Joining YLGC

Welcome to Young LGBT Christians (YLGC)! We are a group of people aged 16-30, who would describe ourselves as Christian, who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, and who are based in the UK. If this applies to you, we'd love you to join us.

To join simply go to the forum area and click register. You will then need to accept our terms of usage and provide us with a few details.

One of our moderators will then contact you to confirm your registration and you will then be added to the group’s moderated email list which we use for occasional group announcements and will be able to use our forum (if you wish) for online discussions and fellowship.

Here are some quotes from real people on the list. We hope you enjoy them:

"A friend sent me the link to the ylgc website, which I was relieved to see. Its very existence seems to suggest that it is possible to reconcile being gay with christianity."

"I'm glad I found this group, it's really quite comforting I mean I know there are other gay Christians out there but to actually be in contact with some! And there are actually other lesbians! No offence to the blokes but Pride at uni. is largely blokes most meetings!"

"I just want to give a huge, huge, huge thank you to you all for 'being'. This list has helped me enormously to feel like I'm not alone and that there are other people just as crazy as me out there!"

"I think that the great strength of YLGC is that we are essentially a group of friends who can support each other through the ups and downs of being gay Christians in the 21st century church."

"This list started as a place that was only defined by what people wrote on it. There are no rules. It is simply the chaotic, or not so chaotic, result of several people emailing each other en masse."

"Really nice to see so many grounded and hopeful views about all the bible and being gay stuff! Reading all your emails has given me so much hope and joy that i'm not the only one who struggles with my faith and being gay!"

"I am a lesbian and just came out before Christmas. It was the first time I even admitted to myself that I was a lesbian (and for the first time felt comfortable in my skin - and felt beautiful). Like many of you (whose email I have read), I have struggled with my faith, particularly with what it means to be Christian. At the moment, I am on a confirmation course to become an Anglican (presently a Catholic) and have been really concentrating on what it
means to be Christian and a lesbian."

"One thing I did learn from my time in that church was to be true to yourself and stand up for what you believe in, not go with the flow and end up being some unquestioning religious groupie. Your sexuality is part of you regardless of how you chose to express it. I heard about this group through a email sent by Cardiff’s LGB society, at last something decent and worth while to come out of the church."

"Although I've rarely posted messages to the group (being a 'lurker', though I prefer listener') it's been interesting to follow its daily episodes which swing so effortlessly between theological thesis and gritty soap opera! Being gay puts me in a small minority, through necessity a self-aware minority forced from a young age to challenge the world's assumptions and work out what's important and real, good and bad. For me, being Christian means something similar. Neither is easy, and both together can be very confusing. But I wouldn't want to change either one of them - that would seem terribly dull after all I've been through. I've found the list useful - the messages I enjoyed most were the ones from the heart, people telling tales of revelation, triumph, tragedy and anger. Some of them moved me enough that I want to keep them to read again if things get tough, or if people ask me awkward questions. Thank you for that."

"So I hear where all the messages have been coming from . But one thing I know that without this group (even though I couldn't be described as an active member!) I know I wouldn't have come as far as I have in terms of understanding and the realisation that I am not the only one so THANKS!"