THIS OPEN ISSUE encompasses no less than six research articles, an essay, and two reviews. Two of the articles scrutinize Christian communities as contexts in which queers express desires and resistance, in Finland (Alasuutari) and Norway (Røthing, Lilletun Langeland & Widahl). Eirik Skjelstad explores a young nonbinary individual’s navigation of gender, identity, and social norms, and Lena Sotevik and Amanda Nordin analyse young rural queers’ resistance towards urban norms. Queer waiting in the novel The Hours (von Seth), and bottom shaming (Vytniorgu & Garcia-Iglesias) are other themes explored in the research articles. In the issue’s essay Malin Fors muses on an imagined future in which LGBTQ+ educational interventions would be redundant.