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Julian of Norwich: Celebrating Mother Jesus
“Julian of Norwich,” a memorial drawing for his cat Betty, by Douglas Blanchard“Julian of Norwich” by Brother Robert Lentz, OFM, TrinityStores.com Julian of Norwich is a medieval English mystic who...
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Resurrection song: “Sometimes religion rubs me wrong”
A queer sensibility shines through revolutionary new lyrics about resurrection in a song performed on Easter at LGBT-affirming Founders Metropolitan Community Church in Los Angeles.Lucia Chappelle,...
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Harvey Milk Day celebrates equality
“Harvey Milk of San Francisco” by Brother Robert Lentz, OFM. (TrinityStores.com) Equality for all is celebrated today (May 22) on Harvey Milk Day, the birthday of LGBT rights pioneer Harvey Milk. As...
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Rosa Bonheur: Cross-dressing painter honored “androgyne Christ”
“Rosa Bonheur” by Ria Brodell Rosa Bonheur, the most famous female painter of the 19th century, was a queer cross-dresser who honored what she called the “androgyne Christ.” She had two consecutive...
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Joan of Arc: Cross-dressing warrior-saint
“Jeanne D'Arc” by Rowan Lewgalon"Saint Joan of Arc" by Brother Robert Lentz, OFM Joan of Arc was a tough cross-dressing teenage warrior who led the medieval French army to victory when she was 17. She...
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New LGBTQ Christian books: June 2015
New LGBTQ Christian books this month include queer theology and the memoir of a gay Anglican priest.Theology“That We Might Become God: The Queerness of Creedal Christianity” by Andy Buechel, with a...
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“Queer Icons” show LGBTQ people of color today in art by Gabriel Garcia Roman
“Julissa” from “Queer Icons” by Gabriel Garcia Roman“Andrew” from “Queer Icons” by Gabriel Garcia Roman“Queer Icons” by Mexican American queer artist Gabriel García Román reveal the holiness of LGBTQ...
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Uganda Martyrs raise questions on homosexuality, religion and LGBT rights
Uganda Martyrs (with Saint Charles Lwanga in the center) by Albert Wider (Wikimedia Commons) Tough questions about homosexuality, religion and LGBT rights are raised by the Uganda Martyrs whose feast...
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New seminary course covers queer Christ in art
“Queering Christ in Image and Text” will be taught this summer at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. It is probably the first time that an entire seminary course has focused on the...
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Motorcycle blessing at 1980s gay leather bar remembered
Jim Mitulski, left, and Kittredge Cherry bless a motorcycle in 1988 (Photo by Mister Marcus) Motorcycle blessings at a gay leather bar in San Francisco brought together spirituality and LGBT culture in...
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Rainbow Christ Prayer: LGBT flag reveals the queer Christ in new short version
“Stained-glass Rainbow Flag with Cross" by Andrew Craig Williams Colors of the rainbow flag reveal the many faces of the queer Christ in the Rainbow Christ Prayer by lesbian author Kittredge Cherry and...
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UpStairs Lounge fire: Deadliest attack on LGBT people killed 32
“See You at the UpStairs Lounge” by Skylar Fein The deadliest attack on LGBT people in U.S. history is being remembered in powerful new ways today on its 42nd anniversary, including two new films. An...
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Poem: "Faggots We May Be"
A new poem weaves together LGBT spiritual themes, making connections between gay men burned to death, global warming and the Rainbow Christ. Georgia poet S. Alan Fann evokes Stonewall-style...
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Saints of Stonewall inspire LGBT justice -- and artists
“It was Beautiful” by Douglas Blanchard shows the Stonewall Rebellion Oil on canvas, 24" x 36," 1999. Queer people fought back against police harassment at New York City’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969,...
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Pauli Murray: Queer saint who stood for racial and gender equality
Pauli Murray by Laurel Green Human rights champion and queer saint Pauli Murray is a renowned civil rights pioneer, feminist, author, lawyer and the first black woman ordained as an Episcopal priest....
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New LGBTQ Christian books: July 2015
Two new books about AIDS and LGBTQ Christianity are announced this month.“Religion, Flesh, and Blood: The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion” by Pamela Leong....
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Gay tours of Vatican art reveal hidden history
Gay history hidden in Vatican religious art can now be seen firsthand through new LGBT-friendly tours never offered before. In a sign of the Vatican’s increasing acceptance of queer people, Italian...
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Jemima Wilkinson: Queer preacher reborn in 1776 as “Publick Universal Friend”
Jemima Wilkinson / Publick Universal Friend (Wikimedia Commons) Jemima Wilkinson (1752-1819) was a queer American preacher who woke from a near-death experience in 1776 believing she was neither male...
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Artemisia Gentileschi paints strong Biblical women
“Judith and Her Maidservant” by Artemisia Gentileschi Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi inspires many with her paintings of strong Biblical women -- created despite the discrimination and sexual...
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Christa art exhibit celebrates female Christ
“Christa” by Angie Devereux Female Christ figures by international artists are on display at the University of Winchester in England through Aug. 9.“Celebrating Female Images of Christ/a” brings...
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