FOLLOWING the success of our recent Q&As with our Patrons (still available on our YouTube channel), we’ve invited people with whom we work in partnership to have a dialogue around key issues that matter to us as LGBTQIA+ Christians and allies.
October is Black History Month – Our next LGBT Q&A will be with Revd Jide Macaulay, founder and CEO of House of Rainbow, which began 15 years ago to meet the needs of black African people who are LGBT and Christian. Jide’s work of reconciling faith and sexuality has expanded to include counselling, pastoral support, and human rights advocacy.
Jide is an openly gay, British-Nigerian born in London. He has been a Christian minister since 1998, and is now an Anglican priest, in the Parish of Holy Trinity in East Ham, London, and chaplain at the Mildmay Mission Hospital in central London. Jide is an inspirational speaker, author, poet, pastor, preacher, and HIV+ activist, with a Masters degree in theology. In 2019 he presented the BBC documentary Too Gay For God, which examined church teaching on sexuality and marriage. In 2021 he was nominated in the British LGBT Awards for his Outstanding Contribution to LGBT+ Life.
Jide will be in conversation with OTN trustee Revd Augustine Tanner-Ihm, an openly gay African-American activist, writer, speaker who recently trained for Anglican ministry, and is now a curate at St James & Emmanuel, Manchester, which hosts Didsbury Pride. He is also a Doctoral Student in Leadership, Culture, and Practical Theology. He was also the winner of the 2020 Church Times Theology Slam competition.