CLGS

Sermons 

"Testimony for Pride Sunday," A Filipino United Methodist Minister, Pine United Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA, 3 June 2007. 

"The Audacity to be Proud," Elizabeth Leung, Pine United Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA, 3 June 2007. 

"Our Journey," Harold Kameya, Mt. Hollywood Congregational Church, Los Angeles, CA, 18 February 2008. "

"In the Spotlight," Patrick S. Cheng, Metropolitan Community Church of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, 14 February 2010.

Cleansed by God," Patrick S. Cheng, Chelsea Community Church, New York, NY, 2 May 2010.

Cultural and Religious Resources

Ghazala Anwar, “Elements of a Samadiyyah Shariah,” in Marvin M. Ellison and Judith Plaskow, eds. Heterosexism in contemporary world religion: problem and prospect (Cleveland, Pilgrim Press: 2007), 69-98.

Patrick S. Cheng, "Reclaiming Our Traditions, Rituals, and Spaces: Spirituality and the Queer Asian Pacfic American Experience," in Spiritus 6 (2006), 234-40.

Duleep de Chickera, “A Spirituality in Christ that Humbles and Transforms,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 91-98.

Yun Cho, "Mapping of Korean American Church for LGBT Task Force," 2005. 

Aruna Gnanadason, “The Struggle to be Human: A reflection on homosexuality in India,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 77-90.

Winston Halapua, “Moana Waves: Oceania and homosexuality,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 26-39.

Lisa Kahaleole Chang Hall, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, “Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature,” Asian American Sexualities, ed. Russell Leong, (New York: Routledge, 1996), 113-118.

Anne-Marie Hsiung, “Gender and Same-Sex Relations in Confucianism and Taoism,” Marvin M. Ellison and Judith Plaskow, eds. Heterosexism in contemporary world religion: problem and prospect (Cleveland, Pilgrim Press: 2007), 99-134.

Kwok Pui-lan, "Asian and Asian American Churches," in Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jeffrey S. Siker (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007), 59-62.

Kwok Pui-lan, "Gay Activism in Asian and Asian American Churches," in The Witness 87, no. 20 (May 21, 2004).

Yu-Chen Li, “Reconstructing Buddhist Perspectives on Homosexuality: Enlightenment from the Study of the Body,” Marvin M. Ellison and Judith Plaskow, eds. Heterosexism in contemporary world religion: problem and prospect (Cleveland, Pilgrim Press: 2007), 135-154.

Leng Lim, Kim-Hao Yap and Tuck-Leong Lee, “The Mythic-Literalists in the Province of Southeast Asia,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 58-76.

Lisa Wong Macabasco, “Embracing the Stranger,” Hyphen Magazine.

Martin F. Manalansan, IV, “Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City,” Asian American Sexualities, ed. Russell Leong (New York: Routledge, 1996), 51-64.

Renta Nishihara, “Sexuality and the Church’s Understanding of Authority: A response from Japan,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 99-113.

Jenny Plane Te Paa, “Theology and the Politics of Exclusion: An indigenous woman’s perspective,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 15-25.

Eunai Shrake, “Homosexuality and Korean Immigrant Protestant Churches,” Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger, eds. Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (Boulder: Lexington Books, 2009), 145-156.

Rose Wu, “A Story of its own Name: Hong Kong’s Tongzhi culture and movement,” Terry Brown, ed. Other Voices, Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality (New York: Church Publishing, 2006), 40-57.

Rose Wu, "Becoming an Inclusive Community: Challenges from Hong Kong's Tongzhi Movement," in In God's Image 23, no. 1 (Mar. 2004).

Rose Wu, Liberating the Church from Fear: The Story of Hong Kong's Sexual Minorities (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Women Christian Council, 2000). 

Bible and Theology

Sharon A. Bong, “Queer Revisions of Christianity,” in Body and Sexuality, ed. Agnes M. Brazal and Andrea Lizares Si (Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007), 234-49. 

