Reverend Irene Monroe, nationally renowned African-American lesbian activist, scholar and public theologian, will receive this year’s Spirit of Justice Award from Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), New England’s leading legal organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity and expression.
The award will take place at the 13th Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner at the Boston Marriott Copley Hotel on Friday, October 26th 2012.
Reverend Monroe’s powerfully-voiced syndicated queer religion column, written with unconditional love toward all readers, has helped to shape public dialogue on LGBT and racial justice issues. Reverend Monroe’s work aims to highlight how religious intolerance aids in perpetuating other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism and anti-Semitism.
Rev. Irene Monroe was in Thomas Allen Harris's groundbreaking documentray short, "Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing the the Fight for Fairness". Thomas is screening the film at PRIDE Sunday Breakfast in Riverside Church on Sunday, June 24th 2012.
“Reverend Irene Monroe was enthusiastically selected by board and staff for her contributions to the advancement of equality for LGBT people,” said Dianne Phillips, GLAD’s board president. “She has set an inspiring example of leadership and compassion for us all.”
Thomas Allen Harris, founder and director of Chimpanzee Productions, Inc. was the Special Guest Speaker at the Riverside Church's Annual Pride Sunday Breakfast on Sunday, June 24th 2012. Thomas is screening his documentary, "Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing the the Fight for Fairness".
See Rev. Irene Monroe in Chimpanzee Productions’ Marriage Equality clips and film below.
Marriage Equality Film Website: http://marriageequalityfilm.com/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otQqZrFaMFg
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/marriageequalityfilm?ref=ts
13th Annual Spirit of Justice Award Dinner
Friday, October 26th 2012
Boston Marriott Copley Hotel
For more information about the award, visit: https://www.glad.org/event/2012-spirit-of-justice
I think Irene Monroe is an informant (that's on the chitlin' circuit) sent to dissiminate a homosexual agenda that dehumanizes prominent revered black men, most notably Malcolm X. Unlike Donnie McClurkin who admits his struggles with homosexuality, Malcolm is not here here to defend this heresy. If Malcolm had any inkling of a gay tendency they would have slandered him about this years ago. For this to come out about Malcolm in recent years only shows this is propaganda geared toward the black community especially, and is being perpetuated by this apparent lesbian/informant. Our young children are bombarded by this agenda before adolescence and are thoroughly confused by the time they are of age and many of them have the gall to say they are bi-sexual. Sexual relationships are always a personal matter, homosexuality is not a 'race'. Flamboyantly expressing sexuality only shows a need to indoctrinate others with this agenda. If I expressed my natural sexuality with this extroversion you would call me a homophobic? Unless Rev Irene Monroe or Manning Marable were there in the room or saw this with their own two eyes, they are nothing more than gossip mongers.