Who are LGBT Catholics?

Text taken from the book LGBTQ CATHOLICS: A GUIDE TO INCLUSIVE MINISTRY by Yunuen Trujillo (Paulist Press, 2022), chapter 2, pages 7-8, freely translated by Giacomo Tessaro

I am a Catholic LGBTQ person. Many people asked me why he chose to call me like this instead of using terms like "homosexual", "Person attracted to the same sex", or with some of the terms generally used by the Church.

I chose to identify myself as a person LGBTQ Cattolica because it is a term that fully enhances my humanity, which recognizes the fact that I am first of all a person, a daughter of God who adheres to the Catholic faith, a person with a spiritual life and yearning spiritual.

At the same time this term declares that I am marginalized because of my sexual orientation and/or my identity.

Those who do not know well the term LGBTQ often feel it inadequate, because they would like to know exactly "who they are": often we feel the need to stick labels on others to establish how we are different from them, but the labels often bring prejudices and ideas with them preconceptions that do not really represent us.

My hope is that this text helps you to see the Catholic person in front of you without feeling the need to label it, to put aside the prejudices so that it can see it as it really is.