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- Kittredge, Cherry, and Zalmon Sherwood, eds. Equal Rites: Lesbian and Gay Worship, Ceremonies, and Celebrations. Louisville: Westminster, 1995.
- Stuart, Elizabeth, ed. Daring to Speak Love’s Name: A Gay and Lesbian Prayer Book. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992.
- Balka, Christie, and Andy Rose, eds. Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish. Boston: Beacon, 1989.
- Coakley, Sarah, ed. Religion and the Body. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Downing, Christine. Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love. New York: Continuum, 1991.
- Jung, Patricia Beattie, et al. eds. Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
- Swidler, Arlene, ed. Homosexuality and World Religions. Valley Forge, P.A.: Trinity Press International, 1993.
- Brooten, Bernadette J. Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. London: Farber & Faber, 1989.
- Countryman, L. William. Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and their Implications for Today. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.
- Goss, Robert E. and Mona West, eds. Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2000.
- Martin, Dale B. The Corinthian Body. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
- Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
- Brown Douglas, Kelly. Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999.
- Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, vol. 1. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
- Gudorf, Christine E. Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1994.
- Isherwood, Lisa, and Elizabeth Stuart. Introducing Body Theology. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
- Jordan, Mark D. The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Lebacqz, Karen, and R. Barton. Sex in the Parish. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1991.
- Nelson, James B. Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1979.
- Spong, John Shelby. Living in Sin? A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality: A Study Guide for Individuals and Small Groups. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.
- Boykin, Keith. One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.
- Chan, Connie S. “Issues of Sexual Identity in an Ethnic Minority: The Case of Chinese American Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexual People,” in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives, ed. Anthony R. D’Augelli and Charlotte J. Patterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 87-101.
- Chou, Wah-san. Tongzhi: Politics of Same-Sex Eroticism in Chinese Societies. New York: Haworth Press, 2000.
- Eng, David L. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001.
- Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. Trans. Catherine Porter. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.
- Leong, Russell, ed. Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of Gay and Lesbian Experience. New York: Routledge, 1996.
- Murray, Stephen O., and Will Roscoe, eds. Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
- Murray, Stephen O., Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
- Murray, Stephen O., et al. Latin American Male Homosexualities. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
- Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon, 1986.
- Clark, J. Michael. A Place to Start: Toward and Unapologetic Gay Liberation Theology. Dallas: Monument Press, 1989.
- Clark, J. Michael. Defying the Darkness: Gay Theology in the Shadows. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1997.
- Cleaver, Richard. Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995.
- Comstock, Gary David. Gay Theology without Apology. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1993.
- Comstock, Gary David, and Susan E. Henking, eds. Que(e)ring Religion: A Critical Anthology. New York: Continuum, 1997.
- Goss, Robert. Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.
- Goss, Robert. Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 2002
- Althaus-Reid, Marcella María. Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics. London: Routledge, 2000.
- Daly, Mary. Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy. Boston: Beacon, 1984.
- Gilson, Anne Bathurst. Eros Breaking Free: Interpreting Sexual Theo-Ethics. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1995.
- Heyward, Carter. Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.
- Heyward, Carter. Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice. New York: Pilgrim, 1989.
- Hunt, Mary E. Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship. New York: Crossroad, 1991.
- Mollenkott, Virginia Ramsey. Sensuous Spirituality: Out from Fundamentalism. New York: Crossroad, 1992.
- Raymond, Janice G. A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection. Boston: Beacon, 1986.
- Stuart, Elizabeth. Just Good Friends: Towards a Lesbian and Gay Theology of Relationships. New York: Mowbray, 1995.
- Stuart, Elizabeth, et al. Religion is a Queer Thing: A Guide to Christian Faith for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People. London: Cassell, 1997.
- Tessier, L. J. Dancing after the Whirlwind: Feminist Reflections on Sex, Denial, and Spiritual Transformation. Boston: Beacon, 1997.
- Gayle S. Rubin. “Thinking Sex: Note for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In Henry Abelove et al., eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1993, 3-44.
- John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity.” In Abelove et al., eds. 467-476.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. “Epistemology of the Closet.” In Abelove et al., eds. 45-6l.
- Judith Butler. “Imitation and Gender Subordination.” In Abelove et al., eds. 307-320.
- Bernadette J. Brooten. Selections from Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.29-71.
- Walter Wink. “Homosexuality and the Bible.” In Walter Wink, ed. Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999, 33-49.
