In the project the participants tackled the issue religion plays in lives of

sexual and gender minorities (LGBTI). The religion influences the lives of LGBTI youth in the following ways:

•  many LGBTI people are religious and are conflicted between their sexuality and their religion

•  even when LGBTI people are not religious many of their friends and family are, which makes coming out far more difficult

•  religion is often used as a pretext for the opposition in fighting against rights for LGBTI people, which can create resentment among LGBTI people against religion.

Due to that, it is not uncommon for LGBTI people to develop stereotypes and prejudices against religions and religious people.

The mission of the project was to provide LGBTI youth with competencies to make peace between their sexuality and their faith, which will significantly contribute to their psychological well-being. Also, this project has enable young people to better interact with their religious family and friends by using “religious” language and stories to portrait

their sexuality and gender identity in a more positive light than most religions do. Also, the project enabled cisgender and heterosexual to better understand the problems –discrimination and exclusion – LGBTI youth face in their everyday life.

In this project the participants learned what the Holy Books – Bible and Quran – say about LGBTI issues and what are the problems in interpretation of these verses.The participants learned that there is no obvious and direct condemnation of loving and monogamous same-sex relationships in either Bible or Quran and that both the Christian and Muslim traditions recognised the existence of trans people (mukhannathun in Islamic tradition and eunuchs in Judeo-Christian tradition) without portraying them sinners.