Dirty and Sinful, or Holy and Beautiful?

Last night, I was at an LGBT event, as I am every Tuesday night.  It used to be the case that every time I did something LGBT related, I felt my Judaism trickle through my fingers and disappear, as if I couldn't be both at once, but wearing arba kanfot fixed all that...or so I thought.

I don't know what it was about last night's event that triggered me.  I did not feel the old disconnect from God and Judaism; on the contrary, I felt very connected to God and my Judaism, and therein lay the problem. 

Intellectually, I do not believe I am dirty or sinful for being lesbian.  For I am fearfully and wonderfully made (that's a quote from somewhere, just can't remember where), made in God's image, exactly the way God wanted me.  God wanted me this way.  God wanted me this way.

I belong to God.

And of course closing with a picture of the most adorable kid ever, Mr. "Jacob!"