part, on your risk tolerance and the role you plan to play
I've just pushed out a newsletter article with recommendations and advice. Here's a thread with the cliff's notes
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A graphic that reads Free Rümeysa Öztürk with a photo of her.
This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
29.03.2025 14:27 — 👍 7616 🔁 3050 💬 202 📌 126California: Schiffy finally cleaned out his DC voicemail inbox! Fill it up again: (202) 224-3841
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This is shaping up to be the largest of the events outside Senator Padilla's San Francisco District Office asking him to start fighting with every tool available.
12:45pm on Wednesday, outside 333 Bush St
San Francisco.
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
