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November 25

Have Eastern Orthodox Christians ever engaged in proselytization in large numbers?

Have Eastern Orthodox Christians ever engaged in proselytization in large numbers? If so, when and where?

The only recent case that I'm aware of this is the mass reconversion of Adjarians from Islam to Georgian Orthodox Christianity over the last 30 years, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and after Georgia regained its independence. Futurist110 (talk) 00:32, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what qualifies as large numbers, but there is a proselytizing Coptic Orthodox church in Bolivia... [1]. --Soman (talk) 01:22, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, but the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is composed of Oriental Orthodox Christians as opposed to Eastern Orthodox Christians. Futurist110 (talk) 02:21, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Futurist110 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Prominent gender non-conforming politicians in Western republics before the last several decades?

Which prominent gender non-conforming politicians in Western republics were there before the last several decades? Futurist110 (talk) 21:32, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Georgina Beyer was the first openly transgender mayor and later Member of Parliament, according to her article, but that was in 1995 and 1999. Presumably you want earlier examples than that.-gadfium 21:42, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the farther back, the better! Futurist110 (talk) 21:57, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Stu Rasmussen was America's first openly transgender mayor in 2008, but was openly gender nonconforming long before that. His political career also starts in the 1990s. Temerarius (talk) 21:51, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They sound like they're genderqueer, no? Futurist110 (talk) 21:57, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

He could be genderqueer and transgender. Stu uses he pronouns and hasn't objected to being called, universally, a transgender person. I don't know specifically which words he uses to describe himself. He did once say "I'm a man who looks like a woman," which I'd say is more gender noncomforming, but again, his identity is whichever words he chooses and I won't talk for him. Temerarius (talk) 03:21, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Try Elagabalus on for size Futurist110. {{u|Squeeps10}} {Talk} Please ping when replying. 22:32, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They were an emperor, no? The Roman Empire was not a republic during their lifetime, was it? (FWIW, I was already well-aware of Elagabalus but specifically limited my question here to republics to exclude Elagabalus.) Futurist110 (talk) 00:48, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Premier of South Australia (equivalent to a state governor in the US) through the 1970s was Don Dunstan. A quote in his article describes him as having "lived as a sexually liberated bisexual man." There's a pic here showing him in his hot pink hot pants. HiLo48 (talk) 00:56, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]