ABSTRACT
This chapter begins as buka tirai, or opening the drapes, with the admissions of the author, who identifies and operates as cisgender, gay, man, an academic, a queer theologian and a theological activist in a country that disapproves of gender variance and sexual diversity. This chapter demonstrates the indivisible interplay of queer sexual theories and theologies that draw on the lived experiences, insights and life circumstances of 30 gay and bisexual Malaysian men. The author looks to the interweavings of sexuality and faith as the basis of queer theologising. He foregrounds the centrality of human–divine interrelationality in human existence as a theological imaginary, and focuses on human lives as loci theologici, or resources of theology. Central to this chapter is the author’s formulation of a Grounded Queer Sexual Theology, with which he undertakes his analysis, interpretation and theorising. This is a socio-theological, incarnational framework that comprises Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology, queer theologies and the theological methodology of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC).
