Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jimmy and a Jamil. I hope you're well. There's so

much chaos. I don't know how you would be. I'm alright. It's a lot, isn't it? It's a lot. It's a lot.

The internet is a lot. The news is a lot. We somehow persist. We are legends. Our generation,

all the generations evolved in this shit show are legends. Speaking of legends, my guest today,

I love this person so much. I met him while I was shooting my little YouTube show a year and a half

ago and he is a young queer Jewish activist who came across my radar because their work is so

exceptional. His name is Adam Eli and he's so so special and has such a fresh take on so many

different subjects and is someone I really look up to when it comes to the way that he engages with

people and engages in certain issues and he's a very respected voice online and came on to

teach me and us many things. One of the things we discuss, which I love so much on this podcast,

is how Adam has taken the teachings of Judaism and applied them to how we can in the same way that

Jewish people show up for each other. The LGBTQ plus community can do the same. Part of why that

is so special is that it's no secret that religion and LGBTQ plus issues haven't always been seen

as simpatico. They haven't always been seen as a peaceful coexistence. To watch someone find

such immense peace with it to the point where they actually extract their most beautiful lessons

from their religion and use it to further find the glory, the love and the support amongst

their sexuality and the LGBTQ plus community at large. I just think it's so fresh and so special

and the way that Adam breaks it down is just so interesting and loving about both existences

and his rocky journey with both existences and what it took to come to peace with both and how he

plans on using that to show up for so many other communities. It's very passionate about the trans

community in particular, black trans women and the ways in which he shows so much concern over how

he will get highlighted. He will get platformed when he talks about issues regarding even the black

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