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For decades Africans have been fed a steady stream of loud, poisonous and alienating anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric from dogmatic religious leaders. This rare gem of a book gifts readers with the hitherto-muted voices of 24 religious leaders from E. Africa who have taken a strikingly different path from the mainstream; evoking empathy, love and compassion. To crown it all, they speak with dignity, intelligence and a calmness that is so refreshing and authentic. A must read. * Professor Sylvia Tamale, Ugandan Decolonial feminist Scholar * These 24 testimonies from East Africa surprise and delight. LGBTQI Christians, Muslims and allies counter exclusion and prejudice with narratives of resilience and hope. They offer compassionate insights into scriptural stories and the lives of faith they share. Collectively, the stories show an undercurrent in religious affiliation in East Africa that challenges dominant narratives. * Emma Wild-Wood, University of Edinburgh, UK *

For decades Africans have been fed a steady stream of loud, poisonous and alienating anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric from dogmatic religious leaders. This rare gem of a book gifts readers with the hitherto-muted voices of 24 religious leaders from E. Africa who have taken a strikingly different path from the mainstream; evoking empathy, love and compassion. To crown it all, they speak with dignity, intelligence and a calmness that is so refreshing and authentic. A must read. * Professor Sylvia Tamale, Ugandan Decolonial feminist Scholar *

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David Kuria Mbote is a community activist and a leader of the Kenyan gender and sexual minority rights movement. Barbara Bompani is Reader in Africa and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. She is co-editor of Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State (2017). Adriaan van Klinken is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism and Arts of Resistance in Africa (2019). Damaris Parsitau is a scholar of religion and a former Director of the British Institute for Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. She currently serves as President of the African Association for the Study of Religions.

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