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Joan Wakeford
Joan Wakeford was born in East London, South Africa, in 1928. Her mother had complications with her pregnancy so came to East London to be with her mother who was a midwife for Joan's birth. Joan's father went to... Read More
Rev. Bernd Wangerin
The Rev. Bernd Herman Wangerin was born on August 5, 1940, in Hamburg, Germany. His parents were Fritz Wangerin and Hildegard born Ronnau. Life in Germany was difficult during the wartime and its aftermath: baby... Read More
Rev. Howard Warren
The Rev. Howard B. Warren, Jr., affectionately known as "God's Glorious Gadfly," was born September 7, 1934, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a graduate of McCormick Theological Seminary; and he held degrees from... Read More
Dr. Mona West
The Rev. Mona West was ordained in the Southern Baptist denomination in 1987 and transferred her ordination credentials to the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Churches (MCC) in 1992. Mona earned her... Read More
Rev. Melvin E. Wheatley
Bishop Melvin E. Wheatley, Jr. a champion of equal rights in the United Methodist Church, died March 1, 2009,after a prolonged illness. He was 93 years old. Recognized in 2000 with a proclamation by the City... Read More
Rev. Robert P. Wheatly
The Rev. Robert P. Wheatly (born 1919, died October 31, 2002) was the second Director of the Office of Gay and Lesbian Concerns of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1977 to 1986. He established the... Read More
Carol A. White
Carol A. White was born in December 1939 in Alexandria, Louisiana. Her parents enrolled her in Methodist Sunday School the day she was born and First Methodist Church was a huge part of her life until she left home... Read More
Rev. Elder Jean White
Rev. Elder Jean White is a native of and resides in London, England. She received her training as a State Registered Nurse at the London Teaching Hospital, Whitechapel, London. Later she received training as a... Read More
Rev. Dr. Mel White
The Rev. Dr. Mel White has been a Christian minister, author, and filmmaker all his adult life. Raised as a evangelical Christian, taught that homosexuality was a sin, he fought to overcome his own homosexual... Read More
Rev. Paul Whiting
Paul was born into the Pentecostal Mafia in 1955 in Great Britain. As a child he remembers Donald Gee, a Pentecostal pioneer, as a visitor to the family home and as a student he became friends with Pentecostal... Read More
Kay Whitlock
Kay Whitlock is the National Representative for LGBT Issues for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization working for peace and demilitarization, human rights, social justice, economic... Read More
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) biography written by Mitchell Santine Gould. As Reverend Troy Perry recently pointed out, “Yes, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is beloved by all people and speaks to all people --... Read More
Amara Das Wilhelm
Amara Das is a disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the Madhva-Gaudiya line of Vaishnava Hinduism. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1974 and received... Read More
Rev. Dr. D. Mark Wilson
Rev. Dr. Doniel Mark Wilson was born the youngest of six children on September 27, 1960, to the proud parentage of a single mother, from whom he learned strong faith in God to dream beyond life’s apparent... Read More
Rev. Elder Nancy L. Wilson
Rev. Elder Nancy L. Wilson has been a part of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches since 1972 when, at age 22 and in her third week of seminary at Boston University School of Theology, she... Read More
Rev. Robert W. Wood
The Rev. Robert W. Wood, author of the first book published in the U.S. on Christianity and homosexuality, was born May 21, 1923, in Youngstown, Ohio, to Edith and Harold Wood. Robert enlisted in the army after... Read More
Rev. Dr. Judith Hoch Wray
Rev. Dr. Judith Hoch Wray is a biblical scholar, a teacher, a homiletician, a writer and a carpenter. Coming out as lesbian in 1969, she has remained committed to integrating her own sexuality and spirituality,... Read More