Q Spirit Newsletter
LGBTQ spirituality and the arts
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From Kittredge Cherry / Jesus in Love
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Polish LGBTQ activist arrested
for rainbow Virgin Mary posters
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A Polish LGBTQ activist was arrested for “offending religious sentiments” with posters showing the Virgin Mary and Christ child with a rainbow halos. “This arrest offends MY religious sentiments as a queer Christian minister!” said Q Spirit founder Kittredge Cherry in a protest letter to the Polish government. Amnesty International organized a
campaign to stop government harassment of Polish activist Elżbieta Podleśna.
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Jesus returns to God with homoerotic hug
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Christ receives a homoerotic embrace in the controversial Ascension Day painting from Doug Blanchard's gay Passion of Christ series. Churches emphasize that Jesus ascended to heaven bodily -- in the flesh -- so it's appropriate for the painting to have a physical, erotic component.
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Joan of Arc: Crossdressing
warrior-saint and LGBTQ hero
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Joan of Arc was a cross-dressing teenage warrior who led the medieval French army to victory. This queer icon and girl-power hero was killed for wearing men's clothing by the church that later made her a saint. Joan's belief that God was the source of her gender-bending queerness makes her an inspiring role model for LGBTQ people of faith.
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New in June: LGBTQ Christian books
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Three new books are added this month to Q Spirit's
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Bobbi and Soul,” romance novel about a lesbian priest, by J.B. Marsden.
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Uganda Martyrs raise queer questions
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Tough questions about religion and LGBTQ rights are raised by the Uganda Martyrs. Forty-five Ugandan male pages refused to have sex with their king after they converted to Christianity in 1886 -- so he executed them. They were canonized, leaving some truths hidden by their halos.
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Cartoon: God and Gay Pride
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Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit join the joyous crowd marching for LGBTQ Pride in “God and Gay Pride” by David Hayward, also known as nakedpastor. The cartoon shows the Holy Trinity celebrating the full spectrum of human sexuality and gender identity.
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Rainbow Christ Prayer:
LGBTQ flag reveals the queer Christ
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Colors of the LGBTQ rainbow flag reveal the many faces of the queer Christ in the Rainbow Christ Prayer. It begins, "Rainbow Christ, you embody all the colors of the world." Kittredge Cherry and Patrick Cheng wrote the prayer based on his book "From Sin to Amazing Grace."
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Gloria Anzaldúa: Queer feminist Chicana scholar of spiritual activism
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Gloria Anzaldúa was an influential queer Latina feminist scholar. 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. She challenges binary thinking by writing about the marginal, mixed cultures that develop along borders -- and with her devotion to folk Catholic female icons.
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Harvey Milk Day celebrates equality
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Equality for all is celebrated May 22 on Harvey Milk Day, the birthday of the LGBTQ rights pioneer. Born May 22, 1930, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and assassinated on Nov. 27, 1978. Milk was the first openly gay elected official in California. He has been called a martyr for LGBTQ rights -- and all human rights. One of his most famous quotes is, “Hope will never be silent.”
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Rosa Bonheur: Crossdressing painter honored "androgyne Christ"
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Rosa Bonheur, the most famous 19th-century female artist, was a cross-dresser who had a “divine marriage” with a woman and honored the “androgyne Christ.” She died on May 25, 1899. She rewrote the “Hail Mary” prayer to say: “Hail, O earth full of grace, the living God is with you. Blessed are you among all the planets.... Holy earth, mother of love, pour out your grace on those who suffer, now and in our divine transformation.”
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Dear
Friend
Celebrate LGBTQ Pride this month -- while remembering history and facing current challenges such as the
Rainbow Mary arrest in Poland. May the queer saints and the Rainbow Christ be with you!
Blessings,
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Kittredge Cherry
Founder, publisher and editor
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In
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Steve Harper shows that what the Bible teaches about sexuality is more complex than often portrayed. Through a fresh, rigorous theological examination of the Bible’s teachings, Harper helps readers make the constructive case that biblical, Christian teaching is compatible with love and intimacy amidst all sexual orientations.
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Gender-fluid and gender-nonconforming characters act on their passions in this Bible-based novel, narrated from the point of view of Tamar from the Scriptures. The story is lifesaving for the LGBTQ community and liberating to others. Adelaide Books (New York/Lisbon).
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CAN GAYS AND LESBIANS BE TRUE CHRISTIANS? See the "
Gay and Christian" website! It shows that a person can be both a Christian and a loving, sexually-active gay man or lesbian.
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“Prodigal Son and His Husband Receive a Blessing”
by J.R. Leveroni
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Toby Johnson’s sweet, funny, endearing sci-fi romance about aliens with a wonderful trait. Who’d have thought the Visitors would look like that…?
Plus a punch line that reimagines what might really have happened in the Garden of Eden with that contentious fruit.
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