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1 See Gerard Loughlin, ed., Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007).
2 See Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West, and Thomas Bohache, eds., The Queer Bible Commentary (London: SCM Press, 2006).
3 For a helpful discussion of the term “queer” in the context of theological education, see Carter Heyward, “We’re Here, We’re Queer: Teaching Sex in Seminary,” in Body and Soul: Rethinking Sexuality as Justice-Love, ed. Marvin M. Ellison and Sylvia Thorson-Smith (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2003), 78–96.
4 See “queer,” Oxford English Dictionary Online (June 2010 draft revision), http://www.oed.com.
5 For additional resources about transgender issues, see Susannah Cornwall, “‘State of Mind’ versus ‘Concrete Set of Facts’: The Contrasting of Transgender and Intersex in Church Documents on Sexuality,” Theology and Sexuality 15, no. 1 (Jan. 2009): 7–28; Joanne Herman, Transgender Explained for Those Who Are Not (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009); Victoria S. Kolakowski, “Toward a Christian Ethical Response to Transsexual Persons,” Theology and Sexuality no. 6 (March 1997): 10–31; Susan Stryker, Transgender History (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008).
6 See Nancy Wilson, Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible (San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 231–80 (outlining a “queer” theology of sexuality that is grounded in “promiscuous hospitality”).
7 See Robert Williams, Just as I Am: A Practical Guide to Being Out, Proud, and Christian (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), xxv (explaining his decision to use “queer” instead of “gay” or “gay and lesbian”).
8 See “Queer Nation,” Oxford English Dictionary Online (December 2007 draft entry), http://www.oed.com.
9 Robert E. Goss, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2002), 228–29.
10 Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2008), 277.
11 See Martti Nissinen, Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998), 128–34 (“The Interpretation of Same-Sex Relations Then and Now”).
12 For a discussion of Butler’s work in the context of religious studies, see Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville, eds., Bodily Citations: Religion and Judith Butler (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).
13 Gerard Loughlin, “Introduction: The End of Sex,” in Louglin, Queer Theology, 9–10.
14 Wilson, Our Tribe, 231–80.
15 See Luke 1:52.
16 Marcella Althaus-Reid, Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics (London: Routledge, 2000), 134.
17 Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God (London: Routledge, 2003), 7.
18 See Elizabeth Stuart, “Making No Sense: Liturgy as Queer Space,” in Isherwood and Jordan, Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots, 113–23; Elizabeth Stuart, “The Priest at the Altar: The Eucharistic Erasure of Sex,” in Althaus-Reid and sherwood, Trans/formations, 127–38; Elizabeth Stuart, “Sacramental Flesh,” in Loughlin, Queer Theology, 65–75.
19 See e.g., Loughlin, Queer Theology; Althaus-Reid and Isherwood, Trans/formations.
20 See Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1984).
21 See generally Gen. 19.
22 See Daniel A. Helminiak, What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality, millennium ed. (Tajique, NM: Alamo Square Press), 43–50.
23 Wilson, Our Tribe, 231–80.
24 See Kathy Rudy, Sex and the Church: Gender Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), 108–30.
25 For a description of the standard LGBT “texts of terror” (that is, Gen. 19, Lev. 18:22, Lev 20:13, Deut. 22:5, Deut. 23:1, Rom. 1:26–27, 1 Cor. 6:9, and 1 Tim. 1:10) and responses by LGBT theologians, see Helminiak, What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality; Goss, Queering Christ, 185–220; Justin Tanis, Trans-Gendered: Theology, Ministry, and Communities of Faith (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2003), 55–84 (transgender passages); Sally Gross, “Intersexuality and Scripture,” Theology and Sexuality 11 (September 1999): 65–74 (intersex passages). Other resources include L William Countryman, Dirt, Greed and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1988); Peter J. Gomes, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996), 144–72; DJ. Good, “Reading Strategies for Biblical Passages on Same-Sex Relations,” Theology and Sexuality, no. 7 (Sept. 1997): 70–82; and Mark D. Jordan, The Ethics of Sex (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2002). For a helpful resource for LGBT people who are recovering from the abusive use of the Bible, see Rembert Truluck, Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse (Gaithersburg, MD: Chi Rho Press, 2000).
26 For discussions about queer hermeneutics, see Timothy R. Koch, “A Homoerotic Approach to Scripture,” Theology and Sexuality, no. 14 (Jan. 2001): 10–22; Mona West, “Reading the Bible as Queer Americans: Social Location and the Hebrew Scriptures,” Theology and Sexuality, no. 10 (March 1999): 28–42.
27 See Wilson, Our Tribe, 111–64. Texts cited by Wilson include 1 Sam. 18:1–4, 20:14–17 (Jonathan and David); Ruth 1:16–17 (Ruth and Naomi); Matt. 8:5–13, Luke 7:1–10 (the Roman Centurion); Acts 8:26–40 (the Ethiopian Eunuch), John 11 (Mary, Martha, and Lazarus).
28 Guest et al., Queer Bible Commentary, xiii.
29 See Theodore W. Jennings, Jacobs Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel (New York: Continuum, 2005); Ken Stone, ed., Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2001); Tom Hanks, The Subversive Gospel: A New Testament Commentary of Liberation (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2000); Robert E. Goss and Mona West, eds., Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading ofthe Bible (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2000); Drinkwater et al., Torah Queeries; Deryn Guest, When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics (London: SCM Press, 2005); and Chris Glaser, The Word Is Out: Daily Reflections on the Bible for Lesbians and Gay Men (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994).
30 See Derrick Sherwin Bailey, Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition (London: Longmans, Green, 1955), viii.
31 See John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
32 See Mathew Kuefler, ed,, The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
33 See John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).
34 See Bernadette J. Brooten, Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996); Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian