Four friends of JesusInLove.org are featured artists in the "Queer Spirituality & Politics" cover story of this month's Tikkun, a major national magazine.

Robert Lentz, Matthew Wettlaufer, Douglas Blanchard and Paul Richmond have art in the July/August issue of Tikkun, which just hit newsstands. 

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LGBT people fought back against police harassment in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, launching the LGBT liberation movement.

They are honored here as "saints of Stonewall" because they had the courage to battle an unjust system. They did the miracle of turning self-hatred into self esteem. More info

(Credit: "It was Beautiful" by Douglas Blanchard)

Both sacred and profane, "If Jesus Were Gay and Other Poems" by Emanuel Xavier is a new book that expresses Christ in a refreshingly queer way.

Xavier makes sweet poetry out of his life as a gay Latino with a painful past.  The title poem asks whether people would still love and worship Jesus if he was gay. Xavier also uses that title for the first section of the book. 

Click here for more info and the whole poem "If Jesus were Gay"

LGBT Pride Month was celebrated with prayers and hymns at the Jesus in Love Blog.

The top 6 LGBT hymns are listed in a popular post titled "What's your favorite LGBT hymn?"  Video links include "Singing for Our Lives" and "For Those Tears I Died."  More info

For the LGBT Pride Prayer series,
click here or choose a prayer below:

We have always been, and we will always be by Lea Brown

We stand inside your church by Malcolm Boyd

Hands Around the God Box was an interfaith prayer vigil to end religious homophobia.  It was held in New York City on June 24, 1994.

More than 500 people from 15 lesbian and gay religious groups joined hands and were linked by a rainbow ribbon encircling the Interchurch Center, home to many religious organizations. More info

(Credit: Washington Post photo of Hands Around the God Box)

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