![]() The AIDS crisis and the narrator’s own personal crisis meet head-on. ![]() Do add your own – either for individual books or authors, or for rec sites or round-ups – in comments! There’s also the reliqueer tag on LGBTQ Reads. While not all of these end with hugs and puppies, they do start from, or at least eventually arrive at, the assumption that being Christian and being LGBTQ are not incompatible states, and call, in one way or another, for affirmation.Īs for things I haven’t read (yet)… I’ve found Jesus in Love to be a very interesting source of recommendations. I’m adding warnings, but there’s always a possibility that I’ll not have remembered something horrible. In this post, I’m only listing books I’ve actually read, but in some cases it was a while ago. However, I’ve found a few over the years, and it only seems fair to share the intel. Now, at least part of the reason I wrote one ( now two) of my own was that I was frustrated with the lack of representation. I got chatting on Twitter with the user of the Diverse Church account about books with LGBTQ Christian characters, and how few of these there actually are. ![]() The fact that a book appears on this list doesn’t necessarily imply that I thought that it was particularly good, just that it matches the criteria in the third paragraph below. I add relevant books to it as I read them, and am always on the lookout for more. Note: this began as a spontaneous blog post in 2016 and has metamorphosed into an ongoing rec list over the years. ![]()
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