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Lent and Ramadan: A Shared Journey for Queer People of Faith

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For queer Catholics and queer Muslims this year's convergence of Lent and Ramadan offers an opportunity to reflect on the differences and commonalities between not just their faiths, but their experiences as LGBTQ+ people in religions that are not universally welcoming to them.  Read More

Ban on Gender-Affirming Care Compromises U.S. Bishops’ Authority

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The bishops' argument reduces a person’s health and flourishing to physiological function, ignoring the deep connections between mental, physical, and spiritual well-being, Read More

German Catholic Groups Protest Award to U.S. Bishop With Anti-LGBTQ+ Record

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"Confession of this God obliges us to an interpretation of the world and an ethos that respects the dignity of every human being as a creature of God—regardless of origin, gender, and social status…" Read More

Catholic Imagination Must Be Queered with Curiosity, Argues Writer

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An author who writes science fiction/fantasy stories has said that the Vatican’s two most recent declarations on LGBTQ+ issues has called for a queering of the Catholic imaginary through curiosity and self-discovery. Read More

Why A Cure Isn’t All I Desire

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As a queer Catholic who also lives with chronic illness, I’m pretty familiar with both the pursuit of healing and the pursuit of a cure. Read More

New Essay Highlights Voices of Queer Catholic Women Celebrating Pride

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LGBTQ+ Catholics are “the church’s future saints,” says Angela, a woman interviewed in a National Catholic Reporter article that featured the voices of queer Catholic women. Angela says of the LGBTQ+ faithful, “Every voice around them in the church and outside of the church tells them that they don't really belong ….[T]o be able to ignore that and stay focused on Christ is saintly, I think." Read More

Being Surprised Out of Our Fears

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Here is another lesson from queer and trans people of faith, who remain faithful and hopeful despite disappointments, hurt, and rejection: we know that our God is not asleep, that our God is not indifferent to our suffering and our fear. Read More

New Book Examines the Sacramental Nature of Same-Sex Marriage

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"The Sacrament of Same-Sex Marriage" gives much-needed crucial attention to the loving grace many queer couples already experience, as well as to the hope that this grace will  be affirmed. Read More

In This Is Love: Dispatches from a Popular University for Gaza

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For one, the fight for queer liberation is fundamentally intertwined with the struggle for a free Palestine. Read More

Palm Sunday: The Day I Came Out as Queer

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I am not so sure anymore whether the image of an incarnate God-the-Son who died on the cross can continue to give me and other queer people hope and comfort in a violent, anti-queer church and world. Read More