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I. Denominational heritage expressions. The gay God of the city: the emergence of the gay and lesbian ethnic parish / Leonard Norman Primiano

Reconciling congregations bridging gay and straight communities / Wendy Cadge

No longer an oxymoron: integrating gay and lesbian Seventh-day Adventist identities / René Drumm

Negotiating a religious identity: the case of the gay evangelical / Scott Thumma

Why join a gay synagogue? / Moshe Shokeid

Latter-day Saint lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered spirituality / Richley H. Crapo

Sexuality and gender in Santería: LGBT identities at the crossroads of Santería religious practices and beliefs / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Buddhist practitioners / Wendy Cadge

Shades of grey or back to nature? The enduring qualities of ex-gay ministries / Christy M. Ponticelli

II. Subaltern/sectarian expressions. Pluralism and diversity: music as discourse and information in a gay and lesbian congregation / W. Bernard Lukenbill

"St. Gerard teaches him that love cancels that out": devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic gay men in Newark, New Jersey / Peter Savastano

A religion of one's own: gender and LGBT religiosities / Melissa M. Wilcox

Liberation in truth: African American lesbians reflect on religion, spirituality, and their church / Aryana Bates

Utopian imaginaries and faerie practice: mapping routes of relational agency / Jay Hasbrouck

Queering the dragonfest: changing sexualities in a post-patriarchal religion / Mary Jo Neitz

III. Popular expressions. The gospel hour: liminality, identity, and religion in a gay bar / Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma

Intermediaries: spirit and transcendence in a sample of "third-gendered" North Americans / Ingrid Sell

Rite to party: circuit parties and religious experience / Paul J. Gorrell

The Harvey Milk show: violence, desire, and gay popular culture / Edward R. Gray

Gay men's spiritual experience in the leather community / Thomas V. Peterson

The spirit within: gay male culture as a spiritual venue / Donald L. Boisvert

Conclusion: Gay religion as a cultural production / R. Marie Griffith.

Gays > Religious life > United States.

Homosexuality > Religious aspects.