Are you going to be excommunicated from the church? Will your friends think differently of you? Will your parents accept you? Will you stop being loved? And the list goes on.

He sings, “It’s a revelation/ There’s no hell in what I’ve found/ And no kingdom shout/ How the tides are changing/As you liberate me now/And the walls come down.” God won’t smite you for your queerness.Īs a queer person and ex-Christian myself, there’s a certain kind of despair and fear one feels when the realization that you are gay kicks in.

Sivan’s lyrics allow a feeling of liberation from the toxic ideals Christians hold over the LGBTQ+. Through music, Sivan and Jónsi created the same feel but with a different intent. This is done on purpose to make the listener feel closer to God. If you’ve ever visited a church worship service, you have felt the intense emotional pull that worship music creates. Troy Sivan’s and Jónsi’s song “Revelation” was written for the biographical drama film “Boy Erased.” Gerard Conoley’s memoir turned movie chronicles his experience of being a pastor’s son, coming out as gay and having to endure the atrocities of conversion therapy.

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