Booklist for Lesbian & Gay Catholics
This list contains a variety of reading material: comforting and encouraging pastoral resources; inspiring personal stories; fiction, history, and differing perspectives on coming out, living authentically, faith and sex.
“Congratulations to the Catholic Church for raising so many lesbians over the years.” – Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon, Authors, ‘Lesbian/ Woman’
A Faith of One’s Own: Explorations by Catholic Lesbians by Barbara Zanotti
A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church by Fr. Robert Nugent
A Disturbed Peace: Selected Writings of An Irish Catholic Homosexual by Brian McNaught
A Home for All: A Catholic Call for LGBTQ Non-Discrimination by New Ways Ministry
An Excellent Mystery: The Eleventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Amours: L’Eglise, les divorces remaries, les couples homosexuals by Fr. Adriano Oliva, OP
Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and Lesbian Daughter Share their Story by Carol and Robert Curoe
Binding with Briars: Sex and Sin in the Catholic Church by Richard Ginder
Body and Blood by Michael Schiefelbein
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion and Sensitivity by Fr. James Martin, S.J.
Building Bridges – Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic Church by Fr. Robert Nugent and Sr. Jeannine Gramick
Catholic Identity – Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power by Michelle Dillon
City of Night by John Rechy
Coming Out and Coming Home by Stan “JR” Zerkowski
Confessions of A Gay Priest by Tom Rastrelli
Curious Wine by Katherine W. Forest (not Catholic, but great sex)
Fortunate Families: Catholic Families with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons by Mary Ellen Lopata
Gay Respect In The Good News – A Draft For Discussion by Stephen Joseph Wolf
Gay, Catholic, and American – My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion by Greg Bourke
Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith by Eve Tushnet
Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging and Belief by Erin O. White
Going to Wings by Sandra Worsham
Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
Hidden Mercy – AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear by Michael J. O’Loughlin
Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay, Catholic Priest by Gary M. Meier
Hurting in the Church: A Way Forward for Wounded Catholics by Fr. Thomas Berg
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
In The Shadow of the Bridge: A Memoir by Joseph Caldwell Delphinium
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story by Jeanne Cordova
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence by Nancy Manahan and Rosemary Keefer Curb
Life in Paradox: The Story of a Gay Catholic Priest by Paul Edward Murray
Listen to the Stories – Gay and Lesbian Catholics Talk About Their Lives and the Church by Raymond C. Holtz
Living True: Lesbian Women Share Stories of Faith by Margaret O’Gorman
Love Between Women: Early Christian Response to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten
Love Tenderly – Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious – by New Ways Ministry
Marriage of Likeness – Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood – Coming of Age in the Sixties by John D’Emilio
Murder on Camac: A Marco Fontana Mystery by Joseph R.G. DeMarco
My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity by Dr. E. Ann Matter
On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love by Brian McNaught
Only Say the Word by Scott D. Pomfret
Queer and Catholic by Amie M. Evans
Queer and Catholic: A Life of Contradiction by Mark Dowd
Secrecy, Sophistry and Gay Sex in the Catholic Church: The Systematic Destruction of an Oblate Priest by Richard Wagner
Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir by Scott D. Promfret
Sister Matthew and Sister Rose – Novices in Love by Carol Anne Douglas
Strange Gods: A Novel About Faith, Murder, Sin and Redemption by Peter Daly and John Myslinski
Tenderness: A Gay Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection & Experiencing God’s Extravagant Love by Eve Tushnet
The Catholic by David Plante
The Church and the Homosexual: Fourth Edition by John J. McNeill
The Friend by Alan Bray
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf
The Other Face of Love by Raymond De Becker
The Rite of Sodomy – Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church by Randy Engel
The Sacrament by Olaf Olafson
The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period by Michael Goodrich
Voices of Hope: A Collection of Positive Catholic Writing on Gay & Lesbian Issues by Sr. Jeannine Gramick
What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D.
With Listening Hearts: Understanding the Voices of Lesbian and Gay Catholics by Fr. Peter J. Liuzzi
romantic movie