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The need to chronicle and preserve queer Catholic history

Views Emma Cieslik / Bernard Schlager / December 9, 2022

The project interviews people who were raised in Catholic communities “or [who] come from families where Catholicism has a dominant and discernable presence in their lives.”

Purity culture and sex-based shame warped my faith. I am still trying to heal.

Views Emma Cieslik / August 22, 2022

Years of silence about queerness and homophobia, both blatant and implied, instilled in me a fear that my family would reject me and that religion would be more important than this part of myself. I feared would have to give up faith if I wanted to be queer.