Category: Christian lesbians

Christian lesbians

Lesbica e cattolica. Alla ricerca della mia pienezza

Testimonianza di Ellis Delaney*, pubblicata su Unity (Stati Uniti) il 25 luglio 2025. Liberamente tradotta dai volontari del Progetto Gionata. Mi sembra di aver vissuto tutta la vita alla ricerca della pienezza, di un senso di appartenenza, di una via per ritrovare il legame con qualcosa di più grande. Ho spesso avuto la sensazione di restare a galla a fatica,...

Jonathan's Tent Testimonials / Christian lesbians

Perché sarò pellegrina a piedi con i cristiani LGBT+ verso la Porta Santa?

Testimonianza inviataci da Yveline, una partecipante francese al pellegrinaggio giubilare a piedi dei cristiani LGBT+ lungo la Via Francigena Sud (29 agosto – 7 settembre 2025). Traduzione de i volontari de La tenda di Gionata Un primo desiderio: “una festa di famiglia” Sono stata battezzata 68 anni fa, e da allora vivo e mi impegno come cristiana. Per me la Chiesa cattolica è come...

Christian lesbians

I discovered lesbian and Christian at forty years. Could I understand it before?

Testo di Alyce Keener*, pubblicato su Whosoever (Stati Uniti) in data 5 giugno 2023. Liberamente tradotto dai volontari del Progetto Gionata. Ho fatto coming out con me stessa a quarant’anni. Però continuo a domandarmi: non avrei potuto capirlo prima? L’ho chiesto a tante persone LGBTQ+: “Quando l’hai capito?”. Molti mi hanno risposto: “Alle superiori”. E allora perché io no? È...

Christian lesbians

Lesbian and Christian: a voice that my church does not want to listen

Testimony of Ada of the Ponti da Bu building of Naples because I continue to hope that something can change, to *hope *(practice hope and spread hope)? Because, while continuing to be considered considered/*on the margin, and so far completely "invisible" for the new pope, I continue with great effort to have the strength to testify the beauty of love ...

Christian lesbians

3 days to find yourself: that lesbian love that "was not a phase"

Testimony collected by the volunteers of Gonate Ilaria's tent is 23 years old, he attends university with passion, even if he is now in full exam session and time always seems too little. On Sunday the catechist has been in the parish, since he was 18 years old. He believes it, puts his heart into it. I like children, their unscrupulous questions and their ...

Christian lesbians

How I reconciled my Catholic faith with my love for another woman

Testimony of Janine Scott-Dos Santos*, published on the Outreach website (United States) on March 27, 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project Crescendo in a Catholic family in South Africa, my faith has always been the solid ground under my feet. I was educated to believe in the loving embrace of God, guided by the teachings of the Church. As a girl, I have ...

Christian lesbians

Be a lesbian Catholic. My story of identity and love

Testimony of Anna Buescher* Published on Medium (United States) on May 10, 2022. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. When you ask someone to imagine a homophobic, the image that immediately comes to mind is often that of an elderly, white, Catholic person who lives in a rural or suburban town and who pronounces hatred speeches claiming to be ...

Christian lesbians

What can teach everyone the spiritual path of LGBTQ+ people

Text by Dominica Applegate*, published on Whosoever ** (United States) on January 11, 2020. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. When I left the open, I was just over 30 years old and I was very involved in a conservative evangelical church. It was not customary to hear positive things from the pulpit on the LGBTQ+community. Indeed, it was firmly preached as a wicked and sinful. Married to a ...