Sylvia Rhue is a writer, activist, filmmaker and producer. She is working on a one-woman comedy show called “CAKE: You Ain’t Gettin' None,” which will be filmed and performed in Santa Monica. 

She is the former Director of Research and Academic Initiatives
and former Director of Religious Affairs with the National Black Justice Coalition located in Washington, D.C.

Previously, she was employed as the California Freedom to Marry Coalition Manager and the Director of Equal Partners in Faith, and she worked with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights. She also worked at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center as the Assistant Director of Counseling, and then as the Policy and Public Affairs Advocate.  A native Californian, she graduated from UCLA with a Masters Degree in Social Work and received a Doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. She is the first African American to receive this degree. Dr. Rhue is the co-producer of the award-winning film All God's Children, and she is an expert on the "ex-gay" movement, which she calls “the cult of the annihilation of the authentic self.” Dr. Rhue is a noted public speaker, a documentarian, a religious scholar and a writer.

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