The Coolest T-Shirt (content=clothing, religion, sexuality)

[geminigirl]

So I didn't write anything about Pride cause there wasn't much to tell. aquariumgirl and I staffed the table for work for a couple of hours, ran into some people she knew, although surprisingly enough not really any of my friends. (Where were you clockwatcher?) Then we wandered the festival for a while. I realized I know the people who do gay for a living, which sort of makes me wonder if I'm doing this too long...

And I got the coolest t-shirt in the world (cause I have the greatest girlfriend in the world!)

One of the local synagogues had a booth at the Festival. I've felt, and I've talked about this sometimes before, very disconnected from Jewish community lately...for a couple of years in fact. Since I left GW, I haven't found a Jewish home. And that's okay I suppose...I go when I feel the need to, I have family for the important holidays, but it's still strange to be so disconnected from something that is important-although the precise measure of its importance varies from time to tome. I need a place that welcomes me as a whole person, which means also as a queer person. But I'm not a lesbian, it's not my label. Which means that as a bisexual I also don't always feel comfortable in some gay/lesbian spaces. It's why I don't attend the local gay synagogue...even though they call themselves egalitarian, I don't feel like it's a family friendly place, and I don't feel all that welcome. It's almost like I'd call it "too gay" for me. But anyway, Temple Micah had a booth at the Festival. I've been to Temple Micah before-eight or so years ago, in college. I liked them...I liked the atmosphere, the environment. It's a place I'll probably check out some more. (demonfafa wanna go with me some time? I'll even drive so you won't have to take your car into the city.) The guy at the table was very nice. And I feel like it's not a "gay synagogue" so it's more like the kind of place I want to be...where the diversity is a little more diverse. And they were selling t-shirts. They have the Temple Micah logo, and in pretty rainbow embroidery they say "Pride 5763" which is the year according to the Hebrew calendar. (Okay, maybe it's not the coolest t-shirt if you don't get the whole 5763 thing, but it was the coolest t-shirt to me!)

Whoda thunk that I'd go to Pride and find a possible Jewish home? Not me...

Comments

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Way cool.

I'd like to go with you at some point, maybe. I went to Micah on occasion before they moved from across the street from Arena stage. Back then it was a pretty tiny congregation, and shared the space with St. Augustines. St. Augustines did childcare in the basement for High Holidays; Micah did child care in the basement for Easter and Christmas. But the space had gotten too small for High Holidays by the time I was there, and Saturday school was down the street in another church.

They're on Wisconsin Ave?
(One of the things we did in Saturday school was go around visiting different religious spaces in order to give input on the design of the new building)

Still seems weird driving past St Augustines with only the cross and no menorah on it :)

[geminigirl]

They're way up on Wisconson. They also have a very early Friday night service (6:30 I think, with oneg before at 6.) The building was beautiful, IIRC-but I would have been there when it was still very new. I get the feeling that Michah is socially conscious in a way that's comfortable for me, and has quite a diverse set of programs and interests going on. It looks like it might be worth checking out. Plus they've got a group for people in their 20s and 30s...that never hurts. Especially around here when I complain about never meeting any young Jewish people.

I forget that you're Jewish sometimes...

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

6:30 would be great in that there's time to actually do something later in the evening. Except I would have a lot of trouble getting there from Annapolis in time. 'course I guess I could get in to work for 8 for a change...

*half smile* Well I didn't go to Hebrew School and I teach myself to read Hebrew once in a while and I'm essentially nonpracticing and badmagic isn't Jewish. So there aren't really a lot of clues there :-8

[clockwatcher.livejournal.com]

I know, I missed you! Let's make up for it sometime and get coffee or something.