Pride Month Spotlight: Susan Russell
Throughout June, we’re celebrating LGBTQIA+ people who have shaped our church and our world – trailblazers, advocates, saints, and quietly persistent troublemakers who got us here. Today, we spotlight someone still very much in the arena.
The Rev. Susan Russell is a priest and one of the most prominent LGBTQ+ advocates in the Episcopal Church, known for decades of sharp, faithful, persistent work pushing the church toward full inclusion. That work continues today: Russell is chairing the Task Force on LGBTQ+ Inclusion behind “Full and Equal: 50 Years in Pursuit of a Promise,” the September gathering in Minneapolis marking 50 years since the 1976 General Convention declared that LGBTQIA+ people have a full and equal claim to the church’s pastoral care. History isn’t just something Russell studies. She’s actively writing it.