I'm interested to know if there's a queer or otherwise radical Christian community on Hubski, or if there are queer Christians on here who aren't currently active in that regard. So, take this post as a way for us to find each other if we're out there.
This is something I wrote elsewhere as a quick overview of how I conceive of a queer Christianity.
The term queer has a two-part history, and it is in both of these senses that I use it here. On one hand, it can simply mean weird, strange, or unusual. We are able to substitute any of these words for transgressive: of norms, of traditions, of structures. However, it also carries a second, political sense. Originally a slur thrown at sexual and gender minorities, it has since been reclaimed and serves as a badge of pride for those individuals who now wear it. Indeed, an entire field of queer theory has emerged in academia, and it is the intellectual pool from which a queer Christianity can be drawn out. Queer, in that sense, sometimes holds a radical connotation, one of anti-assimilation and anti-hierarchical politics. Here, this connotation is deliberate and will be maintained.
With this in mind, a queer Christianity is one which deliberately transgresses the boundaries of Christian culture. It stands against the Scylla and Charybdis of liberal and reactionary theology, instead taking a radical stance. At the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, it opposes all hierarchies and institutions that marginalize: heteronormativity, the patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism. For us, Christianity is not a set of beliefs or metaphysical claims about the afterlife, but a theological praxis. Our Christ is the Christ who chased the money-lenders from the Temple, walked with sex workers, and stood in solidarity with the marginalized, who praised the Samaritan over the pharisee and who died under the mechanisms of the Roman state—the Christ of the universal absolute.
Our God is the God of the oppressed, and she suffers with us.
I think we have to import reddit's Radical Christianity community into here.
I am neither religious nor gay, but I am very interested in religious studies, and what you describe sounds very similar to me to what I have read regarding liberation theology. While liberation theology is most known as a theology of and for the poor and oppressed, it also is intimately concerned with social systems of inclusion and exclusion in the context of the Christian faith. For example, the concept of purity and impurity in relation to people, what it means to be created in the image of God, and the relationship between Christians and the social underclasses of different societies and cultures. Historically and internationally, there are clear similarities with LGBT persons and the very poor in terms of social labeling and status. Tomes are written on God's relationship to those rejected by society. In a time long ago, when I was a religious Catholic, my favorite verse was always Matthew 25:31-46, in which God intimately identifies with the poor and mistreated. It still brings joy to my heart to see a Jesuit as Pope in Rome.
Queer Christianity deeply interfaces with liberation theology. I would regard it as an extension of the aims established by the latter.