A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church

Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith—based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum—seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical, coalition politics.

A House of Prayer for All Peop...