Coming Out Whole
A Buddhist teacher explains why she came out as transgender in the nineties.
LGBTQ
We’re Queer And We’ve Been Here
Rediscovering Buddhism’s LGBT history of gay monks, homoerotic samurai, and gender-nonconforming practitioners and gods
Working Through the Strong Emotions of Sexual Identity
On a 40-day meditation retreat, dharma teacher and LGBTQ activist Jay Michaelson came to the shocking realization that, deep down, he would change his orientation if he could.
Meditation Teacher Larry Yang Named Grand Marshal in S.F. Pride
The self-described “queer dharma teacher” talks about Buddhism's role in creating social change.
A Big Gay History of Same-sex Marriage in the Sangha
Without fanfare, American Buddhists have been performing same-sex marriages for over 40 years.
Legislating Love
Letter from California, 2008
CultureMagazine | Editors View
Whaddya Mean, “We”?
So far we have received some fifty responses to the anti-gay letters published in the previous issue. To provide a brief synopsis: in issue number 20 we published an interview with Tibetan scholar Jeffrey Hopkins and…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Bare Bones Meditation
Waking Up from the Story of My Life
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Letters
Letters to the Editor Fall 1996
Hop Hop Hooray Thank you so much for the wonderful interview with Jeffrey Hopkins [Summer 1996], reading which I was inspired to consider the implications of imaginary sexual contact with “a man” as some functional identification—in…
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