What the Gay Hymns Tell Us | Gene Veh

Contents:

• WHAT THE GAY HYMNS TELL US
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER JTICE
• WATCH: GAY-INCLIVE CHURCH CHOIR SGS HYMNS BEFORE MEMORI PIZZA

WHAT THE GAY HYMNS TELL US

Amerin Christiany is far om homogeno s acceptance of homosexualy.

About 54% of practicg Christians said homosexualy should be accepted, acrdg to a recent Pew Rearch Center study.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER JTICE

Songs for the Holy Other aims to provi ngregatns workg to dismantle the walls wh a toolbox of hymns by and for those who intify as members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgenr, nonbary, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual, aromantic, two-spir, and other sexual/genr mory (LGBTQIA2S+) muny and their alli. A ftival of sacred mic and texts by gays and lbians held 2010 for LGBT Pri Month spired me to make a list of my own favor the genre of queer hymns:. The full text appears my book “Equal R: Lbian and Gay Worship, Ceremoni and Celebratns.

Unlike most of the songs I’ve listed, this hymn actually dar to e the words “gay and lbian. A gay and lbian people,.

A gay and lbian people. “A Heart to Praise Our God, ” a ftival of sacred mic and texts by gays and lbians, was held June 13, 2010 Berkeley, California.

WATCH: GAY-INCLIVE CHURCH CHOIR SGS HYMNS BEFORE MEMORI PIZZA

It was sponsored by the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign, Epworth Uned Methodist Church, New Spir Communy Church, and the Hymn Society the Uned Stat and Canada. Reflectg male liberal Prottantism’s embrace of the homosexual revolutn, the society has e out wh a downloadable llectn of hymns lled Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirmg The LGBTQIA2S+ our society and our church, we ntue to build walls markg “out” and “”. The msage to gays and transexuals is that there is nothg wrong wh them or what they do or what they sire, that they are already clean.

” Y, rpectable folks have often through history nsired gays to be “other. He–not gays, or not any human begs–is the “Holy Other.