Rainbow Theology. Patrick S. Cheng

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       Study Questions

      1. Which events from the history of queer African Americans surprised you the most? Troubled you the most? What would like to learn more about in terms of queer Black history?

      2. What are some key writings by queer Black theologians about the exclusion of LGBTIQ African Americans from the Black Church?

      3. What are some key writings by queer Black theologians about reclaiming the voices of Black lesbians and bisexual women in womanist theologies?

      4. What are some key writings by queer Black theologians that challenge the traditional liberation theology paradigm?

      5. How might you use nontraditional theological sources such as literature, online personal ads, or interfaith writings to enrich your own theological reflection and work?

       For Further Study

       Queer Black Experience

      • Anderson, “Desiring to Be Together”

      • Anderson, “Deadly Silence”

      • Boykin, For Colored Boys

      • Boykin, One More River to Cross

      • Constantine-Simms, The Greatest Taboo

       Black Church Exclusion

      • Anderson, “African American Church Traditions”

      • Comstock, A Whosoever Church

      • Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom

      • Crawley, “Circum-Religious Performance”

      • Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church

      • Farajaje-Jones, “Breaking Silence”

      • Griffin, Their Own Receive Them Not

      • James and Moore, Spirited

      • Monroe, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”

      • Stringfellow, “Soul Work”

       Reclaiming Black Lesbian Voices

      • Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way, 147–67

      • Coleman, “Must I Be Womanist?”

      • Hill, “Who Are We for Each Other?”

      • Lightsey, “The Eddie Long Scandal”

      • Lightsey, “Methodist Clergy Pledge to Defy Church”

      • Martin, “What I Don’t Know About Britney Griner”

      • Martin, “Yes, There Is a God!”

      • Monroe, “Must I Be Womanist?”

      • Townes, “The Dancing Mind”

      • Townes, “Marcella Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology”

      • Townes, “Same-Sex Marriage”

      • Townes, “Washed in the Grace of God”

      • West, Disruptive Christian Ethics, 141–79

      • West, “Must I Be Womanist?”

      • Young, “De-centering Religion as Queer Pedagogical Practice”

      • Young, “Queering ‘The Human Situation’”

      • Young, “‘Uses of the Erotic’ for Teaching Queer Studies”

       Challenging Black Liberation Theologies

      • Anderson, “The Black Church and the Curious Body of the Black Homosexual”

      • Coleman, “Must I Be Womanist?”

      • Garner, “A Sample Service of Holy Union”

      • Griffin, “Toward a True Black Liberation Theology”

      • Hill, “Disrupted/Disruptive Movements”

      • Johnson, “Feeling the Spirit in the Dark”

      • Jojo, “Searching for Gender-Variant East African Spiritual Leaders”

      • Monroe, “When and Where I Enter”

      • Sneed, “Dark Matter”

      • Sneed, “Like Fire Shut Up in Our Bones”

      • Sneed, Representations of Homosexuality

      • Strongman, “Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities”

       Other Resources

      • Baldwin, “To Crush a Serpent”

      • Beckford, “Does Jesus Have a Penis?”

      • farajajé-jones, “Holy Fuck”

      • Hamilton, “‘The Flames of Namugongo’”

      • Kornegay, “Queering Black Homophobia”

      • Moore, “Theorizing the ‘Black Body’ as a Site of Trauma”

      • Schexnayder, Setting the Table, 37-38.

      • West, Defending Same-Sex Marriage