Ep 69 Revd Jide Macaulay

<p>Davina Vencatasamy spoke to Revd Jide Macaulay about LGBTQ+, racial and intersectional issues in psychotherapy, music therapy, and society.</p> <p>Reverend Jide Macaulay (he/him/momma) is the Founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.houseofrainbow.org/">House of Rainbow</a> CIC. Openly gay British Nigerian born in London, he has been a Christian minister since 1998. He is an Anglican Priest and inspirational speaker, author, poet, pastor and preacher and an HIV Positive activist. Jide holds a degree in Law, master’s degree in Theology and Post-graduate certificate in Pastoral Theology.</p> <p>Revd Jide Macaulay focuses his ministry on inclusion and reconciliation of sexuality, spirituality, and human rights. He is also a former Board of Trustee at Kaleidoscope Trust UK.</p> <p>Currently Jide is a Chairperson at INERELA+ Europe, an international network of religious leaders, living with, or personally affected by HIV.</p> <p>Jide is a Patron at <a href= "https://www.reportout.org/">ReportOUT</a>, Vice Chair <a href="https://www.onevoicenet.org/">One Voice Network</a>, HIV mentor at <a href= "https://www.positiveeast.org.uk/">Positive East</a>, Nominee British LGBT Award 2021 - Top 10 Outstanding Contribution to LGBT+ Life,  <a href= "https://www.naz.org.uk/noscars">nOSCARS</a> Award winner 2014, 2017, 2018, Volunteer Chaplain at <a href= "https://www.mildmay.org/">Mildmay HIV Hospital</a> and Volunteer Champion at Africa Children's Charity.</p> <p><em> "I will like see more unity and love within the LGBTIQ+ community, we must recognise that we are strengthened when we stand together against the sequence of hatred in this world, by doing so we make a difference across oceans and the sky is the limit for our desired change in this world."</em></p> <p><a href= "https://londonfriend.org.uk/50LGBTQLondoners/revd-jide-macaulay/">https://londonfriend.org.uk/50LGBTQLondoners/revd-jide-macaulay/</a> </p>