Editing Jewish views on homosexuality (section)

==LGBT-affirmative activities==
[[File:Pride Minyan.jpg|thumb|A halachic egalitarian Pride [[minyan]] in [[Tel Aviv]] on the second Shabbat of [[Hanukkah]].]]
[[File:SF Pride 2014 - Stierch 6.jpg|thumbnail|Marchers at [[San Francisco Pride]] 2014]]
[[File:2015MarchaGayDF039.JPG|thumbnail|upright|A Pride participant wears a rainbow [[kippah]] at the 2015 ''Marcha Gay'' of [[Mexico City]]]]Jewish LGBT rights advocates and sympathetic clergy have created various institutions within Jewish life to accommodate gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parishioners. [[Beth Chayim Chadashim]], established in 1972 in West Los Angeles, was the world's first explicitly-gay-and-lesbian-centered synagogue recognized by the Reform Jewish community, resulting in a slew of non-Orthodox congregations being established along similar lines, including [[Congregation Beit Simchat Torah]] in New York City, [[Bet Mishpachah]] in Washington, D.C., and [[Congregation Or Chadash]] in Chicago. Beth Chayim Chadashim now focuses on the entire LGBT community, rather than just gays and lesbians.

LGBT-inclusive services and ceremonies specific to Jewish religious culture have also been created, ranging from LGBT-affirmative [[haggadah|haggadot]] for [[Passover]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jqinternational.org/haggadah.php |title=GLBT Passover Haggadah |publisher=JQ International |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112112252/http://www.jqinternational.org/haggadah.php |archive-date=November 12, 2012 }}</ref> to a "[[Stonewall riots|Stonewall]] Shabbat [[Passover Seder|Seder]]".<ref>{{cite web |author=Mark Horn |url=http://stonewallseder.com/ |title=The Stonewall Seder |access-date=November 26, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=April 17, 2008 |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/an_old_story_finds_new_life_in_lgbt_haggadah_20080418|title=An old story finds new life in LGBT haggadah|author=Nick Street|publisher=Jewish Journal |access-date=November 26, 2014}}</ref>

In October 2012 Rainbow Jews, an oral history project showcasing the lives of Jewish bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender people in the United Kingdom from the 1950s until the present, was launched.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Rainbow Jews |title=About us |url=http://www.rainbowjews.com/about-us/}}</ref> It is the United Kingdom's first archive of Jewish bisexual, lesbian, gay, and transgender history.<ref>{{cite news |author=Hephzibah Anderson |date= February 12, 2014 |title=Trove of Jewish LGBT history goes on display in U.K. |newspaper=Haaretz |url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.573723 |access-date=November 26, 2014}}</ref>

The [[ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives]] has, among other things, the Twice Blessed Collection, circa 1966-2000; this collection "consists of materials documenting the Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender experience, circa 1966-2000, collected by the Jewish Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Archives, founded and operated by Johnny Abush".<ref>{{cite web |title=Finding aid of the Twice Blessed Collection, circa 1966-2000 Coll2010.003 |publisher=Online Archives of California |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6z09s281/ |access-date=November 26, 2014}}</ref>

Recent research by the sociocultural psychologist, Chana Etengoff, has highlighted the therapeutic benefits of LGBTQ petitions to religious leaders, including meaning-making, social action, agency and empowerment.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Etengoff|first=Chana|date=2016-04-04|title=Petitioning for Social Change: Letters to Religious Leaders From Gay Men and Their Family Allies|journal=Journal of Homosexuality|volume=64|issue=2|pages=166–194|doi=10.1080/00918369.2016.1174022|issn=0091-8369|pmid=27046269|s2cid=40419307}}</ref>