Brian G. Murphy

@thisisbgm.bsky.social

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Activist, author, queer theologian, relationship coach 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ queertheology.com thisisbgm.com 🔵 Connect with your deepest values and live them out 🔵 Build relationships on your own terms 🔵 Sex & queerness are already holy 🔵 Community is key

Brian is wearing a backwards black hat and holding a copy of the book “Monogamy? In this economy?”
Screenshot of a passage from a digital book. Which says: In progressive circles, faith and religion often have a bad reputation. Faith gets cast as silly superstition and religion as a controlling self-preserving institution. In my work as a spiritual practices coach at QueerTheology.com, I offer a reframe of both. Faith, religion, and spirituality are expressions and reminders of our deepest values. They are at times the embodied manifestations of what we believe and how we orient our lives, and at other times they are the inspiration we need to change our behavior to bring our actions in line with our values. Page 83
photo of brian wearing a pink Nike hoodie and wire-framed glasses
photograph of the LGBTQ / sexuality section of an independent bookstore. A number of colorful books are shelves, the bottom three shelves are stocked spine out, the top two shelves cover out. "No One Taught Me How To Be A Man" by Shannon TL Kearns is cover out on the 2nd shelf.
meme is a bisexual flag with black text above which says "Bi and I've died my hair blue" the image credit is "@notdefining"
Medium shot of Brian smiling at camera with a blurry background. He’s wearing a maroon t shirt and has short blonde hair parted to one side. In the blurred hangouts is a bookshelf with a warm white light on it and a tall skinny blue floor lamp emitting a soft teal light.
Brian is wearing a black sweatshirt and blue jeans standing in front of a menorah. The sweatshirt has “Very good.” written on it in bold letters. “Very” is a rainbow gradient and “good.” is white. He is holding the lit shamash candle and mid-speech. One unlit candle is in the menorah
Photo of Brian in a car. The bright blue sky is visible through a snow dusted snow roof
black and white photograph of Brian and his husband, shot from a low angle. brian is holding a disco ball in one hand, his husband is wrapped in a feather boa
A white man with short, wet, blonde hair is wearing a blue ocean-inspired patterned brief-cut swimming suit and black sunglasses is in the ocean at mid-thigh depth. A small wave breaks in the foreground.
Photo of Brian wearing a tshirt that says “good fruit” in all caps block lettering. On the shirt are also 3 emojis: peach, apple, eggplant
Photo of Brian wearing a tshirt that says “good fruit” in all caps block lettering. On the shirt are also 3 emojis: peach, apple, eggplant
Two men pose for a mirror selfie in front of a blue, red, and behind shower curtain. One is sitting. The other is holding hair scissors and a comb.
Two white men, one wearing an orange shirt one wearing a brown shirt stand in front of a bright red stand mixer
bubble font in the shape of a heart reads "Chosen family is real family"
White man with blond hair wearing a multi-colored patterned Speedo-cut bathing suit. He is wearing reflexive sunglasses, laying on a green and white striped towel, and reading the book “Opening Up”
Brian laying in bed sick, with a sleep eye mask pushed up into his hair
Two 20-something-year-olds, a white man with short dirty blonde hair and a white woman with shoulder length dirty blonde hair, in matching blue t-shirts that say “Lake Champion ‘04 Young Life Summer Staff ‘Workin Wonders’”
Shirtless white male with blonde hair takes a mirror selfie
Screenshot of a post from Threads by ronaldfilipkowski which reads: "Joe Scarborough dismissed critics of his trip to MAL, saying they are disconnected from “the real world.” Dear Morning Joe, we are part of the Real World, and elitist condescension only makes this worse. Story."
Screenshot of a Bible website Luke 6:20-26 Common English Bible Happy people and doomed people 20 Jesus raised his eyes to his disciples and said: “Happy are you who are poor, because God’s kingdom is yours. 21 Happy are you who hunger now, because you will be satisfied. Happy are you who weep now, because you will laugh.
3 White men with short hair wearing shorts and t-shirts laugh and embrace as friends while standing outside on the wooden balcony of a house