Queer and Catholic / Amie M. Evans, Trebor Healey, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Amie M.

Healey, Trebor, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

xix, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

Queer and Catholic examines the culture of how being raised Catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial Catholic nature, or even our flight from and continued struggle with the "the Church of Rome." Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Examining the culture of Catholicism, rather than the dogma or letter of it, these essays and short stories do not seek to address whether or not queers and the Catholic Church can reconcile, or how and why the church should change, but instead explore the impact that growing up Catholic and queer has on us as individuals, writers, and political agents.

Author contributors to Queer and Catholic explore in detail the Catholic experiences of GLBTQI individuals from a variety of diverse cultural perspectives within the Catholic Church. Arranged in sections highlighting commonalities, this comprehensive collection focuses on numerous topics of interest to anyone wishing to better understand the impacts of a Catholic upbringing on GLBTQI individuals, such as sexual discovery, gender issues, suicide, sexual molestation, spiritual development, social conditioning, and family relations. This iconoclastic book reveals how others have overcome, adjusted to, moved on from, or continued to practice Roman Catholicism as fully integrated GLBTQI persons.

Contents:

Apostates

The Fifteenth Station / Austin J. Austin 3

Objective Disorder / Gregory Woods 13

Excerpts from The End of the World Book / Alistair McCartney 15

Two Poems: "Noose" and "Tattoo" / Susan McDonough-Hintz 23

The Erotic Education of Elmer Rosewater / Ernest Posey 27

Heretics

Jesus Is My Father / A. Lizbeth Babcock 39

I Was Always a Marian Heretic / Trebor Healey 49

Binding the God / Jeff Mann 61

Hail Mary / Mallory Hanora 73

Two Poems: "Just Like Jesus" and "Bastard" / Emanuel Xavier 77

"Fragments from a Catholic School Girl's Memory" / Amie M. Evans 81

The Tree and the Cross / Louis Flint Ceci 95

Presion Bajo Gracia / Charlie Vazquez 105

Priests

Father Tongue / Thomas Burke 117

Priests / Ramon Garcia 129

Chain of Fools / Kevin Killian 133

Lesbian Catechism: Samplings from a Life / Mary Beth Caschetta 143

Fully Human, Fully Alive / Salvatore Sapienza 153

Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa / Helen Boyd 159

Nuns

Don't Sing: Growing Up Lesbian in Catholic School / Maria V. Ciletti 165

Hive / Beth Kiplinski 175

A Nun Story / Susan Leonardi 179

My Heart, Also Sacred / Nora Nugent 185

Vague Recollections / Doreen Perrine 191

Good Habits to Hang Onto / An Interview with Sister Soami of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 197

Saints

Ritual, Wonder, and Miracles / Vince Sgambati 213

Queer Thoughts on Catholic Bodies / Anthony Easton 223

Series of One / Lisa M. Kelley 231

Holy Scenes / Emma Day Jones 239

Dance or Die / Jim Leija 243

Reclaiming the Power of Incarnation: When God's Body Is Catholic & Queer (with a cunt!) / Jane M. Grovijahn 249

Angels

Sacramentals / Wesley A. Russell 265

He Wore a Yellow Tulip excerpted from the novel Now Is the Hour / Tom Spanbauer 269

Once Upon a Cross / Therese Szymanski 297

The Prisoners / Ed Wolf 303

Easter Sunday, St. Francis Xavier / Stephen Greco 313

A Cry for Vengeance / J.R.G. De Marco 327

Excerpts from the Journal of a Canonical Bastard / Pansy Bradshaw 335.

ISBN:

9781560237129

1560237120

9781560237136

1560237139

OCLC:

181368723