Friday, September 28, 2012


Transgendered Episcopal Chaplain at Boston University

New Episcopal Chaplain a Role Model
Cameron Partridge, first openly transgendered chaplain

By Rich Barlow
http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/new-episcopal-chaplain-a-role-model/
Sept. 27, 2012

The Rev. Cameron Partridge says his Episcopal Church is evolving its acceptance of transgendered people. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

You probably aren't aware that November 20 is the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. Cameron Partridge is. The observance began after the 1998 murder of a transgendered Boston woman. November 20 also happens to be Partridge's birthday (he turned 38 in 2011), and BU's new Episcopal minister, the University's first openly transgendered chaplain, once shuddered at a birthday that reminded him both about his own mortality "and that you could be killed."

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