by Kittredge Cherry | | Books, March 16-31
New LGBTQ Christian books are being published in 2025, 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...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Featured, March 16-31, Nov 16-30, Saints
Early Christian cross-dressing monks are being reclaimed as possible transgender or LGBTQ saints. More than 20 saints share a similar story: They escaped their lives as women and lived as men, joining monasteries or becoming religious hermits. Often they were...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Aug 15-31, Jan 1-15, March 16-31, Saints
Bayard Rustin was a black gay activist and the genius behind the civil rights movement. He became the chief organizer of the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington where where Martin Luther King gave his historic “I Have a Dream Speech.” A follower of the Quaker faith...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, March 16-31
A prayer by Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry is one of the few religious voices supporting Day (No) of Silence, a global student-led protest of anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment on April 4, 2025. The annual Day of Silence protest was renamed Day of (No) Silence in...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, Featured, March 16-31, Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision, Resources
A gay vision of Christ’s Passion will run during Holy Week here at Q Spirit. Reflections will be shared daily from Palm Sunday through Easter (April 13-20, 2025). All 24 paintings in the original version of Douglas Blanchard’s “The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision”...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Calendar, March 16-31
Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31) is celebrated at Q Spirit with transgender Christian books, art and other resources. They include trans Christ figures in art and books such as “Trans Biblical,” “Transfaith,” “Transforming” and “Transfigured.” International...
by Kittredge Cherry | | March 16-31, Saints
Historical lesbian Anne Lister married Ann Walker on March 30, 1834 at Holy Trinity Church in York, England. It is considered the first recorded lesbian wedding in the history of Britain and perhaps even the world. Her wedding anniversary falls right before the...
by Kittredge Cherry | | March 16-31, Saints
Adrienne Rich was a lesbian feminist with spiritual impulses and one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. She died on March 27, 2012 at age 82. Her writing was a guiding light to me and countless others, both people of faith and secular readers. The...
by Kittredge Cherry | | March 16-31, Saints
Theodore “Ted” Jennings is a Chicago Theological Seminary professor who wrote “The Man Jesus Loved” and other landmark books affirming queer people the Bible. He died on March 25, 2020, at age 77 after suffering a stroke. Theodore Wesley Jennings Jr. was born Oct. 24,...
by Kittredge Cherry | | Artists, March 16-31, Saints
“Prodigal Son and His Husband Receive a Blessing” and “The Prodigal Transgender Daughter” are among new resources that reveal LGBTQ-positive meanings in the well-known Bible story. The parable of the Prodigal child from Luke 15 will be read at many churches worldwide...