Lydia’s actually returns to Christianity's roots via the communion of a holy meal. So while the church is in many ways highly progressive - we begin each service refraining, "You are very welcome here," deconstruct the toxic ways in which the Holy Family has been whitewashed, and have, to distance ourselves from the iconography that may evoke hurtful church experiences, created a “cross” of a table with four chairs around it - St. Founded by Pastor Emily Scott, the church operates not with pews but tables Lydians, as we call ourselves, gather weekly to share a meal, as the early apostles would, chatting with our neighbors before diving into scriptures. Lydia’s: a queer-affirming dinner church in Brooklyn. Working a day job at a desk, writing on my laptop at night, and scrolling through Twitter on my commutes between those two activities, maybe I just wanted a sacred place to unplug.
#GAY MEN MASTURBATING IN CHURCH TV#
I’ve worked in New York for five years now, and in those first few if I wasn’t using the internet to find new gay TV shows like Please Like Me or go on dates with men who did not, I was, to my surprise, googling for a place to attend church. Some months after graduating I moved to New York City, where being an out Christian can feel like seeing sweatpants at Saks: not unwelcome, but certainly a curiosity.