After the storm, comes the rainbow.
Today is May 17th, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT), a date chosen in commemoration of the World Health Organisation decision to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the International Classification of Diseases on this day in 1990. Last Sunday I attended and sang with my LGBTS inclusive choir, Choral Confusion, at an IDAHOBIT service St. Anne's Church, an LGBTI inclusive Church attached to the iconic bells of Shandon in Cork. The address at the service was delivered by Sarah Jane Cromwell, who spoke of a life of rejection and profound suicidal despair coupled with a calling to spiritual ministry that for many years, it was impossible to fulfil in a Christian Church unable to recognise Sarah Jane as a now woman who had once been a girl in a boy's body. Looking around the small sunlit Church, Sarah Jane spoke of how desperately she had needed allies of faith in the years that everything about her had been deemed wrong...
