There
are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their
pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter
churches with love letters hidden in their bags, because their need for
God and their need for love refuse to fit into different compartments.
But what goodness and righteousness can prevail if you are in love with
someone whom you are ecclesiastically not supposed to love? Where is God
in a salsa bar? The Queer God introduces a new theology from the
margins of sexual deviance and economic exclusion. Its chapters on
bisexual theology, Sadean holiness, gay worship in Brazil and queer
sainthood mark the search for a different face of God--the Queer God who
challenges the oppressive powers of heterosexual orthodoxy, whiteness,
and global capitalism. Inspired by the transgressive spaces of Latin
American spirituality, where the experiences of slum children merge with
queer interpretations of grace and holiness, The Queer God seeks to
liberate God fromthe closet of traditional Christian thought, and to
embrace God's part in the lives of gays, lesbians, and the poor. Only a
theology that dares to be radical can show us the presence of God in our
times. The Queer God creates a concept of holiness that overcomes
sexual and colonial prejudices and shows how queer theology is
ultimately the search for God's own deliverance. Using liberation
theology and queer theory, it exposes the sexual roots that underlie all
theology, and takes the search for God to new depths of social and
sexual exclusion.
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