La fe como derecho: Oportunidades y desafíos de los activismos LGBTQ+ cristianos

This contribution explores the relationship between LGBTQ+ Christian activism, religious freedom, and secular LGBTQ+ movements across different national contexts. Drawing on reflections shared by researchers from Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Italy, and Brazil during a virtual discussion, it examines the tensions that LGBTQ+ believers face both within religious institutions and within secular activist spaces. The discussion shows that religious belonging can become a site of resistance, political participation, and identity affirmation rather than merely a source of exclusion. Across the cases considered, LGBTQ+ Christians challenge heteronormative religious structures, reinterpret faith traditions, create inclusive communities, and build bridges between religious and secular forms of activism. At the same time, they also confront secular and anticlerical narratives that tend to understand religion exclusively as an obstacle to sexual and gender rights. The contribution therefore emphasizes religious freedom as an important dimension of LGBTQ+ rights, including the right to remain within, participate in, and transform religious communities. It argues that LGBTQ+ Christian activism expands contemporary understandings of inclusion, pluralism, and social justice by showing that faith and sexual or gender diversity are not necessarily incompatible and can become mutually reinforcing sources of political and cultural agency.