Matt Comer is the editor of Q-Notes, an online watchdog magazine for the LGBT community in the Carolinas. His coming-out story is featured in Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America (2008). There is a video of his testimony about being young, gay and […]

Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church is located in Old Town Manassas, Va. They have hosted an annual gay prom since 2009.

See an April 16, 2010, article on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s site about some Christians’ concerns that efforts to highlight harassment of LGBT students, such as the “Day of Silence” observed at some schools, are essentially attempts to promote gay rights.

Read an Aug. 29, 2010, Denver Post article about Focus on the Family’s objection to anti-bullying programs that it says promote homosexuality and portray conservative Christians as bigoted.

The Queer Christian Fellowship is part of the The Christian Association at the University of Pennsylvania.

John L. Selders Jr. is an ordained minister and bishop in the United Church of Christ and is the organizing pastor of Amistad United Church of Christ in Hartford, Conn.

Read a Sept. 29, 2010, column at Religion Dispatches by Candace Chellew-Hodge, founder and editor of Whosoever: An Online Magazine for GLBT Christians. Chellew-Hodge criticizes a campaign by Focus on the Family against anti-bullying legislation.

Read an Oct. 1, 2010, entry on the Reconciling Ministries Network blog suggesting that an anti-gay climate in society creates bullies and is fueled by church policies that call homosexuality incompatible with Christian values. It’s written by the Rev. Troy Plummer, executive director of the network, which mobilizes United Methodists to transform their church and the world […]

Read an Oct. 4, 2010 column by the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, R. Albert Mohler in which Mohler reiterates support for the Christian position against gay rights but strongly questions the harsh approach of many Christians to gay people.