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    | picture=HonorThemWithAction San Francisco 20170612-6035.jpg
    | name = Megan Rohrer
    | 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.
    | picture = HonorThemWithAction San Francisco 20170612-6035.jpg
    | date_birth=April 3, 1980
    | 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.
    | 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>
    | date_birth = April 3, 1980
    | nationality=American
    | 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>
    | pronouns=[[they/them]]
    | nationality = American
    | 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>
    | pronouns = [[he/Dr]]
    | occupation=pastor and activist
    | 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>
    | known_for=
    | occupation = homelessness & LGBTQ activist, historian and writer
    | known_for = Seen on Queer Eye
    | honorific_prefix = Rev. Dr.
    }}
    }}
    '''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>
    '''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" />  


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    Rev. Dr.Megan Rohrer
    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 of birth April 3, 1980
    Place of birth Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA[1]
    Nationality American
    Pronouns he/Dr
    Gender identity transgender/genderqueer[2]
    Occupation homelessness & LGBTQ activist, historian and writer
    Known for Seen on Queer Eye

    Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer is an American pastor and activist.[1] Rohrer is the first openly transgender minister to be ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.[2][3][4][5] 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. [6] Dr. Rohrer is the Sr. Church Communications Specialist for GLIDE Memorial Church. [6]

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    1. 1.0 1.1 "Rev. Megan Rohrer". The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2017. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
    2. 2.0 2.1 Chien, Jen (10 May 2016). "A shepherd finds the perfect flock". KALW. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
    3. "The Rev. Megan Rohrer". Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2017. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
    4. Nahmod, David-Elijah (February 27, 2014). "Lutherans install trans pastor". Bay Area Reporter. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2020. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
    5. Rosato Jr., Joe (January 17, 2017). "San Francisco Police Department Hires Its First-Ever LGBTQ Chaplain". NBC Bay Area. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2017. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
    6. 6.0 6.1 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. https://www.glide.org/securing-50m-to-house-the-homeless/ (Accessed March 13, 2025)
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