{"id":296,"count":1,"description":"Mitchell Gold grew up in the suburbs of Trenton NJ. Together with his former partner, Bob Williams, he\r\nopened the Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams Furniture Company in Taylorsville NC, which at one point\r\nhad 3 plants and 25 locations and additionally made upholstered furniture for Pottery Barn and William\r\nSonoma.\r\nGrowing up, Mitchell experienced tremendous anxiety and depression over his sexual identity and later,\r\nas the head of a furniture company in rural NC, his employees approached him with questions about his\r\nhomosexuality and how he reconciled that with comments they were hearing from their preachers on\r\nSunday mornings that homosexuality was a sin. So for many years he has been leading a campaign\r\nagainst religion-based bigotry \u2013 the invocation of biblical authority to justify denying rights to individuals\r\non the basis of their sexual identity. He has served on the Human Rights Campaign board, started his\r\nown organization, Faith in America, and served on the True Faith Doesn\u2019t Bully Committee of the Tyler\r\nClementi Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to ending online and offline bullying in schools, workplaces\r\nand faith communities.\r\nMitchell co-edited, Crisis, an anthology of coming out stories including ones from Nate Burkas, Candace\r\nGingrich, Barney Frank and Richard Chamberlain. Mitchell\u2019s primary goal has been to develop\r\ncommunications with religious leaders who preach against the LGBTQ+ community, to open their eyes\r\nand get them to reflect on their biases and bases for their harmful beliefs.\r\nwebsite: https:\/\/mghindsightforward.com\/","link":"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/speaker\/mitchell-gold\/","name":"Mitchell-Gold","slug":"mitchell-gold","taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nMitchell-Gold Archives - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uufranklin.org\/wpz\/speaker\/mitchell-gold\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mitchell-Gold Archives - UU Fellowship of Franklin, NC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mitchell Gold grew up in the suburbs of Trenton NJ. Together with his former partner, Bob Williams, he opened the Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams Furniture Company in Taylorsville NC, which at one point had 3 plants and 25 locations and additionally made upholstered furniture for Pottery Barn and William Sonoma. Growing up, Mitchell experienced tremendous anxiety and depression over his sexual identity and later, as the head of a furniture company in rural NC, his employees approached him with questions about his homosexuality and how he reconciled that with comments they were hearing from their preachers on Sunday mornings that homosexuality was a sin. So for many years he has been leading a campaign against religion-based bigotry \u2013 the invocation of biblical authority to justify denying rights to individuals on the basis of their sexual identity. He has served on the Human Rights Campaign board, started his own organization, Faith in America, and served on the True Faith Doesn\u2019t Bully Committee of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to ending online and offline bullying in schools, workplaces and faith communities. Mitchell co-edited, Crisis, an anthology of coming out stories including ones from Nate Burkas, Candace Gingrich, Barney Frank and Richard Chamberlain. 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