Queer Encounters in the Garden

By Christopher Fite 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

A popular 1912 hymn imagines a close encounter with Christ and reveals the queer possibilities within evangelical Protestant liturgy and devotion.

Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody

By Melissa Wilcox Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are an unaffiliated, non-celibate order of queer, activist nuns.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman African Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society

By Erin Abraham Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society explores early medieval understandings of sin, looking in particular at childhood, sexuality and violence.

The place of religion in LGBTQ lives

By George Severs LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

The Oral History Society LGBTQ special interest group has shown the important role oral history plays in researching LGBTQ lives.

Sex Between the Solitudes: Interracial Sex and Adoption in Montreal’s Postwar Jewish Community

By Andrea Eidinger Canada, Race and Ethnicity, Religion and Sexuality

The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.

The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem

By Gillian Frank Religion and Sexuality

I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God.