Pride might be in June, but we celebrate LGBTQ History Month in October! The Hive is excited to host Pride Shabbat, an experiential evening that will introduce you to notable Jewish LGBTQ figures, discuss how sexuality is addressed in Jewish history, and provide space to embrace and celebrate our sexualities and genders through a Jewish perspective. Our esteemed guest Trudy Morse, Repair the World’s Education Senior Associate, will lead the conversation over this three-course outdoor meal. Get ready for an incredible Shabbat under the rainbow!
Guests will have the choice to purchase a table (up to six guests) for their own pod, or sit at a community table to make new friends (register soon – we can only honor GF and vegan dietary preferences submitted by Monday, October 11th)!
Because this event is centered around a meal, we are requiring that all guests be fully vaccinated and show proof upon entry (either virtual QR code or the physical card in-hand). We’re capping the event at 30 guests.
Trudy Morse (she/her) is a Florida native and currently a Los Angeles based educator, working for Repair the World. Trudy comes to this work with an expansive background in Jewish education from birth through early thirties. In the past Trudy has worked for United Synagogue Youth, Jewish Community Centers, and Hillel. She has a deep love for the intersection of Judaism and justice, and as a queer woman loves to discuss the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and Judaism.
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.