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Gregg Drinkwater
Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Telephone: 303-691-3562
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Gregg Drinkwater is the director of Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, a nonprofit dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Jewish world, with offices in Denver and San Francisco. He is co-editor of the book "Torah Queeries" (NYU Press, forthcoming) with Dr. David Shneer and Rabbi Joshua Lesser. He serves as vice president of Limmud Colorado and secretary of the World Congress of GLBT Jews. Drinkwater has worked in nonprofit communications, at a daily newspaper in Russia, and as the news editor for Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, the world's most popular LGBT Web sites. He earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also devoted several years to a Ph.D. in history.
Creating Welcoming Communities
LGBT Jewish Inclusion
- Saturday 6:45PM–8:00PM Ballroom Ten Mile
Have lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews "made it" in the Jewish world? Since 2006, the Conservative Movement opened two of its seminaries to gay and lesbian students, the Reform Movement ordained the first openly transgender rabbi, and Reconstructionists elected the first openly gay leader of a national rabbinic body. But too many LGBT Jews are still excluded from full integration into Jewish communal and institutional cultures. Come discuss the future of LGBT inclusion in Jewish life with one of the first openly-gay Conservative rabbinical students, the proud mother of a gay son, the first openly-gay Orthodox rabbi, the founder of Storahtelling, and the staff of Jewish Mosaic.
Twice Blessed
100 Years of Queer Jewish History
- Sunday 3:00PM–4:15PM Foxfire
From 1920s Berlin to 1970s San Francisco and beyond, we'll explore the rich history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jews. Along the way, we'll visit the world’s first gay synagogue, a gay Zionist assassinated by the Haganah, transgender pioneers, the lesbian Chief Rabbi of Modernism and dozens of others. Come find out why LGBT Jews have always been at the forefront of social change.
Paper Dolls
Life in Israel's margins (film screening)
- Sunday 4:30PM–5:45PM Windwood
Come watch and discuss "Paper Dolls," an award-winning Israeli documentary about Philippine emigrants working by day as home care providers for elderly Orthodox Jews and by night performing as the drag queen troupe "Paper Dolls" in Tel Aviv. Although enjoying Israel's liberal atmosphere, they are still treated very much as outsiders. Hailed by the Boston Globe as "a rich and discretely damning portrait of intolerance," this moving film explores the role of immigrant workers in Israel, and the lives of societal outcasts seeking freedom and acceptance. "Paper Dolls [offers] not only an engaging poignancy and depth, but also a powerful universality" (LA Times).
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