Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele have succeeded in doing something rare: they made queer theory understandable and practical for non-academics…
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Rev. Emmy Kegler’s book One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins is a meditation on an LGBT pastor’s relationship with Scripture. The book’s central idea can be summarized in the opening line of the final chapter: “I have come to love the stories of Scripture because I was found by love first.”
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In regard to Scripture, progressive revelation means that there are two movements happening in the Bible: first, a movement toward lived experience becoming a valid reason to change one’s mind about old truths; and second, a movement toward the full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. Robertson relies especially on the first movement to say that the “witness” of LGBTQ+ Christians—their experiences of faithful living—demonstrates that the Spirit of God has moved toward inclusion.
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In Changing Our Mind, Gushee shocked the evangelical world by proclaiming that he not only no longer believes this but also that he now desires the fellowship of the "bullied" (LGBT people) more than that of the "bullies.”
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Lee, a former evangelical Christian herself, weaves together the personal accounts of four young, progressive, self-proclaimed evangelical reformers with an expansive body of research on church trends, politics, and sociology as well as her own personal experience with evangelicalism in her youth.
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Unfair: Christians and the LGBTQ Question, is a timely book of voices from the LGBTQ+ community that brings the often forgotten human experience of queer-identifying people into the current debates of inclusion and affirmation of queer sexualities that are occurring within many Christian churches today.
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Unnatural: Spirituality in Queer Christian Women by Rachel Murr seeks to create a stronger community of Queer people who hold a religious faith through the breaking of silence.
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Miguel A. De La Torre… states, “any struggle for liberation must truly begin with a discussion on sex.”
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Hartke brings different trans-affirming theologies together to provide a resource for transgender people and Christian communities.
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For Chu, Jesus’ love is sure, yet it cannot be kept secret—it must be shared in a way that invites communion among believers.
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Galvanized by the lack of discussion, the crisis of HIV/AIDS, and a personal connection to the field, [Douglas] brings a womanist perspective to begin the conversation of sexuality in the Black community.
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Cantorna speaks to LGBTQ Christians who have experienced great loss, sorrow, and shame. For that audience, this book uplifts and empowers.
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Mark Achtemeier walks through his journey from conservative church activist to advocate for same-sex marriage and ordination in his book The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage.
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In her book, Excluded, Julia Serano makes the argument that feminist and queer communities are often more exclusive than inclusive and that the solution to this problem is to take a holistic approach to advocacy work.
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Drew Harper illustrates the many ways in which he had to assume the role of parent to his own father… Still, this book provides a hopeful alternative to the all-too-common narrative of familial disintegration resulting from conservative parents’ refusal to see their gay child’s identity as valid, beloved, and God-given.
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Bloom, a young adult romance comic, follows the lives of two young boys, Ari and Hector, who somehow found their lives intertwined for a summer and find themselves falling hard for the other.
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In his book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships, Matthew Vines makes a case in support of same-sex relationships by detailing his parents’ journey to an affirming position with the aid of scholarly works from a biblical perspective.
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The Bible and the Transgender Experience by minister and ally Linda Tatro Herzer is an attempt to illustrate biblical support for “gender variance.”
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