Queer Liberation Month at New Day Church
Every year in June, we commemorate Pride with Queer Liberation Month. At New Day, we affirm queer identity in faith practice. We invite you to join us in celebration of our queerness and yours.
a white block with a rainbow colored heart graphic inlayed with prayer hands. text reads: a litany for queer liberation
A Litany for Queer Liberation
Blessed be God who creates and affirms lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, questioning and all other individuals of queer sexualities and those with gender expansive identities.
God and our ancestors send allies and angels who walk with us, fight with us, and struggle with us. We know that God and our ancestors desire for all people to be free. We gather as a faith-full people with a diversity of spiritual practices. We express our faith in Queer Love and publicly commit to Queer Liberation.
We center ALL queer people and stand with those on the margins: queer people in the Caribbean, queer people across the African diaspora, our queer siblings in Uganda, Zambia, and the African continent, Black trans women, and Black trans men.
We stand in solidarity with queer youth and children, queer individuals who are experiencing homelessness, queer and trans seniors, Black and Brown queer and trans people in the United States who are victims of homophobic and transphobic violence within and outside of their communities.
We repent for transphobia, homophobia and all the ways we’ve fallen short of honoring and loving ourselves. We repent for neglecting one other, for choosing anti-blackness, racism, misogyny and capitalism when it has been convenient.
We grieve our failure to honor the dignity of queer people’s God given right to exist and thrive within the church.
We commit to building a world where all people are free.
Amen.
Queer Liberation Month 2021
Join us on Sundays, as well as outside-of-Sunday gatherings.
FIERCE NYC VOGUE LOUNGE
Come Kiki with FIERCE NYC and New Day for Juneteenth!
March with us!
June 27, 2:30pm, Bryant Park
We’ll march from Bryant Park to Washington Square Park, where the Pride Rally will take place.
Queer performance sunday
Join us for the 2nd Sunday in June in worship as queer artists take the pulpit in performance.
conversation: the spirit of ball
Join us for the 3rd Sunday in June as friend of New Day, Michael Roberson, takes the pulpit.