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Queer I Am, Lord episodes
- Eve Petrie: "That to me was gender euphoria"
Xorje chats with trans poet Eve Petrie about "purposefully" entering religious spaces as their authentic self and happening upon their Biblical name.
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35 min - Blake Johnson: "I'm at a crossroads right now"
Xorje chats with Blake Johnson about his decision to leave the Black Pentecostal Church and find a home amongst Catholics, even as he struggles to find community.
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30 min - Jacqui Oesterblad: "I chose myself & love over lies"
Xorje chats with Yale Law student Jacqui Oesterblad about the winding spiritual road that led her to a very keen observation: she doesn't need words to describe herself to God.
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33 min - Ryan McQuade: "I visualize God in the darkness"
Xorje chats with illustrator Ryan McQuade about being continuously awestruck by the mysteries of God and using Catholicism for his artistic expression.
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32 min - Gabi Horton: "I gave myself a pep talk"
Xorje chats with Gabi Horton about confronting her vulnerabilities as a closeted Catholic school student and eventually giving way to God's time.
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29 min - Grant Hartley: "I feel a lot of safety at my church"
Xorje chats with religious convert Grant Hartley ahead of his formal welcome into the Catholic Church at this weekend's Easter festivities.
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30 min - C: "I think about changing careers twice a week"
Xorje chats with C, a graduate theology student and church employee, about the difficulties of shielding her true identity from colleagues while still accepting the fact that she's "intrinsically ordered" in God's eyes.
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29 min - Patrick Flores: "I tried all three vocational options"
Xorje chats with Patrick Flores of the online LGBTQ Catholic community Vine & Fig about his spiritual exploration (which included roles as a former seminarian, former theology teacher, and former religious brother) and making the choice to not argue with the Church.
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35 min - Krysta Ortiz: "We are holy, thought of & set apart"
Xorje chats with "queer Tejanita" Krysta Ortiz about her foundational relationship with the Church, translating LGBTQ identity through a generational and cultural lens, and refusing to believe in purgatory.
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43 min - Trailer
A brand new interview-based show about the queer Catholic experience that proves God is, in fact, present whenever two or more gather together in God's name.
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About Queer I Am, Lord
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'Queer I Am, Lord' is an interview-based show hosted by openly gay Catholic Xorje Olivares of HeyXorje.com.
Xorje speaks to fellow queer Christians about their spiritual journeys and ties to the religion, their attitudes towards the Church and its exclusionary policies, and their desires to either reform the institution from within or walk away once and for all. Because Lord knows it's not easy to be an LGBTQ person of faith today. But as Christian tradition teaches us: when two or more are gathered in God's name, God is present.