Resources, strategy, and tools for congregations that want to communicate genuine welcome to LGBTQIA+ people — not just in Pride month, but as a way of life.
This is a toolkit for congregations that want to move from privately affirming to visibly present — with practical tools, honest strategy, and language rooted in scripture and lived experience. Not because welcome is easy, but because it is worth the work.
Queer people are already in your pews. They are already in your choir, your vestry, your children's ministry. This site exists to help you see them clearly, name them specifically, and build the kind of community where they don't have to wonder whether they belong.
That is the work. We are glad you are here for it.
Take church blessings where people already are. A complete field-tested guide including sample blessings, biodegradable glitter sourcing, and how to make your own glitter goo.
Read → On Community PracticeHow one Episcopal parish held a marriage vows renewal open to gay, straight, lesbian, trans, queer, and Two-Spirit couples — and what happened when they did.
Read → On Digital WelcomeA practical checklist from the simplest fixes anyone can do today to the deeper infrastructure of genuine welcome.
Read →The Welcome Widget gives your congregation a curated library of messages at three levels of boldness — with your own branding, fonts, and a pride flag of your choosing. Download and post.
Open the WidgetChurch communicators spend a lot of time thinking about what we transmit to the people around us. As a queer person, I am also someone who notices — every June — which houses of worship put something in the window and which ones don't. Pride Unfurled is where those two things meet. It uses pride signage as a consistent, observable marker of how congregations communicate their values to their neighborhoods, and tracks whether that signal holds beyond June. The findings will go back to church communicators — not as a verdict, but as a picture of where we are.