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Friday, May 2, 2025

Luke Grayson

Luke Grayson is a 20-something, disabled, queer and nonbinary trans person who has been in Spokane since 2012 and is an advocate for the LGBT and transgender communities, foster youth and those experiencing homelessness. Luke is also a slam (performance) poet and visual artist who experiments with acrylic paint, spray paint, graphite and other mediums, who created a spray paint mural at the Spokane County Fair in 2022. Luke doesn't currently know quite what faith-base they "belong in," but grew up in an evangelical church that they left when they moved to Spokane and has attended an open and affirming UCC church off and on for the last 8 years. Luke uses they/them and he/him pronouns.

How to be a better ally to the transgender community

How can you help? How can you be an effective ally? It all boils down to respecting the person as they are.

Prayer for abusers, but pray for victims too

I recently attended a service at a church where they openly prayed for abusers and their healing but mentioned nothing of their victims.

For many people gay clubs are a sanctuary

About the time that many Spokane Pride goers got home, a man walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and shot more than 100 people, killing 49 of them.

South Carolina – An Issue of Human Rights

This past year the majority of America has become aware of the transgender community and almost everyone has an opinion on if we or our basic human rights should be respected.

Finding closure by saying goodbye to an old church

Too often the stories of LGBT people and their experiences with religion end with hurt and heartbreak

What Christmas means when you don’t have a family

Christmas was never a happy time for me. Most were spent away from my siblings, many in a hospital room, and all of them from age 4 to 17 were spent away from both of my parents and any extended family.

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