Communities of Color
For communities historically burdened with racial discrimination, the added issue of LGBT inclusion can be particularly difficult to address. These resources address the unique challenges these communities may face in approaching LGBT inclusion.
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A La Familia: A Conversation About Our Families, the Bible, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Rev. Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Rev. Dr. Ignacio Castuera, Lisbeth Melendez Rivera
Human Rights Campaign, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, UNID@S, the National Latina/o LGBT Human Rights Organization: 2011
Resource type(s): Articles
Tools and Activities
Mosques and Welcoming LGBT People
Hussein Rashid
Religion Dispatches, May 16, 2011
Resource type(s): Articles Religion Dispatches, May 16, 2011
Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith
Peter Montgomery, Religion Dispatches, May 31, 2011
Resource type(s): Articles 
Ordination of Hispanic UCC Pastors Lifts Up ONA, 'New Understanding'
Jeff Woodard, United Church News
United Church of Christ, May 24, 2011
Resource type(s): Articles United Church of Christ, May 24, 2011
Bi-sex-u-al
Produced by the United Church of Christ and Filmworks
Resource type(s): Movies and Multimedia 
Braving the Streets Her Way
By Anne Hull
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 3, 2004; Page A01
Resource type(s): Articles Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 3, 2004; Page A01
Embodying Asian American Sexualities
Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger’s (eds.)
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.
Resource type(s): Books Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.
Called Out With: Stories of Solidarity in Support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons
Sylvia Thorson-Smith, Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, Norm Pott, and William P. Thompson
Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997.
Resource type(s): Books Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997.
Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
Walter L. Williams
Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
Resource type(s): Books Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
Kelly Brown Douglas
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2003.
Resource type(s): Books Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2003.
A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men into African American Congregations
Gary David Comstock
Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001
Resource type(s): Books Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001
Homophobic? Read Your Bible
Peter J. Gomes, Professor of Christian Morals, Harvard University; Minister, American Baptist Church
August 17, 1992 New York Times Op-Ed
Resource type(s): Articles August 17, 1992 New York Times Op-Ed
Paradise Postponed
Peter J Gomes
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Address to the 2001 Covenant Conference
November 2, 2001
Resource type(s): Articles Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Address to the 2001 Covenant Conference
November 2, 2001
A Lily Among the Thorns: Imagining a New Christian Sexuality
Miguel A. De La Torre
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.
Resource type(s): Books San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.
In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church
Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion, Pacific School of Religion, 2006, Running Length: 23 min; subtitles in multiple languages
Resource type(s): Movies and Multimedia Frequently Asked Questions
Are there organizations specifically working on promoting LGBT-inclusion in the communities of color?
Absolutely. Two organizations working on this issue in the African-American community are The Fellowship, the Unity Fellowship Church Movement. Moreover, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion hosts The Racial/Ethnic Roundtable Project, with focus on the African-American, Latino and Asian/Pacific Islander communities.
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