Table of Contents  

Foreword  
William McKinney (Pacific School of Religion) and Mary A. Tolbert (GTU)

Introduction  
Scott Thumma and Edward Gray

Part I: Denominational Heritage Expressions

• Part I Introduction

• Gay Gods of the City: The Emergence of the Gay and Lesbian Ethnic Parish
  Leonard Norman Primiano

• Reconciling Congregations Bridging Gay and Straight Communities
  Wendy Cadge

• No Longer an Oxymoron: Integrating Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventist Identities
  René Drumm

• Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical
  Scott Thumma  View a version of this article online

• Why Join A Gay Synagogue?
  Moshe Shokeid

• Latter-Day Saint Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Spirituality
  Richley Crapo

• Sexuality and Gender in Santería: LGBT Identities at the Crossroads of Santería Religious Practices and Beliefs 
  Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

• Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Buddhist Practitioners
  Wendy Cadge

• Shades of Grey or Back to Nature? The Enduring Qualities of Ex-Gay Ministries
  Christy Ponticelli

• Part II Introduction

• Pluralism and Diversity: Music as Discourse and Information in a Gay and Lesbian Congregation
  Bernard Lukenbill

• "St Gerard Teaches Him That Love Cancels That Out" Devotion to St. Gerard Maiella Among Italian American Catholic Gay Men in Newark, New Jersey
  Peter Savastano

• A Religion of One's Own: Gender and LGBT Religiosities
  Melissa Wilcox

• Liberation in Truth: African American Lesbians Reflect on Religion, Spirituality, and Their Church
  Aryana Bates

• Utopian Imaginaries and Faerie Practice: Mapping Routes of Relational Agency
  Jay Hasbrouck

• Queering the Dragonfest: Changing Sexualities in a Post- Patriarchal Religion
  Mary Jo Neitz

• Part III Introduction

• The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, & Religion in a Gay Bar
  Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma

• Intermediaries: Spirit and Transcendence in a Sample of "Third Gendered" North Americans
  Ingrid Sell

• Rite to Party: Circuit Parties and Religious Experience
  Paul Gorrell

• The Harvey Milk Show: Violence, Desire, and Gay Popular Culture
  Edward R. Gray

• Gay Men's Spiritual Experience in the Leather Community
  Thomas Peterson

• The Spirit Within: Gay Male Culture as a Spiritual Venue
  Donald Boisvert

• Conclusion: Gay Religion as a Cultural Production
  R. Marie Griffith

Index