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Louie Crew Clay: LGBTQ church activist, founder of Integrity, Rutgers professor

by Kittredge Cherry | | Nov 16-30, Saints

Louie Crew Clay was a longtime LGBTQ church activist who founded of the Episcopal LGBTQ group Integrity in 1974. He died on Nov. 27, 2019 at age 82, peacefully at a hospital in Newark, New Jersey, with his husband by his side, a few days after suffering a stroke. As...

Richard Sibbes: Queer Puritan theologian for the LGBTQ community?

by Kittredge Cherry | | Nov 16-30, Saints

Richard Sibbes was a 17th-century English Puritan who never married, nurtured close male friendships, wore extravagantly lacy clothing and preached a rather queer theology. Puritans have a (somewhat undeserved) reputation for being distinctly puritanical, but Sibbes...

Walatta Petros: African nun and saint with a female partner in 17th-century

by Kittredge Cherry | | Nov 16-30, Saints

Walatta Petros is a 17th-century Ethiopian nun and saint who had an intense lifelong friendship with another nun and led a successful movement to drive out foreign missionaries. Her feast day is Nov. 23. Her biography, written by her disciples just 30 years after her...

Remembering Sally Gross, incandescent intersex trailblazer: “You certainly could not ignore her”

by Kittredge Cherry | | Saints

Vivid personal memories of intersex priest Sally Gross are shared by a queer clergy colleague who recalls her as “incandescent” and “a legend.” Gross was defrocked as a Catholic priest in the 1990s when she revealed that she identified as female. Here she is...

New illustrated book “Heavenly Homos, Etc” shows queer icons from LGBTQ religion and history

by Kittredge Cherry | | Saints

Saints and heroes of the LGBTQ community come alive through bold artwork in “Heavenly Homos, Etc” by Jan Haen, a Dutch artist and Roman Catholic priest in the Redemptorist order. The new graphic book launches today. It was published in June 2022 for LGBTQ Pride Month...

Transgender women asylum seekers: Detention led to death for Roxsana Hernandez and Johana Medina

by Kittredge Cherry | | Saints

Transgender women asylum seekers from Central America show the injustice faced by LGBTQ people trying to immigrate. LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers from Ukraine and other parts of the world face hardships too. On the anniversaries of their deaths, transgender women...

Chriton Atuhwera / Trinidad Jerry: LGBTQ Ugandan activist killed by homophobic attack

by Kittredge Cherry | | Saints

LGBTQ activist and Ugandan refugee Chriton Atuhwera, known online as “Trinidad Jerry,” died on April 12 from burn wounds sustained in a homophobic firebomb attack in a Kenyan refugee camp. He was 22. The attack occurred on Block 13, where approximately 300 LGBTQ...

“A Prayer to the Sainted Aunts” honors LGBTQ elders and mentors

by Kittredge Cherry | | Artists, Saints

LGBTQ elders and mentors are honored in a new prayer to “sainted aunts” by Singaporean writer and artist Anna Onni. It appears in “The Book of Sainted Aunts: The Illustrated Portraits of Mildly Martyred Sinners-Turned-Saints Since Queerdom Come.” Onni wrote and...

Gay marriage of liberators Lincoln and Jesus imagined by artist

by Kittredge Cherry | | Artists, Saints

Research suggests that liberators Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ were both queer, so an artist created an image of their same-sex marriage. “Abraham Lincoln Jesus Christ Gay Marriage” by Mark Allyn is posted here in honor of Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12. Allyn is a...

Calendar of LGBTQ Saints launched with 300 traditional and alternative figures

by Kittredge Cherry | | Saints

Q Spirit launches its new online calendar of LGBTQ saints today. It features more than 300 traditional and alternative saints, milestones in LGBTQ history, Christian liturgical seasons and other items of special interest to LGBTQ people and allies. The calendar can be...