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Michael Adee, M.Div., Ph.D., Executive Director and Field Organizer

• Email: michael@mlp.org
• Phone: 505-577-0086

Biography

Michael J. Adee, M.Div., Ph.D. serves as the Executive Director & Field Organizer with More Light Presbyterians. Founded in 1974, More Light Presbyterians is a national organization working to achieve spiritual, ordination and marriage equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and their families in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Michael began as a volunteer with More Light Presbyterians in 1991 and has been serving on staff since 1999.
 
Michael has lived in 10 states and Africa. He grew up in Louisiana and earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Michael has been working in the LGBT community and the HIV-AIDS community since 1988. Having served as a college professor in Louisiana, Kentucky and Ohio, he has also been a hospital and hospice chaplain, bereavement counselor, campus minister, diversity consultant, tennis coach and a missionary teacher in Zimbabwe, Africa.

Michael became a human rights activist after being fired from his university teaching position for starting a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) at Northern Kentucky University. During this same time, he was the first openly gay Elder at Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. A judicial charge was brought against the church for his ordination that went to the highest court in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

As an out gay athlete he has competed in tennis in the last four international Gay Games and two World OutGames. He won silver medal in Chicago and a bronze medal in Montreal. Michael recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as a benefit for LGBT equality. Michael lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Michael Adee speaks at the More Light Presbyterians celebration dinner at the 217th General Assembly.

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