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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Boston Church Wants to Be a Home for LGBTQ+ Folks During the Holidays
Arlington Street Church's leadership said they want to provide a welcoming place for queer people.Â
December 20, 2022
New Jersey Church, Homes Tagged With Swastika, Antigay Graffiti
Trenton police are searching for those who tagged buildings with hate language and symbols.
October 15, 2019
Indiana Church Is Evicted After Posting Hateful Anti-LGBT Sign
A church in Mike Pence's home state is nowhere to be found after it posted an anti-LGBT sign that residents protested.Â
July 8, 2018
Equality House Gets Makeover for Transgender Day of Remembrance
The home, located across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church, has adopted the colors of the transgender flag in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 20, 2013
Ky. Court Asked To Cut Public Funding From Anti-Gay Religious Group
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed an appeal Thursday to strip federal funding from Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, a public child care institution that allegedly religiously indoctrinates children and discriminates against LGBT people in their hiring practices. "We strongly believe that any group taking public funds should not discriminate in hiring or proselytize," said Joe Conn, press contact for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. "Kentucky Baptist Homes takes buckets of public funds, yet they still try to indoctrinate the children in their care."
July 18, 2008
Mormon Church Makes First Donation to LGBT Group
Its financial contribution to a Salt Lake City program for homeless LGBT youth is believed to be its first ever to an LGBT organization.
July 3, 2015
PHOTO: Antigay Harlem Church Curses All LGBT Supporters
Any church or church member who supports LGBT people should be cursed with 'cancer, HIV, syphilis, stroke, madness, itch, then hell," according to the ATLAH World Missionary Church in Harlem.
August 2, 2014
The Difference Between a Welcoming Church and an Affirming One
A survivor of "conversion therapy" tries to find a church that doesn't just tolerate, but embraces.
April 3, 2018
Are LGBT Churches Headed for the Great Beyond?
A Texas congregation of the 49-year-old Metropolitan Community Church shutters, while the denomination ponders its future.
August 24, 2017
Texas Residents Protest Church That Calls for Executing LGBTQ+ People
The church has been in the news after advocating the death penalty for LGBTQ+ folks practicing the "sodomite deception."
August 15, 2022
What’s a Non-United Methodist LGBTQ Person to Do?
After the denomination's leadership embraced bigotry, LGBTQ Methodists find themselves at a crossroads.
March 6, 2019
Mormons on a mission
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most powerful forces working to defeat gay equality. And openly gay and lesbian Mormons are the most powerful force working to change their church
March 22, 2005
Dear Pope Francis, We Need to Have a Talk
Author and furniture magnate Mitchell Gold has a message, delivered via open letter, for the beleaguered pontiff.
August 29, 2018
An Alternative Way to Be Catholic - and LGBT
Churches in the Old Catholic and Independent Catholic traditions offer services that will be familiar to Roman Catholics, along with unqualified affirmation of LGBT people.
October 3, 2013
Methodist Leadership Doesn't Comprehend Gay People Can Be Spiritual
Andrew Ponder, active in the church since he was 14, on how the Methodist rejection of LGBTQ people stung him.
March 9, 2019
Ky. Baptist Church to Perform First Same-Sex Wedding
The church is in the more liberal range of Baptist beliefs, but there has still been some tension surrounding the move.
July 3, 2014
Arkansas Church Gets Threat for Marriage Equality Support
After a Unitarian Universalist minister wrote a pro-LGBT letter to the editor of an area newspaper, her church got an anonymous homophobic note.
November 13, 2014