Celebrating Black History Month: Reverend Jide Macaulay
Reverend Jide Macaulay is the founding Pastor and CEO of House Of Rainbow CIC. House of Rainbow seeks to be a welcoming ministry for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, intersex, and queer people. Carrying out the majority of its work in Africa, it has since moved to include both Muslims as well as Christians who are LGBT+.
He is an openly gay British-Nigerian born in London, a Christian minister since 1998, a dynamic and an inspirational speaker, author, poet, pastor and preacher, HIV Positive Activist.
Reverend Macaulay holds a degree in Law, masters degree in Theology and Post-graduate certificate in Pastoral Theology. He focuses his ministry on inclusion and reconciliation of sexuality, spirituality and human rights.
He writes for various Christian and secular Journals. He has authored several books, Poetry Inspired 2001 and Pocket Devotion for LGBT Christians 2005.
He has won several awards including the 2003 and 2007 Black LGBT Community Award for "Man of the Year" for his work helping people of faith. Shortlisted for the National Diversity Awards 2014, in the category for Positive Role Model. He served from 2007 to 2013 as Executive Board member and Co Chair of Pan Africa International Lesbians and Gay Association. He is currently Africa Regional Representative at the Global Interfaith Network, Board of Trustee at Kaleidoscope Trust UK, Chairperson INERELA+ Europe, nOSCARS Award winner 2014, 2017, 2018 and a Trained Volunteer Champion at Afruca Children's Charity.
In 2019 Macaulay was featured in the documentary ‘Am I Too Gay for God’ last year. The film revealed his struggles with the Church’s teachings about homosexuality. Besides, same-sex marriage has been legal in Great Britain since 2013, but it’s a right the Church of England doesn’t recognise.
Earlier this month, Macaulay was ordained a priest in the Church of England. His ordination was graced by Nigerian gay activist Dan Yomi, his partner Moses, the Rev. Cathy Bird, and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah (Lady Phyll), co-founder of U.K. Black Pride and executive director of the Kaleidoscope Trust.
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