ABSTRACT
In 1993 Robert Goss, a former Jesuit priest and gay/AIDS activist published Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto. This book is significant in the history of gay and lesbian theology because it marks the transition from gay and lesbian theology to queer theology. Goss maintains that Christology has been used to convey an anti-sexual rhetoric throughout Christian history. Following feminist and liberation biblical hermeneutics Goss seeks to develop a hermeneutics based upon the epistemological privilege of the oppressed and a hermeneutics of suspicion. Queer Christians need to be wary of a tendency among oppressed groups to express internalised homophobia in hostility towards themselves. Gay men and lesbians therefore name God as the coempowering ground of their erotic practice and spirituality'. This erotic power propels queer Christians into solidarity and connectedness with all other oppressed groups and with the earth itself.
