Already been done.
In 1968, a gay man named Troy Perry was kicked out of his pastorship at a conservative church denomination in Illinois, after his homosexuality was discovered and exposed. He moved to California, came out of the closet, and later started a church for the GLBT community: Metropolitan Community Churches (http://www.mccchurch.org/).
Though MCC churches are open to everyone (gay or not), most of the people who attend are in fact gay.
These churches have opened up in most major metro areas in the USA (even in the deep South), and a few exist in Europe and South America.
MCC is actually similar to a main-line Protestant church, but (obviously) does not promote the literalist, anti-gay reading of the Bible that conservative Christians believe and proselytize. As such, being gay is not the basis of religion in MCC churches; rather, MCC represents a progressive and gay-supportive version of Christianity.
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Already been done. In 1968, a gay man named Troy Perry was kicked out of his pastorship at a conservative church denomination in Illinois, after his homosexuality was discovered and exposed. He moved to California, came out of the closet, and later started a church for the GLBT community: Metropolitan Community Churches (http://www.mccchurch.org/). Though MCC churches are open to everyone (gay or not), most of the people who attend are in fact gay. These churches have opened up in most major metro areas in the USA (even in the deep South), and a few exist in Europe and South America. MCC is actually similar to a main-line Protestant church, but (obviously) does not promote the literalist, anti-gay reading of the Bible that conservative Christians believe and proselytize. As such, being gay is not the basis of religion in MCC churches; rather, MCC represents a progressive and gay-supportive version of Christianity.