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A Big Gay History of Buddhist Same-sex Marriage (Jeff Wilson, Tricycle)

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, June 2015, byline Jeff Wilson

An article by Jeff Wilson in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, published online June 2015, surveying same-sex marriage across American Buddhist communities. On Soka Gakkai specifically, it states the organization went from treating homosexuality as a condition to be addressed through Buddhist practice to performing large numbers of same-sex marriage ceremonies for its members, a shift the article dates as complete by the end of the 1990s, alongside comparable shifts among American Tibetan, Theravada and Zen teachers in the same period; the ceremonies took place at a time when the state did not yet legally recognize the unions.

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Citation
Publisher
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Publication Year
2015
URL
https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/big-gay-history-same-sex-marriage-sangha/
Source Type
journalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
An established, subject-specialist Buddhist magazine with a named byline; not an official Soka Gakkai publication, so read as independent reporting rather than the organization's own voice.
Notes
Cited for Soka Gakkai's sexuality-position.
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Associated With

Soka Gakkai, Denominations

This source names Soka Gakkai directly: "On Soka Gakkai specifically, it states the organization went from treating homosexuality as a condition to be addressed through Buddhist practice to performing large numbers of same-sex marriage..."

Source A Big Gay History of Buddhist Same-sex Marriage (Jeff Wilson, Tricycle)
Theravada, Denominations

This source names Theravada directly: "shifts among American Tibetan, Theravada and Zen teachers in the same period; the ceremonies took place at a time when the state did not yet legally recognize the unions."

Source A Big Gay History of Buddhist Same-sex Marriage (Jeff Wilson, Tricycle)
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)

This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Denominations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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