· Ongoing projects ·
From the Borders
Projects to talk about inclusion without limits, always exploring new frontiers.
Collect and offer testimonies and reflections to many voices on the welcome of LGBT+ Christians and their families in our Christian communities
The Vigils for overcoming homotransphobia were born in 2007, giving rise to a movement that would take on ever larger dimensions.
· Meetings ·
Bologna
An annual meeting to talk about pastoral care and LGBT+ people
· Online ·
The LGBT Christian Project+ is made up of believers who want to get to know each other and walk together taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the internet, so that no one feels alone. Within our project there are two proposals:
The LGBT+ Young Christian Project (PGC), aimed at people aged between 18 and 35
The LGBT+ Christian Adults Project (PAC),a journey for people aged between 30 and 50.
The Evangelical Project was born with the aim of creating a network of evangelical Christians open to discussion, thirsty for truth, who want to analyze biblical texts from a different perspective and listen to the testimonies and experiences of homosexual believers. Many of our churches have a view of homosexuality as a sin, and not everyone is aware that living their faith and accepting their homosexuality is possible. The project aims to overcome this vision. This is the time to listen with an open heart, continuing to serve God as children and brothers, without repressing or denying one's identity.
The bilingual portal on which African LGBT Christians from the Gay Christian Africa project will try to give voice to those who have no voice in Africa, spreading news, testimonies and hope in a continent that has been forgotten too often. Born from the efforts of a boy originally from Africa studying in Italy, who crossed four central African states in about two weeks to meet various LGBT Christian groups and pastors. With them we want to build a support network that we hope will help them sustain themselves in a reality where you can be arrested or lynched just because you are homosexual. Here is the latest testimony that they sent us and that we translated published here.
· For you ·
With the help of Massimo Battaglio we have created a site that since 2012 has recorded all the episodes of homotransphobia that occur in Italy, provides weekly updated data, thematic reports and contributions to reflect on the impact of homotransbiphobic violence in society, in Christian communities and on the lives of many LGBT people and their families. We would like that, in society and inside and outside the Church, it is not "impressions" or "prejudices" that guide the choices of our legislators, but the news, unfortunately often relegated to the internal pages of local newspapers.
Every day transsexual people experience the struggle of feeling like their lives are imprisoned in a body that does not belong to them and of being denied rights, respect and support in our society and in our Christian communities. This is why we want to give voice to their journey through the commitment of the volunteers TRANSizioni project*, made up of transsexual and non-transsexual people and their parents, to help fight the prejudices that transsexual people and their parents experience every day, in society and in churches, through knowledge and testimony, aware that "we fear what we do not know, and we do not know what we fear“. If you want to contact us, write to us at tendedigionata@gmail.com
Are you an LGBT Christian looking for a priest or religious woman with whom you can talk or open up?
Are you a Catholic parent who has discovered that your son or daughter is homosexual or trans and doesn't know what to do?
Do you feel the need to meet a Christian LGBT couple?
Are you an animator of a Christian parish group, scouts or Catholic Action and would you like to meet with an animator of a group for LGBT Christians and their parents?
Then contact the listening service "I trust you"
· Participate ·
LGBT Christians also exist for what they do, that is, meetings, retreats, conferences. We ask all groups or associations to inform us of initiatives and meetings on issues that concern the relationship between LGBT people and faith.
In every part of the world there are many ongoing processes that attempt to reconcile "faith and homosexuality". Help us translate the testimonies that tell them. Become a "translator of good news".
Join the liturgy of the hours online every day with the young people of LGBT Young Christian Project, Of the Ford of Milan, the Christian parents of 3timeparents network on the Meet de platform La Tenda di Gionata. Every day at 8.30 am we will start our day with LODI, while at 22.30 we will meet again for the COMPline. To participate online from a COMPUTER, MOBILE or LANDLINE phone it is easy, just click on http://meet.google.com/gmg-bwrs-znw . We are waiting for you, everyone is welcome. INFO> https://www.gionata.org/liturgiadelleore/
An attempt to collect and publish testimonies of the journey of homosexual believers online, so that your testimonies can be of help to those who want to understand, discover or learn about this journey.
