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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Denominational Heritage Expressions | |
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| The Gay God of the City: The Emergence of the Gay and Lesbian Ethnic Parish | |
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| Reconciling Congregations Bridging Gay and Straight Communities | |
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| No Longer an Oxymoron: Integrating Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventist Identities | |
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| Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical | |
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| Why Join a Gay Synagogue? | |
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| Latter-day Saint Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Spirituality | |
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| Sexuality and Gender in Santeria: LGBT Identities at the Crossroads of Santeria Religious Practices and Beliefs | |
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| Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Buddhist Practitioners | |
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| Shades of Grey or Back to Nature? The Enduring Qualities of Ex-Gay Ministries | |
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| Subaltern/Sectarian Expressions | |
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| Pluralism and Diversity: Music as Discourse and Information in a Gay and Lesbian Congregation | |
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| "St. Gerard Teaches Him That Love Cancels That Out:" Devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic Gay Men in Newark, New Jersey | |
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| A Religion of One's Own: Gender and LGBT Religiosities | |
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| Liberation in Truth: African American Lesbians Reflect on Religion, Spirituality, and Their Church | |
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| Utopian Imaginaries and Faerie Practice: Mapping Routes of Relational Agency | |
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| Queering the Dragonfest: Changing Sexualities in a Post-Patriarchal Religion | |
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| Popular Expressions | |
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| The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Bar | |
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| Intermediaries: Spirit and Transcendence in a Sample of "Third-Gendered" North Americans | |
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| Rite to Party: Circuit Parties and Religious Experience | |
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| The Harvey Milk Show: Violence, Desire, and Gay Popular Culture | |
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| Gay Men's Spiritual Experience in the Leather Community | |
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| The Spirit Within: Gay Male Culture as a Spiritual Venue | |
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| Conclusion: Gay Religion as a Cultural Production | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |