Resources

** Feel free to suggest additions to these lists! **

Local LGBT-friendly religious groups 

1st Congregational United Church of Christ 
1031 S. Euclid Ave. Sarasota, FL 34237 
(941) 953-7044 or (941) 365-4463
E-mail: uccsarasota@aol.com

Center for Positive Living
Sarasota, Florida
(941) 907-2824 

Church of the Trinity (MCC)
7225 N. Lockwood Ridge Rd. Sarasota, Florida
(941) 355-0847

Dignity of Sarasota 
6905 Country Lake Cir. Sarasota, Florida
(941) 359-9504 

Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Bradenton, Florida
(941) 746-0067 

St. Boniface Episcopal Church
5615 Midnight Pass Rd. Siesta Key, Florida
(941) 349-5616 

Suncoast Cathedral MCC
3276 E Venice Ave, Venice FL 34276
(941) 484-7068
sccmcc@comcast.net

Temple Sinai
1802 Kenilworth St. Sarasota, Florida
(941) 924-1802 

Unitarian Universalist Church
3975 Fruitville Rd. Sarasota, Florida
(941) 371-4974  

Web Projects 

Vanguard Project-- Oral History and Online Archive Project

Out History-- And online archive wiki about LGBT History

LGBT Religious Archive Network -- website with online exhibits and biographies of influential queer people of faith

Days Without Sunshine-- Stonewall Library and Archive online exhibit about Anita Bryant and the Save Our Children campaign

Polk Street Project -- online project of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco

Films 

E Minha Cara/ That's my Face -- gay African American filmmaker's search for spiritual identity in his African roots

Jihad for Love-- documentary about gay Muslims

Trembling Before G-d-- documentary about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews

Treyf-- documentary about lesbian Orthodox Jews

A Touch of Pink-- fictional film about a Pakistani gay man and his Muslim family 

The Mormon Proposition-- documentary about Mormon influence in California Prop 8

One Nation Under God-- 1993 documentary about ex-gay Christians

Save Me-- fictional film about Christian ex-gay ministries

Call Me Troy-- documentary about the history of the MCC

For the Bible Tells Me So-- documentary about Christian debates

Call Me Malcolm-- documentary about a transman's ordination in the United Church of Christ denomination

Rock Haven-- fictional film about the coming out of a young gay Christian

Circumstance-- not available yet; film about lesbians in Iran

La Mission-- movie about a gay man and his Catholic father

Priest-- movie about a Catholic priest and his male lover

Additional Bibliography

Adam, Bary D. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement. Boston: Twayne, 1987.

Allitt, Patrick. Religion in America Since 1945: A History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Allyn, David. Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution; An Unfettered History. New York: Little & Brown, 2000.

Anderson, James. “The Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 1974-1994.” Journal of Homosexuality 34:2 (1997): 37-65.

Arzen, Tanya. Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006.

Balka, Christie and Andy Rose, eds. Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

Balmer, Randall and Lauren Winner. “Protestants and Homosexuality.” In Protestants in America, 147-78. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Black, Allida M., ed. Modern American Queer History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

Bouldrey, Brian. Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995.

Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Bullough, Vern L., ed. Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context. New York: Harrington Park, 2002.

Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s, 2004.

Chauncey, George. Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate Over Gay Equality. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Comstock, Gary David. Unrepentent, Self-Affirming, Practicing: Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay People within Organized Religion. New York: Continuum, 1996.

D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, 2d. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

________., and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Penguin, 1991.

________. To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America—A History. Boston and New York: Houston Mifflin, 1999.

Fetner, Tina. How the Religious Right Changed Lesbian and Gay Activism. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Gallo, Marcia. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

Greenberg, Steven. Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Hasbury, Richard, ed. Homosexuality and Religion. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1989.

Hill, Harvey, and Jennifer Watson. “In Christ There Is No Gay Or Straight? Homosexuality and the Episcopal Church.” In Anglican and Episcopal History 75:1 (March 2006), 37-68.

Jordan, Mark D. The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Marcus, Eric. Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Marler, Regina, ed. Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex. San Francisco: Cleis, 2004.

Meeker, Martin. Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Minton, Henry. Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Nugent, Robert and Jeannine Grammick. “Homosexuality: Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Issues: A Fishbone Tale.” Journal of Homosexuality 18:3/4 (1989/90): 7-46.

Oppenheimer, Mark. “‘Inherent Worth and Dignity’: Gay Unitarians and the Birth of Sexual Tolerance in Liberal Religion.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:1 (1996): 73-101.

Peiss, Kathy and Christiana Simmons, eds. Passion and Power: Sexuality in History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Philips, Kim M. and Barry Reay, eds. Sexualities in History: A Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.

Richards, David A. J. Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, and Religion as Analogies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Sears, James. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation. Binghamton, NY: Haworth, 2006.

Seidman, Naomi. Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Shneer, David and Caryn Aviv, eds. Queer Jews. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Stryker, Susan. Transgender History. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008.

________., and Jim Van Buskirk. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996.

Thompson, Mark, ed. Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994.

­­Wuthnow, Robert, and John E. Evans. The Quiet Hand of God: Faith Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Yarnold, Barbara, ed. The Role of Religious Organizations in Social Movements. New York: Praeger Press, 1991.