My event Congregation, which I mentioned a while ago, is obvious in its references to religion, bibles and churches. I’ve received some response to this, mostly out of a hesitation about showing up, and I understand. For a lot of queer people, church was, for lack of a better word, hell. A place where people judge you and wish for you to change. In that context, going to any kind of church afterwards is obviously an unpleasant prospect.
The idea behind Congregation was to offer an answer to this, while celebrating the social power a church can (and used to) have. Stripped of dogma, prayer and religion, what is church but a social bond for likeminded people that you trust? So rest assured that, excepting the gimmick of calling it a queer church, there is nothing religious about it.