2026 brings new LGBTQ Christian books
New LGBTQ Christian books are being published in 2026, including theology, Bible, history, memoir, church life and spirituality by diverse authors. Q Spirit presents summaries of LGBTQ Christian books released this year, plus lists of titles that are coming soon or...
Rainbow Christ Prayer in 30 languages: LGBTQ flag reveals the queer Christ in translated prayers
Available in 30 languages, the Rainbow Christ Prayer matches the colors of the LGBTQ Pride flag with the many faces of the queer Christ. Here the prayer is presented in the original English, plus Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Dholuo, Estonian, French, German,...
Rainbow Christ Prayer: LGBTQ flag reveals the queer Christ
Colors of the LGBTQ rainbow flag reveal the many faces of the queer Christ in the following Rainbow Christ Prayer by lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry and gay theologian Patrick S. Cheng. The Rainbow Christ Prayer honors the spiritual values of the LGBTQ...
Marsha P. Johnson: African American transgender woman at Stonewall Uprising
Marsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender woman activist and one of those credited with starting the Stonewall Rebellion that launched the modern LGBTQ liberation movement. A bold black trans street activist and lifelong Christian, she was nicknamed “the...
James Tinney: Black gay professor who founded LGBTQ church in 1982
James S. Tinney was a black gay professor who founded an African American LGBTQ church in Washington DC in 1982. He died at age 46 on June 12, 1988, from complications due to AIDS. Born in Kansas City on May 12, 1942, he was ordained as a Pentecostal minister when he...
Orlando martyrs: Pulse gay nightclub massacre recalled in art and prayer
LGBTQ people and allies use art and prayer to remember the 49 martyrs killed in the massacre at the Pulse gay bar on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. A mass shooter killed 49 people and left 53 wounded at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The hate crime...
Codebreaker Alan Turing honored in queer spiritual art
Alan Turing is a gay icon, pioneering computer scientist and British codebreaker. He is sometimes called a gay saint because his wartime codebreaking saved millions of lives, and a gay martyr because he was probably driven to suicide by court-ordered “chemical...
Homosexuality of Jesus explored by 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham
Biblical arguments for LGBTQ rights and a queer Jesus may seem like new ideas, but they were pioneered about 200 years ago by an influential British philosopher -- in writings that were never published until the 21st century. Philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)...
LGBTQ Christian cartoons reveal God’s love for all
God’s love for LGBTQ people is revealed at Q Spirit in an ongoing series of cartoons by David Hayward, known as nakedpastor. Prints and other items are available at Nakedpastor.com. [Update: “The Rainbow Sheep” (children’s picture book) by David Hayward was released...
Uganda Martyrs raise questions on religion and LGBTQ rights
Tough questions about homosexuality, religion and LGBTQ rights are raised by the 45 Uganda Martyrs whose feast day is June 3. In 2024 Uganda’s Constitutional Court upheld one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the death penalty for “aggravated...
Trinity Sunday: Holy Spirit blesses same-sex couple as Gay Passion of Christ series ends
Celebrate Trinity Sunday with visionary LGBTQ resources, including the last image from the gay Passion of Christ series, an icon of a Trinity with rainbow halos, the “Sparkle Creed” and “Rainbow Trinity Prayer.” The Holy Spirit blesses God and Christ as a same-sex...
Saint Francis rejoiced when all-female Trinity called him “Lady Poverty”
Francis of Assisi, one of the world’s best loved saints, rejoiced when an all-female Trinity greeted him as “Lady Poverty” in a queer experience that has been buried. The subversive vision has been ignored, sanitized and perhaps suppressed for centuries, even though...
Joan of Arc: Cross-dressing warrior-saint and LGBTQ role model
Joan of Arc was a tough cross-dressing teenage peasant who led the medieval French army to victory at age 17. Joan is a queer icon, girl-power hero and patron saint of France. Her belief that God was the source of her -- or their or his -- gender-bending queerness...
Pentecost: Holy Spirit brings LGBTQ visions
Pentecost celebrates the Holy Spirit, an important aspect of God for LGBTQ people and our allies. The Spirit brings flaming gender fluidity and inspires change in the church. On Pentecost the church remembers the descent of the Holy Spirit onto the apostles in tongues...
Rosa Bonheur: Cross-dressing painter honored “androgyne Christ”
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 long-term relationships with women. Her 200th birthday is March 16, 2022. She died on May 25, 1899....
The Two Rebeccas: Queer black pair founded Shaker religious community in 1800s
Preacher Rebecca Cox Jackson and her longtime companion Rebecca Perot were queer African American women who founded a Shaker religious community in Philadelphia in the 1800s. Known as “the two Rebeccas,” they lived together as ministry partners for more than 30 years...
Stormé DeLarverie: Butch lesbian at Stonewall Uprising
Stormé DeLarverie was a biracial butch lesbian “drag king” entertainer and one of those credited with starting the Stonewall Rebellion that launched the modern LGBTQ liberation movement. She died on May 24, 2014 at age 93. The LGBTQ people who resisted police at the...
Harvey Milk: LGBTQ rights pioneer stood for equality
Pioneering LGBTQ rights activist Harvey Milk is the first and most famous openly gay male elected official in California. His birthday (May 22) is a state holiday. He has been called a martyr for LGBTQ rights -- and for all human rights. “If a bullet should enter my...
Alcuin: Medieval scholar and abbot who wrote homoerotic texts
Alcuin of York was an 8th-century English scholar and abbot who served as advisor to Emperor Charlemagne and wrote homoerotic poetry and letters. His feast day is May 20 in Episcopal and other Anglican churches. Called “the most learned man anywhere to be found,”...
