Gay Religion

While homosexuals continue gaining acceptance in other arenas of American culture, only a tiny minority of religious groups accept gays and lesbians as full members and potential clergy. Serious conflicts over homosexuality threaten to break apart several

Foreword

WILLIAM McKINNEY AND MARY A. TOLBERT

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Introduction

EDWARD R. GRAY AND SCOTT THUMMA

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Part I: Denominational Heritage Expressions

1

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CHAPTER 1 The Gay God of the City: The Emergence of the Gay and Lesbian Ethnic Parish

LEONARD NORMAN PRIMIANO

7

(24)

CHAPTER 2 Reconciling Congregations Bridging Gay and Straight Communities

WENDY CADGE

31

(16)

CHAPTER 3 No Longer an Oxymoron: Integrating Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventist Identities

RENÉ DRUMM

47

(20)

CHAPTER 4 Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical

SCOTT THUMMA

67

(16)

CHAPTER 5 Why Join a Gay Synagogue?

MOSHE SHOKEID

83

(16)

CHAPTER 6 Latter-day Saint Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Spirituality

RICHLEY H. CRAPO

99

(16)

CHAPTER 7 Sexuality and Gender in Santeria: LGBT Identities at the Crossroads of Santeria Religious Practices and Beliefs

SALVADOR VIDAL-ORTIZ

115

(24)

CHAPTER 8 Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Buddhist Practitioners

WENDY CADGE

139

(14)

CHAPTER 9 Shades of Grey or Back to Nature? The Enduring Qualities of Ex-Gay Ministries

CHRISTY M. PONTICELLI

153

(10)

Part II: Subaltern/Sectarian Expressions

163

(118)

CHAPTER 10 Pluralism and Diversity: Music as Discourse and Information in a Gay and Lesbian Congregation

W. BERNARD LUKENBILL

167

(14)

CHAPTER 11 "St. Gerard Teaches Him That Love Cancels That Out:" Devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic Gay Men in Newark, New Jersey

PETER SAUASTANO

181

(22)

CHAPTER 12 A Religion of One's Own: Gender and LGBT Religiosities

MELISSA M. WILCOX

203

(18)

CHAPTER 13 Liberation in Truth: African American Lesbians Reflect on Religion, Spirituality, and Their Church

ARYANA BATES

221

(18)

CHAPTER 14 Utopian Imaginaries and Faerie Practice: Mapping Routes of Relational Agency

JAY HASBROUCK

239

(20)

CHAPTER 15 Queering the Dragonfest: Changing Sexualities in a Post-Patriarchal Religion

MARY JO NEITZ

259

(22)

Part III: Popular Expressions

281

(86)

CHAPTER 16 The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Bar

EDWARD R. GRAY AND SCOTT THUMMA

285

(18)

CHAPTER 17 Intermediaries: Spirit and Transcendence in a Sample of "Third-Gendered" North Americans

INGRID SELL

303

(10)

CHAPTER 18 Rite to Party: Circuit Parties and Religious Experience

PAUL J. GORRELL

313

(14)

CHAPTER 19 The Harvey Milk Show: Violence, Desire, and Gay Popular Culture

EDWARD R. GRAY

327

(10)

CHAPTER 20 Gay Men's Spiritual Experience in the Leather Community

THOMAS V. PETERSON

337

(14)

CHAPTER 21 The Spirit Within: Gay Male Culture as a Spiritual Venue

DONALD L. BOISVERT

351

Conclusion: Gay Religion as a Cultural Production

R. MARIE GRIFFITH

367

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Appendix

377

(30)

Bibliography

407

(26)

Index

433

(18)

About the Authors

451

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