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Peterson Toscano

Peterson Toscano
Location
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Birthday
February 17
Company
p2son productions
Bio
Musings of Peterson Toscano, a quirky queer Quaker where he writes about sexuality, gender, faith, veganism and so much more! Peterson is the creator of Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House. An actor, playwright and activist his other works include Transfigurations, a play about transgender Bible characters


Some of you may have heard through Facebook or on the blogs about Bryce Faulkner, a college-aged man from Arkansas who many believe has been coerced to attend an ex-gay program. As far as we know, Bryce is not a minor, but is a college-age young adult.

According to Waymon

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Job of the Week

Job of the Week

Recently the UK-based website Ideas Tap interviewed me for their on-line magazine featuring me in their Job of the Week section. They were especially interested in potentially controversial aspects of my work as a queer theatrical performance activist.

People often ask me if I

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JULY 7, 2009 10:59AM

Ex-Gay Survivors On-Line


Gay & Lesbian ReviewThe current issue of the Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, an LGBT journal that comes out Of Harvard University and which provides “a forum for enlightened discussion of issues and ideas of importance to lesbians and gay men” has in it an/

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A few years ago I began text messaging a select group of friends with random “Jesus Loves You!” messages. These were short reflections, some silly, some serious, about Jesus, what we have been told about him, the Christ that he has become, and the swirl of pop culture that has celebrated/

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JULY 2, 2009 4:54PM

Leading and Choosing


People often ask me,

“How did you come up with the idea to write a play about transgender Bible characters?” “Why do you do it?”

Reflecting on my own journey around transgender issues and in getting to know people with transgender histories, I recall that the first time I reme

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