{"id":7804,"date":"2014-08-15T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/loveisanorientation\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2014-08-15T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:04:49","slug":"living-in-the-tension-818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/loveisanorientation\/2014\/08\/living-in-the-tension-818\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Tension &#8211; 8\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">Join us for our upcoming Living in the Tension Gathering on <strong>Monday<\/strong>, <strong>August 18th<\/strong>, where we will be discussing sex trafficking.<\/span><br style=\"color: #141823;\"><br style=\"color: #141823;\"><span style=\"color: #141823;\">We have a special guest presenter, Brenna Cyr, who will be discussing LGBTQ sex trafficking in the city of Chicago. Sex trafficking is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/10\/17\/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">worldwide issue<\/a> with over 30 million slaves, 60,000 of whom live in the US. Brenna<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #141823;\">\u00a0is one of Illinois\u2019 most knowledgeable resources on this topic. She studied at the University of Wisconsin and then was a case manager for <a href=\"http:\/\/sa-stopit.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stop-It<\/a>, an NGO that works with any and all victims\/survivors of human trafficking. She spearheaded the Cook County human trafficking task force, specifically leading the subcommittee on LGBTQ sex trafficking. We will be meeting in <strong>Room 124<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5255+N+Ashland+Ave,+Chicago,+IL+60640\/@41.977755,-87.6693596,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x880fd1885fa80be7:0xe3c299d218914e0b\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>5255 N Ashland Ave.<\/strong><\/a> at <strong>7pm<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #141823;\">We meet for dinner beforehand at Lady Gregory\u2019s on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5260+N+Clark+St,+Chicago,+IL+60640\/@41.9778861,-87.6686199,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x880fd1887d6b51e7:0xc1a8f870f3455c7a\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">5260 N Clark Street<\/a>\u00a0at 5:15pm for anyone that would like to join us.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Much love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarinfoundation.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.themarinfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for our upcoming Living in the Tension Gathering on Monday, August 18th, where we will be discussing sex trafficking.We have a special guest presenter, Brenna Cyr, who will be discussing LGBTQ sex trafficking in the city of Chicago. 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