Queer Theologies as Transgressive Metaphors: New Paradigms for Hybrid Sexual Theologies

Abstract

Theology in the United States, therefore, has undergone a shift from using a melting pot model, in which theology as officially understood sought a dominant or common human experience, to a model that values the collage of different faces, voices, styles, questions, and con structs. Black theologies, Asian-American theologies, feminist theolo gies, womanist theologies, theologies from gay men and lesbian women, and theologies offered from the perspectives of the disabled are all present on the scene today. Where once such differences were either ignored or belittled as 'special interests,' theology today is increasingly understood as having its vitality only insofar as its traditional sources embrace new voices and their differences...¹