Prayer for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Q Spirit presents a prayer for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on May 17. The prayer was written by Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry. Founded in 2004, IDAHOBIT celebrates sexual and gender diversities and raises awareness of LGBTQ...
Celebrate 39th anniversary of “beautiful couple” Kittredge and Audrey’s same-sex wedding
Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry and her spouse Audrey Lockwood are celebrating 39 years since their same-sex church wedding in 1987. They invite you to view pictures from throughout their decades together, listen to the song about them as a “Beautiful Couple,” and...
Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis: Medieval mystic and the woman she loved
Hildegard of Bingen was a medieval German mystic, poet, artist, composer, healer and scientist -- and likely lesbian. She loved another nun named Richardis and wrote with ecstasy about the Virgin Mary. She celebrated God’s green web of life as “viriditas.” Her feast...
Mychal Judge, gay saint of 9/11 and chaplain to New York firefighters
Mychal Judge, chaplain to New York firefighters and unofficial “gay saint,” died helping others in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. He was the first recorded victim of 9/11. A popular Franciscan priest during his lifetime, he rose to...
Ascension Day: Jesus Returns to God (Gay Passion of Christ series)
Celebrate Ascension Day with a painting of Christ embraced by a winged man in “Jesus Returns to God,” the most controversial image in Doug Blanchard’s gay Passion of Christ series. This year Ascension Day is May 14, 2026. Christian tradition emphasizes that the...
Gloria Anzaldúa: Queer feminist Chicana scholar of spiritual activism
Gloria Anzaldúa is an influential queer Latina feminist scholar whose spirituality often gets overlooked. She died on May 15, 2004 at age 61. One of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, she grew up in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border. In school she was punished...
Saints Basil and Gregory Nazianzus: “Two bodies with a single spirit”
Influential fourth-century saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus were so close that Gregory said they were like “two bodies with a single spirit.” Their example of love between men can be an inspiration for LGBTQ people and allies today. The pair is...
Julian of Norwich: Celebrating Mother Jesus
Julian of Norwich is a medieval English mystic who celebrated “Mother Jesus” and had important relationships with women. Her feast day, May 8, always falls near Mother’s Day in the United States. She wrote some queer ideas about God, had a long-time female...
Madre Juana de la Cruz: Queer saint of 16th-century Spain
Madre Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez was an abbess in 16th-century Spain who insisted that God changed her gender in the womb, transforming her from male to female. She dressed as a man to escape her family and join a community of religious women. Her feast day...
Medieval holy men Vivaldo and Bartolo: Love stronger than death for AIDS patrons
A pair of medieval holy men faced disease together with a love that speaks across the centuries to the LGBTQ community and all people in the age of COVID-19, AIDS and Ebola. Thirteenth-century Franciscans Blessed Bartolo and Blessed Vivaldo ministered in an Italian...
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Top 22 LGBTQ Christian books of 2025 named
Check out the top 22 LGBTQ Christian books of 2025 — including theology, Bible, memoir, church life and history by diverse authors. The list was announced today by lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry, founder of Qspirit.net. “Creativity was this year’s hottest...
Trans Saints? Early cross-dressing monks and martyrs share similar lives
Early Christian cross-dressing monks are being reclaimed as possible transgender or LGBTQ saints. At least 30 saints share a similar story: They escaped their lives as women and lived as men, joining monasteries or becoming religious hermits. Often they were desperate...
Litany of Queer Saints
LGBTQ saints and martyrs are remembered in the Litany of Queer Saints from Q Spirit. The prayer was created by Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry. She also wrote a major essay on why we need LGBTQ saints. Both traditional and alternative saints are featured. It is a...
Why we need LGBTQ saints: A queer theology of sainthood
It’s time to welcome the queer saints. Many believe that saints and other souls will visit for Halloween, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). The LGBTQ saints are important because people are searching for alternative ways to lead...
Kittredge Cherry: Christianity inspired me to come out as a lesbian
I am celebrating my birthday on Oct. 21 by re-posting this reflection on my coming-out story and life journey as a lesbian Christian. During my birthday month, I try to appreciate my own accomplishments and reflect on my dreams for the future. My 2025 birthday wish:...
Rainbow Christ Prayer: LGBTQ flag reveals the queer Christ
Colors of the LGBTQ rainbow flag reveal the many faces of the queer Christ in the following Rainbow Christ Prayer by lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry and gay theologian Patrick S. Cheng. The Rainbow Christ Prayer honors the spiritual values of the LGBTQ...
Gay Passion of Christ blog series starts Palm Sunday at Q Spirit
A gay vision of Christ’s Passion will run during Holy Week here at Q Spirit. Reflections and art will be shared online daily from Palm Sunday through Easter (March 29 - April 5, 2026). All 24 paintings in the original version of Douglas Blanchard’s “The Passion of...
Black Jesus, Latinx Jesus, Asian Jesus, female Christ and other liberating visions join the gay Passion of Christ
Liberating visions of Jesus as Black, Latinx, Native American or female join with the gay Passion of Christ series to help people experience God more fully. “All people are made in God’s image, so it is important to envision Jesus as queer, Black, brown, female and...
Queer Nativity scenes show love makes a family
I create my own queer Nativity scenes for the Christmas season. One has two Marys at the manger with the baby Jesus, and the other features two Josephs with the Christ child. I put Mary with Mary and Joseph with Joseph—just like putting two brides or two grooms on top...
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