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I’m the type of person where I like to see news for my own eyes.I packed up my stuff and went directly over to where the church was and to see the sign for my own eyes.

Harlem is a homo free zone.

Jesus would stone homes.

The sign made me feel disgusted.

That’s when I walked up to the door and I rang the door bell.

Hey there how is it going.

I saw your sign and I’m here for my stoning.

I’m a lesbian. Are you guys going to stone me.

What does the sign say?

Read the sign.

I did.

Do you understand what it’s saying

Yeah I’m here for my stoning.

Is it you that’s going to stone me. .

No I don’t have any stones.

He didn’t have any stones to stone me with.

I thought it would be silly. Nobody would be interested in seeing this.

I showed a couple of friends the video the next day and they said no that’s funny people. So that’s when I uploaded it to Facebook.

I’ve always wanted to live in New York City. I was living in West Haven Connecticut and ended up losing just about everything. My company I had. My family stopped talking to me and what not and depression sank in and I ended up losing where I lived.

Nobody was willing to take me in as a person transitioning from a male to a female.

When I was finally able to come and be like I want to start a life here in NYC, it was nervous and exciting at the same time.

I finally was able to have one of my biggest dreams come true but unfortunately that dream was coming true at one of the worst times of my life.

I was street homeless for a full 365 days.

I come here because it’s a safe place to me to come and do some work rather being at other places where people may find that I’m transgender or part of the LGBT community and decide to harass me.

Hi Brittany this is Jennifer Lopez with Everything Gender NYC and also writing for the transadvocate.com.

How are you doing?

So I have heard we have a transgender person in Oklahoma City that’s running for house.

I want to learn a little more about his run.

I’m sorry is it a female or a male.

Great. Can you tell me more about Paula’s run and the reason why she is running?

Do they view Paula as a transgender or or do they view Paula as just an ordinary woman who is just that’s out there making a change for the community?

Jennifer is an amazing activist. She is a hardcore activist who will do what she believes when she believes it at that moment.

We are for our stoning (Chanting.)

We are here for our stoning x 10

We must stand united against the spreading of hateful messages to other countries by these churches

We are here we’re queer, were’ fabulous don’t fuck with us.

Well Jennifer Louis Lopez was offended and she’s a lesbian.

Nah hold it.

Jennifer Louise Lopez was born in the Bronx NY as Ralph Johnson male.

Went to school as a male. Went to the boy’s bathroom all throughout high school.

HI my name is Jennifer Lopez. You may know me as the stoning lady. Earlier this year I went up to the

I decided to go up to the church with my video camera as ask for my stoning. As a result of asking for my stoning. I had worldwide coverage to the youtube video that I made and David Manning the pastor decided to say some negative things about me that were homophobic and transphobic.

My name is not Ralph. And my name was never Ralph and stop your hating. It’s 2014 and it’s time for you to grow up and realize that we live in a society right now where the truth is acceptable. And the truth is that people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender have rights in this community and in this world and the truth is you are breaching those rights by your hateful messages.

more info:Before settling into an efficiency apartment last spring in Harlem, Jennifer Louise Lopez was street homeless in New York city for 365 days. Atlah Church, on the other hand, has long been a major part of the Harlem social fabric. The church is well-known for its hateful church signs—it’s often referred to as the Church that doesn’t like President Barack Obama. In recent months, the church started to post variations of homophobic sayings that has caught the attention of the media.

“Obama has released the homo demon on the land. Lookout black woman a white homo may take your man.”

“Harlem is a sodomite free zone. Stop sodomizing our children in schools across America.”

“Jesus would stone homes. Harlem is a homo-free zone.”

The last sign disturbed Jennifer so much that she decided to go to the church and ask for her stoning. She posted the video of that act and the video went viral, garnering more than 200,000 views on Facebook and Youtube.

Since that brazen act, she has initiated a protest against the church, done dozens of media interviews and is now known as the “Stoning Lady.”

She’s come a long way from being street homeless just one year ago.