Homodoxy is a small press that publishes literary and theological gay/queer texts. Its books are unburdened by imprimaturs, tenure committees, and heterosexist ideas of decency and respectability. We publish books worth burning.
Homodoxy is inspired by gay liberation publications in which sex and spirit mingled. An article on Jesus and sexuality would share the page with an advertisement for a local bathhouse.
Homodoxy is also inspired by the history and fervor of evangelical publishing and pietist colportage—the distribution of tracts, Bibles, and books as a priestly vocation.
With eclectically Christian roots, Homodoxy is open to writers from any faith or religion, and those whose encounters with Spirit are otherwise unclassifiable.
Catalogue
The press will publish the best new and old LGBTQ literary and theological writing in all forms. Its catalogue will feature new writing, a series of reprints, and a series of short books on a one topic.
Books Reprinted in Contemporary Context (BRICC)
- A bricc is foundational and projectile.
- Includes out-of-print books, collections of previously uncollected writings by important gay/queer voices, and translations, each with a new introduction by a contemporary writer or scholar.
- Similar to the New York Review of Books’ Classics series and McNally Editions.
Unitudes
- A unitude is an exercise: complexity in simplicity and simplicity in complexity.
- Reflections on a big theme important to an author’s life and work. Not comprehensive introductions, but songs, prayers, meditations, arguments that unfold the theme’s complexities.
- Topics could include ministry, prayer, promiscuity, celibacy, gender, salvation, writing, play, history, creation, race, liberation, death, work, etc.
- For writers who wish to develop something specifically for Homodoxy.
- Similar to Duke’s Practices, Atlantic Editions, and Biblioasis’s Field Notes.
The Rearview
A Substack for views, reviews, and interviews by the press’s publisher and friends. Subscribers can expect one piece per month delivered to their inbox.