Here are excellent resources to inform and support you as you reach out to conflicted Christians in America and help them support LGBT equality.
Here are excellent resources to inform and support you as you reach out to conflicted Christians in America and help them support LGBT equality.
Further Reading
Key Studies
API-Equality LA
Arcus Foundation, Brilliant Corners, and Victoria Research (with contributing editors GLADD and MAP)
Auburn Seminary
Center for American Progress
- The Faithful Divide Over Wedding Vows: A Profile of Michigan’s 2004 Battle Over Marriage Equality
- Keeping the Faith: Faith Organizing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Moral and Civil Rights in a Southern State
- Faith and Family Equality: An Analysis of Arkansas’s 2008 Battle Over Same-Sex Adoption
- Further research on LGBT issues
Family Diversity Projects
- We have Faith: LGBT Clergy, Allied Clergy, and People of Faith Speak Out
- In Our Family: Portraits of All Kinds of Families
- Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and their Families
Freedom to Marry
Human Rights Campaign
- A La Familia: A Conversation About Our Families, the Bible, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Gender Identity and Our Faith Communities
- Additional resources and research
Movement Advancement Project (MAP)
- An Ally’s Guide to Talking About Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
- Talking about LGBT Equality with African Americans from GLAAD and MAP with contributing editors Arcus Foundation, Brilliant Corners, and Victoria Research
- Talking about Inclusive Hate Crime Laws from GLAAD and MAP
- Talking About LGBT Equality with Latinos & Hispanics, from GLAAD and MAP
- Talking About LGBT Equality: Overall Approaches, from GLAAD and MAP
- Talking About Transgender-Inclusive Non-Discrimination Laws: An Ally’s Guide, from GLAAD and MAP
NGLTF/IWR
Public Religion Research Institute
Bishop Gene Robinson's Books
There are excellent books written by a great diversity of voices addressing how best to engage a wide range of conflicted Christians. We offer two books written by Bishop Gene Robinson, the inspiration of LOVE FREE OR DIE, as one place to start:
