PANA Institute for Leadership Development

Panel Organizer:  Elizabeth Leung, Pacific School of Religion:  eleung@psr.edu

We are queer transnationals working with, writing about and reflecting on diasporic religious/cultural practices and communities. Through a close reading of three contexts— the confrontation of religious homophobia in API communities, the resistance of LGBT Catholics in Hong Kong, and Filipino-American bakla life in New York City—we explore the spaces at which gender, religion and ethnicity shape theological and political discourse. Each panel presentation suggests that these tripartite negotiations around cultural, gender and religious fidelities not only expose the hegemonic structures that undergird, buttress and constrict queer life, but also inevitably reorient the ways faith and religion themselves are reconstituted.

• Queer Activism, Heteronormativity, and the Home Church:  NRJizers Confront Asian American Christendom

  Elizabeth Leung, Pacific School of Religion:  eleung@psr.edu

• Re-orienting Passion:  Glocalization of  LGBT Catholics in Hong Kong

  Yip Lai Shan, Pacific School of Religion:  lyip@ses.psr.edu

• Performing Faith, Nation and Gender:  Theological Traces within Martin Manalansan’s Bakla Santacruzan in New York City

  Michael Sepidoza Campos, Graduate Theological Union:  mcampos@ses.gtu.edu