>>35181273>the bible simply does not seem to say a lot about the modern lgbt conceptionYou get some lines in the OT that are anti-gay and one that could be considered anti-trans. I believe that there is also an anti-gay line in one of the Pauline epistles. So I would hardly consider it welcoming, just because refrains from a pages long anti-LGBT screed.
>at my darkest moments i think about jesus on the crossWhy limit yourself to existing denominations when it sounds like what you value most out of Christianity is a visceral sense of divine connection/sympathy, rather then a collective worship community? Looking outside of established denominations and the bible as it stands now is an entire world of texts and long extinct denominations from antiquity that were 1000% more LGBT welcoming then almost anything we have today. While also having their own texts (many written before the biblical canon was even formalized) and cosmologies to study and still being authentically Christian (just of a more Hellenic, Alexandrian cultural character then the Messianic Jewish, Jerusalem cultural character that actually won out as the Christianity we recognize today).
Clinging onto crumbs and cope from established denominations when objectively better ones existed in the past just seems weird to me. Especially since the whole community thing does not seem to be of prime importance to you.
>right now i think there's a cogent case for catholicism or protestantismCatholics will consider you in a perpetual state of sin and the best you could hope for amounts to a friendly form of pity. Protestantism is more varied, but the sad truth is that almost all of the most LGBT friendly denominations have basically become Unitarian universalist's in all but name, so it is hard to even still call them Christian.