Healing our relationship with love after religious trauma

A PRIDE Month Gathering Honoring Black LGBTQIA+ Religious Trauma Survivors

Healing Our Relationship with Love After Religious Trauma

What is love… when everything you were taught about it came with conditions?
For many Black LGBTQIA+ individuals, love was not introduced as something safe, freeing, or affirming. Instead, it was often shaped within religious spaces—particularly Christian environments—that defined love through rules, expectations, and limitations. Love became something to earn, something to prove, or something that could be taken away.
You may have been told:

• Who you were allowed to love
• How you were allowed to love
• Or whether you were worthy of love at all

Over time, these messages can create deep confusion—blurring the line between love and control, love and fear, love and rejection.
During this support group gathering, we will create a space to gently explore and begin healing our relationship with love.
Together, we will:

• Reflect on how religious teachings shaped our understanding of love
• Examine the impact of conditional love and spiritual rejection
• Begin to distinguish between conditional love and unconditional love
• Explore what it means to experience love that is affirming, expansive, and safe
• Reconnect with our own definitions of love—on our own terms

This space is centered on and created to honor Black LGBTQIA+ religious trauma survivors, whose stories, identities, and experiences deserve to be held with care, dignity, and affirmation.

You are not required to share. You are invited to participate at your own pace.
Whether you are questioning, grieving, redefining, or reclaiming love in your life—this space is for you.
Come as you are.
There is nothing about you that disqualifies you from love.
See you on 6/25/26 @7pm EST!