Making the Invisible Visible Releases Today

A little over a year ago, I traveled to New York to attend a colloquium about the intersection of bisexuality and faith. The Religious Institute was calling together bisexual ministers and people of faith from diverse religious backgrounds to start a discussion that would ultimately inform their creation of Bisexuality: Making the Invisible Visible in Faith Communities, a guidebook for congregations to use in welcoming, affirming, and ministering to bisexual people. One of the women spear-heading the project emailed me several times before officially inviting me to the colloquium, mentioning that my name “kept coming up” in relation to Catholicism and bisexuality. I laughed and told her it was because I was the only Out Catholic Bisexual in the World. (Luckily, that isn’t true.)

The book features a short excerpt from my essay about being bisexual that was published in Unruly Catholic Women Writers, as well as a link to my article for DignityUSA. It was writing about these issues that brought the Religious Institute to me, proving that what we write “for free” can pay off in ways we hadn’t imagined.