LGBTQ

No matter who you are,

Wherever you are on life’s journey

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE.

Rockville United Church is open and welcomes all persons:  gay, straight, lesbian, bi, trans, questioning, all those in between, and those who love them.

The LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, & Questioning) Outreach Group

Meets monthly after worship (12:15 pm) in the Conference Room to share lunch, reflection, prayer, discussion, and planning activities.  We welcome all!

Our Mission Statement

As members of an Open and Affirming, More Light congregation called by God to love one another, the LGBTQ Outreach Group of Rockville United Church strives through advocacy, education, words, visible signs and actions to welcome all into a place of sanctuary and community celebrating differences in sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Events

The LGBTQ Group and Friends - will attend a showing of Next Fall (described below) on Sunday afternoon, February 26th, at 3:00pm.   The show is at the Roundhouse Theatre in Bethesda, MD.   

Two men in love, two parents in denial, two friends on speed dial. Next Fall is a contemporary love story that will make you smile, laugh, and cry. It won the hearts and minds of Broadway, capturing a 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award as Best New American Play and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.

Annual Blue Christmas Service:  a worship service that offers hope and comfort for those who feel blue at Christmas.    

2011 LGBTQ Worship Service & Fall Event:  Speaker:  Rev. Chris Glaser, a widely known lecturer and writer who has devoted his professional career to reconciliation between the church and the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community.  http://www.chrisglaser.com/

2010 LGBTQ Spring Event:  Speaker:  Dr. Mary Elizabeth Hunt, co-founder of WATER (Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual.)  http://www.waterwomensalliance.org/

2011 LGBTQ Spring Event:   Pizza, screening, and discussion with youth of Bullied!  A Student, a School, and a Case that Made History.  A beautiful documentary that chronicles one student’s torment at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. o Teaching Tolerance:  http://www.tolerance.org

Annual Capital Pride Festival:  float building and marching in the Capital Pride parade in 2011.

Marriage Equality:  lobby for Marriage Equality legislation with the Maryland State delegates. 

      Equality Maryland: http://www.equalitymaryland.org/

      National Gay & Lesbian Task Force: http://thetaskforce.org/