Queer hymns for a peculiar people

The mission of the The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada “is to encourage, promote, and enliven congregational singing.”

Not content to remain in an obscure, irrelevant corner of unambiguous heterosexuality, the society has produced a volume containing hymns “affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community”.

If you choose to download it, you will find such timeless titles as: “Queerly Beloved”, “Quirky Queer and Wonderful”, “We Are a Rainbow”, “Who Is the Alien” and, my favourite, “God of Queer Trangressive Spaces” in which you will find the gem: “God’s own deviance is Jesus, born of virgin, Word made flesh”.

I don’t know how we’ve managed to do without this for so long.

From here:

Queer hymn collection offers ‘much-needed’ resource for LGBTQ+ Anglicans and allies

On July 16, three days after the vote at General Synod, the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada released a new hymn collection, Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community. Produced by a volunteer committee from the Hymn Society, an ecumenical non-profit association that seeks to promote congregational singing, Songs for the Holy Other includes almost 50 “queer hymns” by and for individuals who identify with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.