"Gay people and queer people are highly spiritual and gifted."
How has your queer identity and faith identity intersected?
The first thing that came to mind was when I was little and I met someone who lived their whole life as a woman, and then when in their 50s transitioned. My thought was, “Oh wow. So I can wake up one day. And be a different person.” If this person went their whole life, and then had a realization. We have a whole life. I don't know who I am.
You know there's layers to discovering yourself. And it did happen spiritually too. One day I wake up, there's this thing in my world around ancestors, and altars, and Tarot cards, Astrology. It just opened up. And I've seen how much that has changed. And so it's just fluidity, openness to being complex.
When I conceptualize God, it is in everything. That is expressed through me, and through everything around me, and channeling. When it comes to my queerness, it’s also that. Being open to all the different types of relationships that I may have. All the different expressions that I may want to have, at any moment. It also is a freedom.
Both feel fluid. Your queerness and your spirituality. And also both are hard to name. They're very predicated on being present. What works right now. And exploration. Curiosity.
What advice would you have for other queer people of faith?
Be creative and playful about it. Being curious and playful means you can go learn about other communities, other cultures, other ways of being and living in the world. And see that there's another place, another culture where they believe that.
Gay people and queer people are highly spiritual and gifted. You can make your own space for your beliefs.There's enough space for everyone that has beliefs. If there's enough space in this place for everyone to have their beliefs. Then there's enough space in God to hold all those beliefs.