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Resources for LGBT Christians
Denominational Organizations
- Baptist: Welcoming & Affirming Baptists
- Catholic: Dignity USA
- Christian Science: Emergence International
- Episcopal: Integrity
- Lutheran: Lutherans Concerned North America
- Methodist: Affirmation
- Presbyterian: Presbyterians for Lesbian & Gay Concerns
Denominations with a special focus on LGBT people
- MCC: Metropolitan Community Churches
- Unity: Unity Fellowship
Other Organizations
- Ex.Ex Gay Honest and accurate information about the "ex-gay" movement.
- Emergence: Resources for Transgender Christians
- Whosoever: an online magazine for GLBT Christians
- Evangelicals Concerned
Books
 Stranger at the Gate, Rev. Mel White
White examines his own life as a devout Christian, husband, father, and preacher, and details the extreme and painful measures he took to deny his natural sexual desires. He provides a shocking firsthand account of the methods and tactics the religious right uses to wage a campaign of fear and hatred against homosexuals.
 Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, John Boswell
An erudite examination of Christian attitudes toward homosexuality, arguing that tolerance changed into intolerance as the Middle Ages progressed. (this is not an easy read)
 Gay Priest: An Inner Journey, Malcom Boyd
Aware that at least thirty percent of the Catholic and Episcopal clergy is gay, Father Boyd issues a challenge to the Christian churches, proclaiming the absolute demands of spiritual honesty and compassion, and revealing the rich insights the gay experience teaches about the God of love.
 Don't Be Afraid Anymore, Rev. Troy Perry
The powerful story of Perry and of the church he founded because he and others were rejected by Christian churches because of their homosexuality. Most interesting, perhaps, is the interactions with the National Council of Churches (NCC) and Perry's beliefs about what the Metropolitan Community Churches did for the NCC as a catalyst for shared Communion and other expressions of mutual Christian recognition among NCC members. There are also many notable events in the history of this 22-year-old denomination and its challenges to Christian ethical understandings.
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