LGBTQ+ Individuals and their Families

Accompaniment for our brothers and sisters in Christ with LGBTQ+ experiences and their families in their quest for wholeness and holiness.

National Groups

Eden Invitation
Original personhood beyond the LGBTQ+ paradigm, Eden Invitation creates space to receive the whole person, grow systems of mutual support, and empower for creative discipleship.

Desert Stream
Desert Stream's Living Waters Ministry provides help for Christians struggling with sexual and relational problems. The help is based on the biblical foundation of compassion, integrity, and dependence on God. Desert Stream seeks to convey Jesus, “full of grace and truth,” (John 1:14) to broken ones seeking mercy.

Boldly Beloved
We are all seeking to love and be loved and to find our place in the world. Boldly Beloved believes that transparency in God’s love and truth is needed in our world. Transparency in our own lives can offer encouragement to others seeking love, peace, joy and belonging. Boldly Beloved offers opportunities for discovering who we are in light of who God is. Learning to embrace more fully the reality that we were created to be loved and go out into the world with the message of Hope found in Jesus. 

Local Groups

Throughout the diocese there are individual outreach and family support groups.  Click here to learn more.

Church Teaching

• USCCB, "Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care," November 14, 2006.
• Pope Francis, "Laudato Si," particularly no. 155, May 24, 2015.
• Congregation for Catholic Education, "Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education," February 2, 2019.
• USCCB, “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body,” March 20, 2023.