Patrick S. Cheng, "Galatians," in The Queer Bible Commentary, ed. Deryn Guest et al. (London: SCM Press, 2006), 624-29. 

Patrick S. Cheng, "Jesus, Mary, and the Beloved Disciple: Towards a Queer Asian Pacific American Christology" (2001).

Patrick S. Cheng, "Multiplicity and Judges 19: Constructing a Queer Asian Pacific American Biblical Hermeneutic," in Semeia 90/91 (2002), 119-33. 

Patrick S. Cheng, "Sin as the Closet, Grace as Coming Out: Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People Today," The Huffington Post (23 March 2010).  See also chapter in Sexuality and the Sacred, ed. Marvin M. Ellison and Kelly Brown Douglas, 2nd ed. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010 forthcoming).  

Patrick S. Cheng, "Hybridity and the Decolonization of Asian American and Queer Theologies," Postcolonial Theologies Network (17 October 2009). 

Kwok Pui-Lan, "Finding Ruth a Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Otherness," in Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005), 100-21. 

Kwok Pui-Lan, “Religion, Sexuality, and Asian and Asian American Cultures: Embodying the Spirit in Our Communities,” PANAAWTM Conference, 18 March 2004. 

Eric H.F. Law, "A Spirituality of Creative Marginality," in Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology, ed. Gary David Comstock and Susan E. Henking (New York: Continuum, 1997), 343-46.

Jeanette Mei Gim Lee, "Queerly a Good Friday," in Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists, ed. Kevin K. Kumashiro (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004), 81-86. 

Tat-siong Benny Liew, “Queering Closets and Perverting Desires: Cross-Examining John’s Engendering and Transgendering Word across Different Worlds.” In They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism, ed. Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew, and Fernando F. Segovia (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009), 251-88.

Leng Leroy Lim, "'The Bible Tells Me to Hate Myself': The Crisis in Asian American Spiritual Leadership," in Semeia 90/91 (2002), 315-22. 

API-LGBT Life

Raja G. Bhattar, Nathaniel A. Victoria, "Rainbow Rice: A Dialogue Between Two Asian American Gay Men in Higher Education and Student Affairs," The Vermont Connection 28 (2007).

“Gay marriage finds support in Asian Communities,” Taipei Times, 20 June 2009

Doug Chan, "Asian Episcopalians Face Growing Church Splits", Asian Week, 4 January 2008. 

Patrick S. Cheng, "Roundtable Discussion: Same Sex Marriage," in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 20:2 (2004), 103-07.

Russell Jeung, “Behind the Asian American Split Vote on Prop 8,” Asian Week, 2 December 2008 

Deborah Lee, "From Race to Sexual Orientation: API Perspectives on Marriage Equality," 15 June 2006. 

Lynda Lin, "LGBT APA Family Portraits," in Pacific Citizen (Oct. 15, 2004).

Trinity Ordona, Coming Out Together: An Ethnohistory of the Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women’s and Transgendered People’s Movement of San Francisco. Santa Cruz: History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; 2000. Dissertation.

Ruth Vanita, Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Palgrave, 2005). 

Association of Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Issues in Counseling of Alabama, "Coming out as GLBT & Asian," AGLBICAL: Ethnic Concerns.

Human Rights Campaign, "At the Intersection: Gay Asian Male? Asian Gay Male?" (year unknown)

Human Rights Campaign, "Religion and Coming Out Issues for Asian Pacific Americans." (year unknown)

Mandy Hu, Alain Dang. “Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait.” A Report from New York’s Queer Asian Pacific Legacy Conference 2004, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute.

Nita Tewari, Alvin N. Alvarez, eds. Asian American Psychology: Current Perspectives (New York: Psychology Press, 2008). [Section on Gender and Intimate Relationship.]

Kevin Nadal, Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice (Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2009). [Chapter on Gender and Sexual Orientaiton (163-193).]