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Baby, You Are My Religion: The Lesbian Bar as Sacred Space

Baby, You Are My Religion: The Lesbian Bar as Sacred Space

Cartier, Marie

Hardcover

Religion General General Gender Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 25, 2026

ISBN10: 0367000776
ISBN13: 9780367000776
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2026
Pages: 356
Language: English

Baby, You Are My Religion: The Lesbian Bar as Sacred Space is a foundational work of lived lesbian and queer theology, which offers an exploration of how lesbian bars served as spiritual havens for queer women.

Drawing on more than 100 oral histories, Marie Cartier reveals how lesbian bars from the 1940s to the 1980s functioned as sacred spaces--churches in exile--for women cast out of traditional religion. Through these testimonies, Cartier situates the lesbian bar as a site of ritual, community, and spiritual resistance, where queer women fought to form community, forge family, and survive against the odds. This second edition expands on the original research with a new foreword and afterword addressing the disappearance of lesbian bars and the continuing need for sacred queer space post-millennium. Blending cultural history, feminist spirituality, and theology, the book introduces theelogy--a theology grounded in thee elevating community ties to the sacred.

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