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Whenever I see a queer invalidate another queer's relationship with god, I just get disappointed. "We need more complex queers!" You can't even handle religious queer people.

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shoutout to nonbinary/agender/otherwise gender nonconforming people who choose to wear cultural clothing typically associated with a certain gender!

jews who wear kippot, muslims who wear hijabs and burqas and niqābs and jilbābs and kimars, sihks who wear turbans, just to name a few!

whether you're wearing these because you have a connection to the gender associated with the article of clothing, or if you wear them because you want to challenge gender roles, or if youre just used to wearing them and don't think your gender should stop you from continuing, or any other reason, i think you all rule!!! im actually a nonbinary jew who wears kippot :] rock on!

and to those who are forced to wear these things, i hope one day you all are in a place where you can have the freedom of choice

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pride 2019 25/30 | queer muslim pride

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happy pride month to religious queer people, who feel like they’re contradictions, or told that they’re contradictions, but stay true to these important parts of themselves anyway. happy pride to the queer religious people who have to explain their identities, and who have to defend their faith or their queerness in either circle.

i love you, i am one of you, thank you for being in this community with me.

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religious queers are so hot and so cool. we shouldn’t have to downplay our faith, our religious values, or our connection to religious communities in order to belong in queer spaces. being religious and being queer are not mutually exclusive, and we deserve to feel a sense of belonging in queer communities as much as non-religious queers do

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at my camp, we have this thing called rikud

we all get dressed up in our craziest clothes and after havdalah (ritual for the end of shabbat, this is a Jewish camp) we have a dance party

in my last year of camp, me and some of my friends were in our baby gay era and were so loud about it

we wore all the rainbow every rikud. my friend had a trans flag bandana and I had a rainbow one. I also attempted to do bi flags on my cheeks but it didn't really work.

I got my outfit together more by the end of camp. it included knee high rainbow socks and elbow-length fingerless rainbow gloves, a rainbow tutu, and either a rainbow bandana or unicorn headband.

I have photos from it too

We also had one rikud a different year where we did sorority and fraternity but gender-swapped, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't look forward to that one for the gender fuckery. I had an I love New York shirt that I had cut the sleeves off for a different gender swap rikud and I had tie dyed it that year so it was perfect. I also put my hair up under a hat and I looked pretty masculine.

awesome!

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If you can accept a Christian being homophobic but you can't accept a Christian being queer, then you are not an ally to the LGBT community.

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I just wanted to say that finding your blog means a lot to me. I’ve been struggling with my identity as a queer religious person and your blog celebrating queer religious people is so awesome. Thank you so much!

Hello! I'm really, really sorry for not responding to this earlier. I was having a lot of conflicting thoughts and struggles regarding my identity and religion, so I started to neglect this blog for a while. I know it seems strange. But I'm getting better, I just wanted to explain why I didn't use this blog for some time.

Im really happy more queer religious folks feel accepted and celebrated here. Truthfully it's what this blog is all about. I made it right after i broke out of a really bad place. I really wanted and needed to spread some positivity for queer religious people, since all the time it seems like people form both our religion and the queer community doesn't think we belong with them. But that's not true.

You're not a contradiction. You don't have to choose sides. You don't have to live a life of self hatred and resentment. You're wonderful and strong and deserve kindness like everyone else. You are not a sin, and neither are you a perpetuator of discrimination. You are you. Deserving of love !!!

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I NEED TO MAKE AT LEAST 500 DOLLARS IN 2 MONTHS OR I DONT KNOW HOW ILL SURVIVE MOVING OUT.

im delilah and im an openly queer plural tgirl living in a shitty homophobic place in texas, and im going to be kicked out on june 1, 2024.

that means if you see this post before june 1, 2024, there is still time to help me. please.

hey yall. this is probably gonna be one of the last posts about this, since im running out of time. because of @punkitt-is-here's super awesome kind reblog, i managed to make about 500 dollars, bringing me up to 1500, but after that things have slowed down to nearly nothing again. thank you to everyone that has donated, i appreciate it more than you could know, and thank you to the handful of famous people who reblogged and gave me a shitload of exposure.

im not sure if making 500 dollars in the next 2 months is going to be like.. possible. and after all the research ive been doing, im honestly not completely confident that 2000 dollars is going to be enough. im hoping that ill be able to pay for a few months of rent at once, so that im more likely to be able to get a place without already having a job in abq. so right now, my goal is basically "crowdfund as much as i possibly can so i dont have to live on the streets"

im hoping for a miracle right now. maybe, under the right circumstances, that could be you. maybe you just got paid and you dont have anything to use the paycheck on, maybe you have a bunch of savings that you could spare a portion of, i dont know, but god, i could really use as much kindness as i can find right now.

thank you to all the people who have helped already, i appreciate it more than you could know, and im hoping it helps me survive.

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there's always a lot of talk about how being gay or trans is a "sin." and a lot of people have reclaimed this, have joked about their "sin," have held it up yourself so it can't be held against you.

but to all of the religious queers, the ones trying to find or create a home in themselves where their identity and their religion don't contradict... i see you. i've been you, i am you, i love you.

your orientation is not a sin.

your gender is not a sin.

you are not sinful or wrong or bad just for being who you are.

your identity does not contradict your religion.

you are beautifully and wonderfully made, just as you are.

you are loved by your creator, just as you are.

nobody can take any of that away from you.

[ please do not tag or censor my use of the word queer. do not derail this post by talking about how much religion sucks. ]

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I am sorry for the sudden silence. I just have been going through rough things that are damaging my faith and are traumatizing me. I don't know what to believe in. And I feel as if I cannot be myself and religious at once. There's nothing good to Garner out of this post, I just thought it'd be fair to let everyone know why I may not frequently update this blog.

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A high-quality edit of Keshet's Jewish Progress Pride Flag

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I'm going to keep being SO JEWISH, and SO QUEER, and SO SO KIND and I'm going to do that /loudly/ for the rest of my life.

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Psa for all the new people coming in. I'm sooo queer. My pronouns? Any. My gender? Transed. Yes I'm christian. Yes I have read the bible. Does that give you the right to go to my blog and be homophobic or any kind of bigoted? Absolutely not! If the idea of homosexuality is so weird to you you might not want to be here. I can get freakier

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Happy pride :)

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You should never have to choose between your faith and who you are