Today on Jewcy: For Pride Month, highlighting “firsts” for queer Jews.

Just in time for Passover, Israel Story brings us the surprising tale of Payam Feili, an Iranian poet who journeyed out of his country, leaving behind almost everything but his identity, and is now searching for a new life in Zion

Traditional rituals have become more inclusive and embracing

The Tri-Faith Initiative brings together a synagogue, a church, and a mosque, with a promise to build bridges between them

Threatening to vote against the government unless the decision is reversed, Amir Ohana nevertheless advocates looking at the bigger picture

The rise in Americans identifying as nonbinary poses a question for synagogues: How to invite some congregants for an aliyah.

Iran Week: Homosexuals and other sexual minorities face increasingly dire circumstances under the repressive Shiite theocracy

A Tablet reading list for Pride

When I decided to physically transition from female to male, I didn’t consciously consider how my relationship to Judaism might change as a result

Joseph Dweck, who’s based in London, has faced criticism for his views on same-sex love

Citing the track’s ‘dangerous rhetoric,’ a group of Canadian college students—who believe the song ‘minimizes the experiences of oppression’—have it all wrong: Lou Reed was a vanguard for gender identity.

Dispatch from the inaugural Brighton Beach Pride Parade in south Brooklyn

Times are changing. Are our sleepaway camps changing with them?

Yeshiva boy Daniel Friedman once built buildings. Now he builds suits to fit the changing bodies of transgender New Yorkers.

Give them some basic rights