What it means for LGBTQ+ Americans to leave — or choose — Christianity
Almost two-thirds of LGBTQ+ people who were raised Christian have left, new data finds. But queer Black Americans have more to leave behind.
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
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Black LGBT Faith Leaders on Why Black Lives Matter
Many black LGBT church members joined in Black Lives Matter Sunday actions to show that 'Black LGBT bodies must matter too!'
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Op-ed: Charleston Calls Us to Love Bravely
Ensuring the safety of people of color -- be they young black men, transgender women, or church families -- requires all of us to act, says this out minister.
JUNE 24, 2015
Q&A: Tommie Watkins
The Reverend Tommie Watkins knows discrimination. After the aspiring pilot was pressured to quit the U.S. Naval Academy in 1997 for being gay, he was refused ordination as a deacon by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2000. Now at age 31 the Miami Beach, Fla., resident heads the Watkins Group LLC, which helps faith- and community-based organizations reach out to men of color. And he has published Living Out Loud, a book about overcoming homophobia in and out of the black community.
APRIL 24, 2006
Historically Black Colleges Need to Help LGBT Students
Resources for LGBT students are severely lacking at historically black colleges and universities. Finally, something is being done about it.
MAY 24, 2016
Sharpton urges black churches not to be swayed by antigay religious right
Prominent black civil rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton on Tuesday criticized the Christian right for focusing too much political discussion on abortion and same-sex marriage.
NOVEMBER 1, 2006
Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death After Telling Jurors, 'I Had to Do It'
The unrepentant white supremacist, who fatally shot nine black church members during a Bible study session, is the first person ordered to be executed for a federal hate crime.
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Big Gay Follwing: Tori Spelling
Tori Spelling's had quite a morning. Before chatting with us about her VH1 series, so noTORIous, based on her real life, the former 90210-er shot a scene opposite Charo. "We got her to play the guitar and go 'Coochie-coochie-coo,' " boasts the eternally game actress. Sounds like our kind of show. "Just wait," Spelling promises. "There's also a scene of me at an all-black church singing with the choir." Tori Hallelujah!
MARCH 27, 2006
The High Cost of the Black Church's Homophobia
An out pastor says 'praying the gay away' is inviting a devil of an HIV epidemic into the black community.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Al Sharpton, the Black Church, and gays
A host of religious leaders at an Atlanta conference denounced the Republican Party for targeting GLBT Americans and ignoring the real issues
JANUARY 27, 2006
Donald Trump to Black Church: 'We Are In This All Together'
The Republican presidential candidate was met with protests as he visited a black church for the first time.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Black Preacher Denounces Antigay Church Leaders
Pastor E. Dewey Smith says homophobic leaders are doing to LGBT people 'what the slave master did to us.'
JULY 25, 2015
The Black Church's Habit of Using, Abusing Gay Christians
As much as homophobic denominations like Burrell's Church of God in Christ don't want to admit it, righteous gay and bi men are part of their congregations.
JANUARY 6, 2017
LGBT Groups React to Charleston Tragedy
Three of the most powerful LGBT organizations in the nation condemned the murder of nine people at a historically black church in South Carolina.
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