St Venantius Fortunatus, Italian Bishop and Homoerotic Poet Like Paulinus of Nola, St Veantius’s poetry includes some decidedly secular verse of the romantic sort. That this celebrates male love is clear from its inclusion in the Penguin Book o Homosexual Verse. (Read more) St…
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“ANY DAY NOW” – movie trailer
Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, ANY DAY NOW is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by…
The Queer Pewroots?
Writing at Patheos, blogger Slacktivist has published a list of LGBT Christian bloggers. Here’s his list: Anarchist Reverend Are Women Human? The Bible in Drag Bilgrimage The Body Is Many Brian Gerald Canyonwalker Connections Clattering Bones Crumbs From the Communion…
Booklist: Love, Marriage and Family
As part of the restructuring of my book pages, I have now added a list specific to the topic of “Love, Marriage and Family”. This will be permanently located in the resource back pages, where it will be directly accessible…
LGBT Christians, Gay Marriage: The Real Threat to Family
One of the core arguments raised by the Christian right against marriage equality is that it is said to be a threat to traditional families. The claim is bizarre: even within the European/ Western tradition, there is not such thing…
Marriage and Procreation: A Reality Check
Now that Barack Obama has ensured gay marriage is back in the news cycle around the world, I am once again hearing from the religious right the repeated insistence that we must continue to resist marriage equality, because every child…
Kathy Baldock:”Trans-mockery in the House of God?”
When I wrote earlier this month that I see clear signs of a shift towards more sensitive pastoral responses to lesbians and gay men in the Catholic Church, I noted that I do not yet see any sign of corresponding…
Same – sex Marriage, For the Sake of the Children? “Yes, Yes, Yes”.
It’s always good to see comments in response to a post, but some give me greater joy than others. This one, replying to my claim on radio and here, yesterday, that we need gay marriage for the sake of the…
“The Problem With Marriage”: Gay Minister, Marvin Ellison.
In the global struggles and movement towards marriage equality, we have gone well beyond the simplistic assumption that this is a contest between conservatives fighting for religious belief and family values on the one hand, and liberal struggles for civil…
Introducing a “Devil’s Advocate” to Gay Catholic Discussion
When I set up “Queering the Church” three years ago, I stated explicitly my hope that the site would develop into more than a personal soapbox. I wanted something more, a place where the queer Catholic community (and other Christians)…
