Baby, You Are My Religion: The Lesbian Bar as Sacred Space

Baby, You Are My Religion: The Lesbian Bar as Sacred Space is a foundational work of lived lesbian and queer theology, which offers an exploration of how lesbian bars served as spiritual havens for queer women.

Drawing on more than 100 oral histories, Marie Cartier reveals how lesbian bars from the 1940s to the 1980s functioned as sacred spaces-churches in exile-for women cast out of traditional religion. Through these testimonies, Cartier situates the lesbian bar as a site of ritual, commun...