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For me as a celibate gay Christian, Pride Month is a really essential as well as painful time.

I often struggle to celebrate pride because of the monoculture that surrounds it of glib commercialism, superficial activism, and theological ignorance. The emergence of homophobic Christian voices during Pride month is also a major downside. However, with all that’s incorrect with it there is so much that needs to be remembered and celebrated. The very evidence I – a lgbtq+ Christian - can compose this article in a Christian magazine is one.

Someone recently asked me on social media ‘What is being celebrated in Celebration month?’ My double-tongued response was, ‘repentance from the sin of homophobia’. But it’s true! Too often we forget how we really have been freed from atrocious sins.

The list of past homophobic sins includes electro-shock therapy, concentration-camp killings, lobotomies, social and economic discrimination, being locked in jail, hate-crimes and murders, police bashings and parental and familial rejection. These realities are all symptoms of a society and church that hatefully rejected, in their celebration, LGBTQI+ people. And we still live in that world. We still include a church that p