Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.
Introduction : Repairing bad objects : improper citizenship in queer church -- Too diverse? : race, gender, and affect in church -- Pastor-Diva-Citizen : the Reverend Dr. Brent Hawkes, homonormative melancholia, and the limits of celebrity -- "Why are you doing this?" : Desiring queer global citizenship -- From identity to precarity : asylum, state violence, and alternative horizons for improper citizenship -- Conclusion : Loving an unfinished world.
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David K. Seitz maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at one large LGBT church, focusing on debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police-minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Through cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, he stages reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.--Publisher's website.