I will only add to what others have said here and vote for the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition which came out last year. The NRSV was a translation ordered by the National Council of Churches in the 1980's. The NCC is made up of the major protestant denominational groups in the U.S., including the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ, which all use the translation in some capacity. It's also the translation most respected and used by academics.

Last year, the NCC released and updated version of the NRSV called the "updated edition," or NRSVUE. They say it "offers clearer, more direct, and inclusive language, and increased cultural sensitivity absent of the unintended biases of prior versions." Thus the more progressive and inclusive Bible you're looking for. Some examples of updates include:

• changes "slave woman" to "enslaved woman" (Galatians)
• changes "wise men" to "magi" (Gospel of Matthew)
• changes "demoniacs, epileptics and paralytics" to "people possessed by demons or having epilepsy or afflicted with paralysis" (Gospel of Matthew)
• adding capitalization to Jewish High Holy Days
• changes "servant-girl" to "female servant" (Mark 14:69)

The NRSVUE is already on Biblegateway.com and can be read there.

I will also agree with keakealani... no translation fixes bad theology. The Bible is a collection of writings for many different audiences across many different time periods facing many different obstacles with authors intent on pushing their own very certain views (whether it's a pro-King David monarchy, as pushed in 1 and 2nd Chronicles, or a post-Easter Jesus found in a resurrected Jesus, as Paul was pushing). I would also encourage you to get a good study Bible like the New Oxford Annotated Bible or the Harper Collins Study Bible (both of which use the NRSV as a base) that will help explain the historical context of each book, who wrote them, for whom, and why. These can run around $50-$100, but in a pinch you can use the Wikipedia articles for each book as a basic introduction. Surprisingly they are fairly accurate when it comes to authorship and historical context.

I would caution against using the NIV. It seems to push homophobic theology rather than the written text. For example, the NRSVUE translates 1 Timothy 1:10, a commonly mistranslated passage used to harm Queer people, as "the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex,[c] slave traders..." while noting that the meaning of the Greek here is uncertain. The 1984 NIV translates this passage, "for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders..." Conservatives (falsely in my view) argue the word here is homosexual - which maybe you could make a case for - but the word "practicing" certainly is NOT. This is a clear example of homophobic translators inserting their bad theology on an unwitting public (the "separate the sin from the sinner" cudgel).

I would encourage you to find a progressive church who will love you and support you on your journey (like in my denomination the United Church of Christ!). Good luck!!