- Dale B. Martin. “Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1: 18-32.” Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches. 3: 3 (October 1995): 332-355.
- Dale B. Martin. “Arsenokoites and Malakos: Meanings and Consequences.” In Robert L. Brawley, ed. Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Louiseville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. 117-136. — Read this article now – published here on the CLGS website.
- Sarah J. Melcher. “The Holiness Code and Human Sexuality.” In Brawley, ed. 87-102.
- James M. Gustafson. “Ways of Using Scripture.” In Wayne G. Boulton et al., eds. From Christ to the World: Introductory Readings in Christian Ethics. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B Eerdmans Publishing, 21-26.
- Bruce C. Birch and Larry L. Rasmussen. “The Nature and Role of Biblical Authority.” In Birch, Rasmussen, eds. Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life, revised and expanded. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1989. 141-158.
- Carson Hollis, “Yes, Baptist polity makes room for queer Christians.” In Baptist News Global. June, 2025
- Adam, A. K. M., ed. 2000. Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
- Annamarie Jagose. Queer Theory: An Introduction. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1996.
- Borg, Marcus, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally, Reprint edition, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2002.
- Boswell, John. Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality: gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
- Boswell, John. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe. NY: Villiard,1994.
- Boykin, Keith and Ansa. One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America. Doubleday & Company,1998.
- Brawley, Robert L., editor, Biblical Ethics & Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
- Choon-Leong Seow, ed. Homosexuality and Christian Community. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
- Comstock, Gary D. and Susan E. Henking, eds. Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology. NY: Continuum, 1997.
- Countryman, Louis William. Gifted by Otherness: Gay and Lesbian Christians in the Church. Morehouse Publishing, 2001.
- de la Huerta., Christian and Lam Kam Chuen. Coming out Spiritually: The Next Step. Putnam Publishing Group,1999.
- Goss, Robert E and Mona West, ed Take Back the Word. Pilgrim Press, 2000
- Goss, Robert E. Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto 1993.
- Goss, Robert E. Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up 2002.
- Griffin, Horace L. Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2006.
- Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. San Francisco: Alamo Square Press, 2000.
- Heyward, Carter. Touching Our Strength: The Erotic As Power and the Love of God. Harper Collins 1989.
- Jeffrey Siker, ed. Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994.
- Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament, Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2003.
- Jordan, Mark The Invention of Sodomy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Kader, Samuel, Openly Gay, Openly Christian: How the Bible Really Is Gay Friendly, San Francisco: Leyland Publications, 1999
- L. R. Holben. What Christians Think About Homosexuality: Six Representative Viewpoints. North Redland Hills, TX: Bibal Press, 1999.
- Mark D. Jordan, Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the
Confusions of Christian Marriage 2005 - Martin Nissinen. Homoeroticism in the Biblical World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998.
- McNeil, John J. Taking a Chance on God: Liberating Theology for Gays, Lesbians, and their Lovers, Families. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
- McNeil, John J. The Church and the Homosexual. Boston: Beacon, 1993.
- Miner, Jeff and John Tyler Connaley. The Children Are Free: Reexamining the Biblical Evidence on Same-Sex Relationships 2002.
- Rogers, Jack, Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, Revised and Expanded edition, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009
- Say, Elizabeth A. and Mark R. Kowalewski. Gays, Lesbians, and Family Values. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1998.
- Scanzoni, Letha, and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? Another Christian View, revised edition, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1994
- Spong, John Shelby, The Sins of Scripture: Uncovering the God of Love Beneath the Bible’s Texts of Terror, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2005
- Stuart, Elizabeth. Religion is a Queer Thing: A Guide to the Christian Faith and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-gendered People. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1997.
- Stuart, Elizabeth. Daring to Speak Love’s Name: A Gay and Lesbian Prayer Book. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992.
- Thomas Laquer. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
- Tolbert, Mary (2002). “Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: Biblical Texts in Historical Contexts.” Paper delivered at Lancaster School of Theology, published on the web at http://www.clgs.org.
- Truluck, Rev. Dr. Rembert S. Steps to Recovery From Bible Abuse
- White, Mel. Stranger at the Gates: To Be Gay and Christian in America. Dutton/Plume, 1995.
- Wilson, Nancy. Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1995.
- Wink, Walter Ph.D. Homosexuality and the Christian Faith
- Zion, Noam. S 2005. Megillat RUTH: Hesed and Hutzpah, A Literary Approach Study Guide, TICHON PROGRAM, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.
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