Abstract
Indeed, I am grateful—for I belong to a generation that has entered a new land where many of us were, not so long ago, excluded. Within the liberal Jewish world today, many of us in the LGBT community find ourselves for the first time in history able to participate openly in synagogues, seminaries, schools, organizations, and communities accessible in the past only to those who hid their identity. We have gained powerful Jewish institutional allies in our battle for healthcare and adoption rights, and though civil marriage rights are not yet broadly won, marriagerites—religious recognition of our