About Eve

Eve Tushnet is the award-winning author of Gay & Catholic and co-founder of Building Catholic Futures

Eve is the co-founder of Building Catholic Futures, a nonprofit equipping Catholic institutions to evangelize and catechize gay people of all ages. She has led workshops, discussions, consultations, and training in dioceses across the country, serving ministry leaders, priests, Catholic educators, parents, and LGBT/same-sex attracted believers and seekers. She has written frequently on gay Catholic spiritual journeys, including in her two award-winning books, Gay and Catholic and Tenderness.

She has written two novels, is the editor of the anthology Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds, and has contributed to several books, including Sex and the Spiritual Life.

Eve has written on the paths of love available to gay Christians for a wide range of publications, including America, The American Conservative, Commonweal, and Christianity Today, and online for the Atlantic, New York Times, and Washington Post. She has spoken at multiple conferences for LGBT Christians, including Revoice and Q Christian. She also writes and speaks frequently on arts and culture, covering everything from medieval friendship traditions to men's figure skating.

Today, she lives in California with her partner and family, with whom she shares a covenant friendship modeled after the promises of Ruth to Naomi: “Wherever you go, I will go. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.”