The Queer Evangelist by Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo
The Queer Evangelist by Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo
The Queer Evangelist, the memoir of Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (CM), is an intimate and generous account of her many decades of activism, beginning as a street kid in Toronto coming of age in the queer scene. She describes moving into the corporate world when she was eager to become a mother, finding her path towards ministry in the 1990s and then serving as an MPP for 12 years in the Ontario legislature, where she passed more 2SLGBTQ+ bills than anyone in Canadian history. These major wins included banning conversion therapy in the province and passing Toby’s Law: the first Transgender Rights legislation in North America. DiNovo reflects on her theological work and fight against the Christian Right, and affirms the diversity of queer people of faith. As she notes in her book, “My entire ministry was based on my opinion that the Christian Right is neither Christian nor right where queer folk were concerned, and I didn’t hide that fact.”