Writing for our “Sexuality & Gender Studies Now” series, Dawne Moon analyzes the evolution of views of the LGBTQ+ community among Protestant evangelicals and how LGBTQ+ Christians have started creating a space for themselves within the church. Through her Sexuality Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) funding, she first started researching evangelicals’ views on the LGBTQ+ community in the late 1990s, leading to her current work on understanding “sacramental shame” among LGBTQ+ Christians. She concludes with a reflection on how the SRFP impacted her own career.
Dawne Moon
Dawne Moon is an associate professor of sociology at Marquette University and was a Sexuality Research Fellowship Program dissertation fellow in 1997–1998. She is the author of God, Sex, and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies (The University of Chicago Press, 2004) and articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, and other journals. Her recent work with Theresa W. Tobin has been published in Hypatia, the Journal of Moral Education, and Political Power and Social Theory.