Bernard Mayes honored as lifeline to suicide prevention
(video): http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/10790701-bernard-mayes-father-of-suicide-hotline-dies-at-85/
(radio): WTJU soundboard remembrance:
https://soundcloud.com/wtju/remembering-bernard-mayes-with-sandy-snyder
UVA Magazine Memorial, Summer 2015 Issue:
http://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_pioneer
http:httpw.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bernard-Mayes-S-F-founder-of-1st-U-S-suicide-5853746.php
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bernard-mayes-20141030-story.html
Bay Area Reporter (serving the LGBT community) Obituary
http://www.bayareareporter.org/news/article.php?sec=news&article=70133
http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85
Charlottesville Daily Progress Obituary
(written by Bernard’s friend and care giver, Matt Chayt)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/us/bernard-mayes-85-dies-started-first-us-suicide-hotline.html?_r=1 or “permalink”: http://nyti.ms/1vwAzCM
The issues raised by the Soup Manifesto have inspired considerable interest among the general public in many countries. Much criticism of religion such as that offered in the following books has failed to offer a constructive alternative {let alone a working ethic}, something that our Manifesto attempts to correct. -bdm
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ABOUT
BERNARD DUNCAN MAYES
Bernard’s Memoir:
“Escaping God’s Closet; Revelations of a Queer Priest”
Published by the University of Virginia Press, 2001.
http://people.virginia.edu/~bdm3g/
Bernard Mayes Archives from the University of Maryland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Mayes
Soupism summary from the wikipedia page: “According to Mayes, this implies that all things are interdependent and subject to constant, endless change. Mayes's philosophy of "soup" further asserts that that there can be neither a true beginning nor a true end of existence, and that belief in supernatural forces, gods, spirits and the soul is false, being the product of human imagination.
Mayes also argues that the interdependence, interaction and endless exchange within existence necessitate a particular ethic. This ethic is derived from the further belief that love for others, egalitarian government, universal education and respect for the planet and all that live upon it are critical for the continued health, well being and survival of the human species.”
Video of Bernard speaking about his book,
The Revelations of a Queer Priest”:
s Colonnade Club after the publication of his memoirs
slideshow created for receptions held in his memory
Remembering Bernard Mayes:
(Click on the image below)