#religious queer

[lightoml]

[cosmospicegender]

Thank you for being here, nonbinary people.

Thank you for being here, nonbinary women.

Thank you for being here, nonbinary girls.

Thank you for being here, nonbinary men.

Thank you for being here, nonbinary boys.

Thank you for being here, multigender enben.

Thank you for being here, intersex enben.

Thank you for being here, xenine enben.

Thank you for being here, cis enben.

Thank you for being here, trans enben.

Thank you for being here, transmasc enben.

Thank you for being here, transfem enben.

Thank you for being here, transnull enben.

Thank you for being here, transneutral enben.

Thank you for being here, fluid enben.

Thank you for being here, adult enben.

Thank you for being here, minor enben.

Thank you for being here, medically transitioning enben.

Thank you for being here, medically non transitioning enben.

Thank you for being here, enben of color.

Thank you for being here, two spirit enben.

Thank you for being here, Black enben.

Thank you for being here, Asian enben.

Thank you for being here, Muslim enben.

Thank you for being here, Jewish enben.

Thank you for being here, Christian enben.

Thank you for being here, pagan enben.

Thank you for being here, enben who use she/her pronouns.

Thank you for being here, enben who use he/him pronouns.

Thank you for being here, enben who use it/its pronouns.

Thank you for being here, enben who use they/them pronouns.

Thank you for being here, enben who use neopronouns and xenopronouns.

Thank you for being here, nonbinary people.

Thank you. Thank you. You're wonderful and amazing and I hope you never forget that.

[czerwonaczaszka]

Always Behind Me

[my-pfp-is-my-current-intrest]

Happy Pride Month to

• ALL aspec people

• Microlabel gender people

• Absolutely no gender at all like zero people and nonpeople

• Transmasc rosboys

• Transfem tomboys

• Trans and queer POC

• Closeted people

• Not sure at all people

• Very sure since childhood people

• Queerplatonic (and queer___ people)

• Mental illness influences your identity people

• Queer disabled people

• Plural queer people

• Queer nonpeople

• Queer religious people

And a very happy pride month to you ❤️

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

*grabs you by the shoulders* Hey. You. Yeah, you. With the eyes. You're going to die. You're going to die, life is crazy and low key unknowable, it's unfair, everyone is going to forget you even existed, the sun is going to go out and you're going to die. Life is nothing but smoke smoke and more smoke. Did i mention you will die?

Now go drink some water. Call your mom. Take a walk with your best friend. Enjoy the sunset. Pray (and don't be a try hard! Just talk to God). Read a good book. Read a fun book. Watch a comedy. Watch a tragedy. Try your hardest at work/school today. Don't stress if you do poorly, just try to do better next time even if only by 2%. Eat some good food. Some fruits, vegetables, some cake. Enjoy your life because it - the good and the bad - is a gift from God. One day the smoke will be cleared but that's not any time soon. Until then, eat and drink and read and laugh and cry and die at peace with the universe.

[nocturnalsoph]

While I have several production-level criticisms of the TTH pilot, I’m genuinely drawn to the story's social context and the emotional arcs of the characters.

First of all, Kongdech's story hits incredibly close to home because I’ve known several people exactly like him: young men from marginalized, rural communities with very narrow horizons.

In 1990s Thailand, remote villages, particularly ethnic minority communities near the border regions (which I’m inferring from how far his parents had to travel) faced severe systemic hurdles. These included barriers to obtaining citizenship documents or national ID cards, extreme poverty, and acute geographic isolation from major hubs like Bangkok. Consequently, this resulted in minimal access to formal education, leaving them with virtually no path toward higher learning or professional careers.

So, based on what he tells Tanrak, it sounds like he's describing a community where basic rights and opportunities aren't guaranteed for everyone. A church scholarship wouldn't just mean religious training; it would also provide housing, education, social mobility, and a genuine path out of poverty. His mother's happiness might be less about "my son is going to be a priest" and more about "my son finally has a future."

Then there's the romance plot. If Tanrak chooses love and ends up with Barth, it strongly reminds me of a movie I watched a long time ago. I can't recall the exact line, but it was also a religious romance. The lead character asked something along the lines of, "Aren't you afraid I'll cheat on you? Because choosing you means I'm betraying God. If I'm not afraid of betraying God, why would I be afraid of betraying you?"

However, looking at TTH from a storytelling standpoint, there is an important nuance here: Tanrak’s ties to the church didn't begin as a matter of free, mature spiritual vocation. The pilot suggests that after losing his parents, he clung to the promise that good people go to heaven. Driven by a desire to see them again, he sought refuge, purpose, and hope within the church, making his ultimate ordination less about a pure calling and more about unresolved grief and longing. That's completely different from someone independently discovering a genuine calling to the priesthood after years of self-reflection. His motivation feels less like a true calling and more like a reaction to loss.

So if the story evolves into him realizing, "I do love God, but I never stopped to ask myself what I wanted," that would perfectly align with the reserved, emotionally repressed nature we've seen since his introduction. The central conflict seems less like "God versus love" and more like duty versus self-discovery, childhood promises versus adult choices, and the struggle between living for a memory versus claiming your own life.

Viewed through this lens, the story seems less interested in betrayal and more interested in whether his chosen path was ever truly a choice at all.

Barth, a young gay man whose estrangement from his faith stems from feeling rejected by religion, creates a fascinating contrast with his foil. While one boy believes deeply but has yet to truly know himself, the other possesses a profound self-awareness but struggles to find a place for belief. Their dynamic forces them to constantly challenge each other's underlying assumptions.

The fact that the show kicks off with news coverage of the 2025 marriage equality act before flashing back to 1996 is hardly a neutral choice. It strongly suggests that the writers want viewers to keep broader social change in mind as the story unfolds. It's a powerful way to remind the audience that the closeted, high-stakes world these boys are growing up in back in the nineties is vastly different from the world that exists today.

Whether they end up together or not in the finale, I think the more compelling interpretation of their bond lies not in "choosing sin over God," but in a journey of self-discovery: a person trying to figure out what was genuinely his own choice, and what had already been chosen for him by grief, circumstance, and societal expectations.

[iwasmadethewayheintended]

I believe that transsexuality is a part of God's plan.

The reason He made me female instead of male at the beginning of this life is the same reason He gave us grapes yet made us work for the wine, the same reason we were given wheat yet had to work for bread, the same reason we were given clay yet had to make bricks and then use those to build houses.

There is love and joy in creation. God called upon me and others to engage in the act of creation, to take the body He gave us and mold it into the image He always had in mind.

So many people perceive transsexuality as a mistake, “God put me in the wrong body”, “God doesn’t make mistakes”, but the truth is that’s not the case. It was no mistake. It was a part of His plan, like all things are. It may not make sense to us and it may not make sense now, but it’s not meant to.