Megan Rohrer: Difference between revisions

| picture = HonorThemWithAction San Francisco 20170612-6035.jpg

| caption = Rev. Megan Rohrer holds up a rainbow flag with the words "Keep Fighting, Keep Dancing #OnePulse" at the "HonorThemWithAction" vigil in San Francisco, on the one year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando.

| date_birth = April 3, 1980

| place_birth = Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA<ref name="lgbtran-rohrer">{{cite web|title=Rev. Megan Rohrer|url=https://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=394|website=The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network|accessdate=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303105943/https://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=394|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

| nationality = American

| pronouns = [[he/Dr]]

| gender = [[transgender]]/[[genderqueer]]<ref name="Chien">{{Cite web |title=A shepherd finds the perfect flock |last=Chien |first=Jen |work=KALW |date=10 May 2016 |access-date=12 June 2020 |url= https://www.kalw.org/post/shepherd-finds-perfect-flock#stream/0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309173813/https://www.kalw.org/post/shepherd-finds-perfect-flock |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

| occupation = homelessness & LGBTQ activist, historian and writer

| known_for = Seen on Queer Eye

'''Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer''' is an American pastor and activist.<ref name="lgbtran-rohrer" /> Rohrer is the first openly [[transgender]] minister to be ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<ref name="Chien">{{Cite web |title=A shepherd finds the perfect flock |last=Chien |first=Jen |work=KALW |date=10 May 2016 |access-date=12 June 2020 |url= https://www.kalw.org/post/shepherd-finds-perfect-flock#stream/0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309173813/https://www.kalw.org/post/shepherd-finds-perfect-flock |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="elm-rohrer">{{cite web|title=The Rev. Megan Rohrer|url=https://www.elm.org/2010/07/05/megan-rohrer/|website=Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries|accessdate=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421110853/https://www.elm.org/2010/07/05/megan-rohrer/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="ebar-27feb2014">{{cite news|last1=Nahmod|first1=David-Elijah|title=Lutherans install trans pastor|url=https://www.ebar.com/news///244273|accessdate=June 12, 2020|newspaper=Bay Area Reporter|date=February 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224201347/https://www.ebar.com/news///244273|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="nbc-17jan2017">{{cite news|last1=Rosato Jr.|first1=Joe|title=San Francisco Police Department Hires Its First-Ever LGBTQ Chaplain|url=http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Hires-First-Ever-LGBTQ-Chaplain-411010555.html|accessdate=June 13, 2017|newspaper=NBC Bay Area|date=January 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211061558/https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Police-Department-Hires-First-Ever-LGBTQ-Chaplain-411010555.html|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Rohrer serves as the co-chair of the San Francisco Local Homelessness Coordinating Board, which is an "advisory body to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), ensuring a unified homelessness strategy within San Francisco," and working to decrease racial bias in shelter and supportive housing. This work helped secure over $50 million in federal funding for homeless individuals and domestic violence survivors. <ref name=":0">GLIDE Foundation (2024, February 21). ''GLIDE Staff Helped to Secure $50M to House the Homeless - GLIDE - San Francisco: serving the people of the Tenderloin and San Francisco since 1963''. GLIDE - San Francisco: Serving the People of the Tenderloin and San Francisco Since 1963. <nowiki>https://www.glide.org/securing-50m-to-house-the-homeless/</nowiki> (Accessed March 13, 2025)</ref> Dr. Rohrer is the Sr. Church Communications Specialist for GLIDE Memorial Church. <ref name=":0" />