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Homodoxy
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a small press for gay/queer literature + theology; The Rearview substack; w/ personal touches by the publisher
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This is the letter I've been sending out! Please do read, donate, and share. I need $439 more until I can apply for grants through my fiscal sponsor, so please give a little if you can.

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Dear friend, I hope you are well! I am founding Homodoxy, a small press for gay/queer theology and literature, and I write to ask for your help starting it. In a moment of increasing censorship and fear, we need good writing about LGBTQ faith and sexuality to buoy our spirits, expand our imaginations, and sustain queer life. Too few books of queer spirituality go beyond tired debates about biblical support for gay marriage, gay ordination, and trans people. Much writing from Christian presses rehearses old arguments while ignoring the complexities of queer life and sexuality; academic presses are beholden to the maintenance of academic fields and peer review, which limit the risks their writers can take; and queer presses tend not to focus predominantly on spirituality. Homodoxy will build a home for writers beyond those limits. Inspired by gay liberationist publishers and pietist tract distributors, Homodoxy will publish fables, theology, essays, novels, devotionals, poetry, prayers, translations, and more. Our texts will explore a niche in the market where spirit, sexuality, and craft meet to produce thoughtful and daring queer writing. Homodoxy is open to all genres, and its publishing program will feature two series: 1. Books Reprinted in Contemporary Contexts, or BRICC: BRICC reprints older, out of-print, hard-to-find, and now expensive queer writing. Its name harkens back with tongue in cheek to the iconic brick thrown at Stonewall. A briccis foundational and projectile. We learn the past to break through present barriers and build new futures. The BRICC series will resemble NYRB Classics in featuring new introductions by writers, scholars, and artists that will frame the republished or newly translated text. I am in conversations with the estates of writers I admire and am reaching out to others. I can’t send out contracts yet, but I hope to republish work by leatherman Geoff Mains, the visionary lesbian poet Judy Grahn, Black pastor and queer liberationist B…
October 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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the new website looks sooooooo good
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screenshot of a white screen with black text: "the vibe "What makes a Homodoxy book." Then, between two ornamental black squiggles that kind of resemble sunglasses: "Red this before submitting or pitching your manuscript."
August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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August's rearview is up—half essay in progress, half invitation to prepare your manuscripts for meeee
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"I"m Putting You on Notice" : prepare your proposals, girl "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit."
August 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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When Edmund White met Tim Dlugos : "On July 27, 1976, White wrote to David Kalstone, the critic, about the occasion. He reports that he was introduced to 'a cute 25-year-old poet named Tim Dlugo or something...'"
"White met Tim a few years earlier. On July 27, 1976, White wrote to David Kalstone, the critic, about the occasion. He reports that he was introduced to 'a cute 25-year-old poet named Tim Dlugo or something"" Samuel Ernest Edmund White's Christian Brothers HOMOREARVIEW.SUBSTACK.COM
July 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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enjoy this absurd paragraph
full thing here:
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-sam
I’ve been thinking, if this essay ever gets picked up, that I will tattoo “slow to anger” and “most loving” on my tits. Or is that too on the nose? Another English expert of eros, drag queen Bimini Bon-Boulash, says, “The nipples are the eyes of the face.” Samuel Ernest Fullness audacity.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours 👀
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"Queers carry around collections of resonant words, or I suspect many of us do. Like pebbles in a pouch." Samuel Ernest, Effeminaming homorearview.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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so happy to get the new @andchangepoetry.bsky.social in the mail, featuring two new poems by me! sharing one here <3, sam
April 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Fundamentalist Christian readings flatten and dull bodies—human and textual. Aurora Mattia's mystically inflected, lush, and sensuous language brings bodies to life. homorearview.substack.com/p/effeminaming
The fundamentalist’s reduction of the Bible to surface prooftexts is of a piece with the transphobic Christian’s reduction of the human body to two genders dependent on two discreet kinds of sexual organs. Both are misreadings that further dull the senses.
April 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A couple passages from Mohammed El-Kurd’s ‘Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.” In this he addresses the question he is often asked when speaking, “Do you want to throw Israelis into the sea?”
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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My copies just came: Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza by Munther Isaac. Foreword by Willie Jennings.

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A copy of “Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and Genocide in Gaza,” by Munther Isaac
March 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It’s the Homodoxy BRICC list! This month’s Rearview is some housekeeping and vision sharing.

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“BRICC” against a textured, brick-colored background
March 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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two queens in the pages of Gay Community News in 1985
March 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“As for My Singing” by Najwan Darwish, translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
March 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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3/3
February 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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2/3 direct action and the simultaneity of action, not consensus, are two strategies she sees as useful to activists today
February 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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posting some passages from the introduction to Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show, on what allowed ACT-UP to be effective 1/3
February 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Just realized I can post videos on here! Late now, but this is the TikTok I made for January’s Rearview:
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February 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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On Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Testament of Mary.’ Part of a longer essay called "Good Gay God: Desiring and Not Desiring a Beautiful Jesus."
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What makes the book unsatisfying to me is also what makes it valuable as its own project, separate from what I want from the gospels: Tóibín is not trying to feed a god to the hungry. Homodoxy Good Gay God homorearview.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Made a big painting yesterday. Put it up today. Unsure of its name. First idea was “everyone ELSE is losing their shit”
January 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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here we are
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"Should he keep his campaign promises, the tyrant will take up the state’s project of disappearance and turn it against itself. The state will eat its own." Homodoxy Miss Appearance
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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In Mr. Homodoxy news, I have finally submitted the first chapter of my dissertation.
Chapter 1 "Prior to Any Book" Kevin Gordon's Pursuit of Sexual Wisdom and the Construction of Historical Theology by Samuel Ernest John Sam Jones, a Welsh Presbyterian seminarian studying at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, wrote home in the summer of 1982. Jones was on scholarship from the World Council of Churches (WCC) to observe how churches "were responding to LGBT folk in the Bay Area," and his letter was a dispatch on the "Christian presence within the gay community" in the Castro. He sent it to the Gay Christian Movement (GCM), a lesbian and gay Christian group in the United Kingdom, to be published in the August 1982 issue of their journal, The Journal of the Gay Christian Movement. In "The Search for Yourself," Jones confirms that San Francisco is a city in which lesbians and gays may live freely (despite occasional incidents of violence). Visiting Polk Street and Castro Street, Jones witnessed many "breeds" of men, all look-alikes! "Leather men" in jack-boots, peak caps, studded and chained leather jackets, and tight leather or denim pants, crotches bulching [sic]. “Clones" in "top-siders", check shirts and denim pants; short, cropped hair and bush moustache. "Denim men" in denim shirts and pants. "Queens" in whatever is the "in" outrageous garb of…
January 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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acrylic sketches on wood from today
January 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Mr. Homodoxy at work
January 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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He Writes, You Writhe. Homodoxy's latest post is an interview with Josh Tvrdy, whose new chapbook won Button Poetry's Chapbook Contest. Ejnoyyyyyyyy!
January 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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tits out in honor of The Rearview’s incoming interview with the talented and hot poet Josh Tvrdy. DROPPING SOON! SUB(SCRIBE)!
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January 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM