Eliel Cruz: The End of Bisexual Erasure (Hopefully)

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Eliel Cruz talks about why, despite the violence it’s caused, religion has remained such a large part of so many LGBTQ people’s lives. He talks about what his prayers look like, coming out in a Christian school, and what his personal beliefs are based on (hint: they’re not based on hurting other people). Eliel Cruz also talks about bi-erasure, pressures to present and act more masculinely as a bisexual man, and why bisexuals are so under-represented in the media. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing [email protected] More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hey, this is LGBTQ and A, where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community.
0:05.3	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and today I'm talking to writer Aleel Cruz.
0:08.5	ALEL writes about religion, bisexuality, gender, and many other things.
0:12.3	Stay tuned. Hey, Aleal.
0:26.6	Good. Welcome to the show.
0:29.1	Thank you for having me.
0:30.2	Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited.
0:31.8	Because I think, I'm excited because I think it's so important to talk and write about
0:36.9	like you do religion because it has become such a taboo subject in our community.
0:42.5	And often rightfully so, right?
0:45.1	Yeah.
0:45.5	Well, I mean, there's a lot, I mean, the reason I think a lot of people, both that are LGBT activists, a lot of gay and lesbian activists who don't want anything to do with religion as well as just people in a community is because that's where our harm is coming from.
0:56.2	That's where that's what's fueling the legislation.
0:58.6	That's what's feeling the hate crimes, the rhetoric that dehumanizes us, that creates violence against us.
1:04.4	So it makes sense.
1:05.7	And I'm really speaking, at least in the United States specifically about Christianity.
1:08.9	Because there is no other religious group that has the same political capital as the evangelical community.
1:15.5	But there are a lot of us who are LGBT people of faith.
1:18.8	I think a Pew Religion report that came out two years ago show that 49% of LGBT, I don't
1:23.3	know why they didn't ask about trans people, but LGBT people identify with Christian faith,
1:26.8	and another 11%
1:29.5	identify with Hinduism, Hindu and Buddhism and things like that. So the majority of people are
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