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What is Queer Faith?

Queer Faith is a live storytelling event bringing queerness and faith together, bridging gaps between tradition and change, and celebrating faith found, lost, re-claimed, re-made in all kinds of creative ways and spaces.

“Queer”  — different, outside-center, both/and instead of either/or, quirky, extra-ordinary 
“Faith”    — center, root, what we trust in, how we orient ourselves

In a Queer Faith storytelling event, you will hear stories from people who connect to traditional religions and religious language, who carry pieces of traditional language but have significantly re-shaped the way they speak of the faith that grounds them, and you will hear stories from people who do not resonate with the traditional religious frames at all.

“Queer”  — different, outside-center, both/and instead of either/or, quirky, extra-ordinary 
“Faith”    — center, root, what we trust in, how we orient ourselves

There are a lot of self-identified queers in the Queer Faith audience and among the storytellers, but you don’t have to be queer to attend or tell a story. “Queer” here is used broadly, as in out-of-the-box, as in coming from a place somewhere outside of ‘normal’. Lots of straight people claim room in that space, especially when it comes to faith.