'I can now thank God when I come': Sex, faith and the body in the lives of non-heterosexual Dutch Protestant women

Dynamics of belonging and exclusion and the notion of being ‘in-between’ are common in dominant discourse regarding sexuality and Christianity in Dutch society. Homosexuality and Christianity are considered as incompatible, with religious homosexuals moving in between religiosity and sexuality. This dominant discourse in both media and academia mainly focuses on homosexual men. As a consequence, the lives and narratives of religious non-heterosexual women are silenced and made invisible ‐ an exclusion which this article seeks to address. Based on in-depth interviews with non-heterosexual Prote... Mehr ...