Kittredge Cherry, born 1957 in Iowa, is an American author and a priest of Metropolitan Community Church.
Education
Cherry studied at journalism and art history at the University of Iowa. After graduation, she worked as a newspaper journalist and studied in Japan on a Rotary International Journalism Scholarship. She later studied Christian theology at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
Career
She worked at Master Control Console San Francisco, and then moved to Los Angeles to serve as Master Control Console’s national ecumenical officer As part of her ecumenical work, Cherry organized demonstrations for justice in the church, including Hands Around the God-Box at the New York offices of the National Council of Churches in June 1994. She also handled media relations for The Wedding, a group blessing of 2,000 lesbian and gay couples at the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
In recent years, Cherry has promoted artistic and religious freedom online through JesusInLove.org, which she founded in 2005.
She blogs regularly at the Jesus in Love Blog on LGBT spirituality and the arts Her books have been translated into German, Polish, Chinese and Japanese.
She lives as an open lesbian with her life partner Audrey in Los Los Angeles