Conflict

That is what the media wants, it sells ads. When the debate over marriage equality was being debate in the news one of the things that I noticed was when they had a religious person on they were always conservatives, they never had a spokesperson from an affirming church.

The importance of queer visibility in religion reporting
Nearly half of LGBTQ+ adults identify as being religious. Why are their stories not proportionally included in religion reporting?
Poynter*
By: Julia Métraux
December 6, 2021

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“I think the biggest impact actually came from my mom because I think that it really opened her eyes to the possibility of people being queer and religious,” Froio said. “Years later when I came out, I think that was like one of her points of reference.”

LGBTQ+ stories are often not proportionally included in religion reporting, both in religious and mainstream publications. While queerphobia does exist in religious spaces, an October 2020 report from UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute found that nearly half of LGBTQ+ adults identified as being religious. LGBTQ+ adults of color are more likely to be religious, especially in the American South, than white LGBTQ+ people.
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Positive representation of stories at the intersection of LGBTQ+ issues and religion also varies by faith and denomination. A December 2020 report from the Center for American Progress found that “news media coverage of religion and LGBTQ rights more often cites religiously identified sources that oppose LGBTQ equality.” However, “mainline Protestant and Jewish sources expressed the highest shares of positive or pro-LGBTQ sentiment.”

In the general population many people think that LGBTQ+ are heathens but that isn’t true, I know many LGBTQ+ who are religious and I know a couple of trans priests, one trans person is rector in an Episcopal church and another who is the head of a MCC parish.

The question is why is it under reported?

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*The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Network and operates PolitiFact.