Blessed Bernardo Francisco de Hoyos y de Seña was an 18th-century Spanish priest who wrote about his mystical marriage to Jesus. This queer saint was beatified in 2010 and his feast day is November 29. Bernardo was 18 when...
St. Mary of Egypt died in the 5th century and was, according to legend, a sexually insatiable libertine who went on an “anti-pilgrimage” to Jerusalem for the sole purpose of having dalliances with pilgrims. She tried to enter a...
In a 1998 essay, Peter Sweasey discussed sexual identity as part of the path toward spiritual discovery. Do his insights hold up some 27 years later? In 1998 it was true that religion by and large seemed hostile to...
The cause of death for The Vivienne, the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 1, has been confirmed – the cause was apparently related to ketamine use. The 32 year old drag star died from cardiac arrest, thought...
The United States has dropped to its lowest-ever ranking on the World Happiness Report, at 25th, down a spot from last year on the list’s 24th spot. The 2025 report was published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the...
Yook Woo-Dang was a gay South Korean poet, activist, and Roman Catholic who hanged himself for protesting discrimination against LGBTQ people by church and society. He died in 2003 at age 18. “If they send me to hell, Jesus...
