The queering of Leviticus, or how a rabbi permits gay sex
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Rabbi Debra Kolodny
Rabbi Debra Kolodny
That whole thing about Leviticus clearly forbidding sexual relations between two men? Open to interpretation.
At least that’s what Oregon-based Rabbi Debra Kolodny, executive director of Nehirim, the national LGBTQI group, says, based on the idea of “queering the text.”
“Queering the text” refers to any number of paths for looking at Scripture and is “the lens through which we look at our text,” says Kolodny.
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