For diversity-equity-inclusion discourses in managerial and organizational contexts, it helps to understand what spirituality means to LGBTQ persons. This article reports a cross-sectional survey of LGBTQ youth across contexts to understand their views on spirituality as enabling ‘coming out’, identity assertion and imagining and living in newer family forms. For the majority, spirituality meant harmonious relations with self and others and a sense of peace, unconditional love and compassion. A higher proportion of LGBTQ youth suggested that spirituality deconstructs the normative by aiding generosity in one’s thinking; aids rewriting family norms and forms through contentions of soul union and divine cohabitation; gives the scope to imagine totally new ways of living the family; and, helps in reconfiguring the family institution. Higher formal education, belonging to the middle class and Christian religion were strong predictors of respondents’ views.
Samta P. Pandya (Thu,) studied this question.