by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, June 1-15
Available in 29 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, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Dholuo, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew,...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, Featured, June 1-15, Resources
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...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Aug 15-31, July 1-15, June 1-15, Saints
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 lifelong Christian, she was nicknamed “the Saint of Christopher Street” during...
by Kittredge Cherry | | June 1-15, Saints
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, he was ordained as a Pentecostal minister when he was 18 and...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, June 1-15, Saints
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...
by Kittredge Cherry | | June 1-15, Saints
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 driven to suicide by court-ordered “chemical castration”...
by Kittredge Cherry | | June 1-15, Saints
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...
by Kittredge Cherry | | June 1-15, Saints
Tough questions about homosexuality, religion and LGBTQ rights are raised by the 45 Uganda Martyrs whose feast day is June 3. In 2024 their feast day falls two months after Uganda’s Constitutional Court upheld one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ laws, including the...