Jere from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
This course invites to reflection on the cultural spaces that have emerged out of the intersection of religion and queerness since the late 19th century in the Anglosphere, with particular reference to England and the United States. Because mainstream LGBTQ+ historiography has seen religion as an essentially hostile force, religion as a queer resource has been understudied. Recent scholarship has underlined the importance of queer religious spaces in the pre-history of the Gay Liberation Movement. These spaces have continued since then to play a significant role because they relate queer people to the meaning of life, the sacred and/or spirituality by revisiting the spiritual heritage of Anglo-American culture and deconstructing its binaries related to gender and sexuality.