RELIGIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL AFFIRM, ACCEPT, AND UPLIFT QUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE.

ELIGION HAS PLAYED AN OUTSIZED ROLE in the persecution and marginalization of LGBTQ+ folks all over the world, practically since the beginning of what’s considered “modern civilization.” With its ties to and power over government, religious texts have been weaponized, wielded by religious authorities to enforce conformity, cisheteronormativity, and repression of sexual and gender expression. As a result, there is not just blood on their hands—it’s up to their ears. God—in almost all of their names and expressions—has been invoked where queer children are cast on the street, as we are psychologically tormented into so-called conversion, as we are raped into submission, and as we are murdered, whether by