The Queer Interfaith Coalition and its Affirming allies are reclaiming the religious voice from those who have sought to weaponize faith. We believe that all 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals are created in the Divine Image and that advocacy for their human rights is not antithetical to faith, but a central tenet of our religious faiths. 

We denounce the historic and current harms caused by fear-mongering, misinformation, disinformation, political maneuvering, and hate speech. We seek to bring healing and justice on behalf of our communities of faith that have, far too often, been responsible for adverse religious experiences and spiritual wounds that have caused enduring harm to 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and their advocates. 

We affirm that the shared understanding of our religious duty is to dedicate ourselves to advocating for the full and comprehensive human rights of all members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community; promoting mental health, realizing the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ children and youth, and ending gender-based violence. We commit to creating and advocating for religious communities that are reflective of these sacred tenets of intersectional equity so that all 2SLGBTQIA+ people can flourish. 

We encourage people of faith to engage in the public square and support the Society of Queer Momentum’s response to rising anti-2SLGBTQIA+ hate, including the #FactsOverFear campaign, helping change the conversation on inclusion in schools, and the #Act4QueerSafety initiative, mobilizing communities to call for the Government of Canada to take action on rising hate and violence. 

We believe that every person is holy, every love and life is sacred, and that our faiths invite us to be more of who we are, not less. We call upon all people of faith to join us in denouncing the damaging heresy that some people are more deserving of equality than others. 

We will not be silent. We will not be invisible. And we invite every person of conscience to join us in advocating for a world where the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals are no longer debatable. 

- Queer Interfaith Coalition and its Affirming Allies

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The QIC was co-founded by Pam Rocker, speaker, activist, and Director of Affirming Connections, and Rabbi Dr. Nachshon Siritsky, Spiritual leader of The Chavurah Collective: Decolonizing Judaism in Mi'kma'ki.

Along with dozens of 2SLGBTQIA+ faith leaders and organizers across the country, we make up the QIC.

Recording of Queer Interfaith Coalition Launch

From the live event March 14, 2024

*ASL Interpretation available starting at minute 4:12.

Join us as we officially launched the Queer Interfaith Coalition (QIC) on National Affirming / PIE Day! We introduce our purpose, have reflections from several speakers from our group, read our open letter, and hold a sacred time of silence for those who are suffering from queerphobic hate and discrimination.