ABSTRACT
Despite the fashion for calendars of gay saints–even Religion is a Queer Thing lists holy homosexuals improbably including St Teresa–such records speak chiefly for a gay presence in religion rather than offer any guide to epitomes of Gay Spirituality. The gay believer is not quite a martyr but a survivor, or what the ancient Celts would have called 'a white martyr'. The proof that gayness is acceptable to God and meaningful is something G. Gerald derives more from his gay theological revisionist reading than any revelations like the kind just cited; in his case any divine message to him is implicit in his experiences only. Larry Kent Graham's revision, with its links to the new eco-theology, suggests a growing independent approximation of mainstream theology to gay theological trends he does not otherwise review. Care, Graham believes, reveals that the central ecclesiastical concern is now precisely the nature, quality and evaluation of relationship.
