In this study, I investigate how the meanings of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences involving religion influence, create, and maintain symbolic boundaries in the LGBTQ+ community surrounding religion. Prior research has focused on the perspectives of religious LGBTQ+ people, but often leaves out the perspectives of non-religious LGBTQ+ people in their analysis of religious and LGBTQ+ boundary work. To understand this process, I interview both religious and non-religious community members to investigate their experiences with and perceptions of religion and religious people and their understandings involving "coming out as religious" in the LGBTQ+ community. To recruit participants, I contacted LGBTQ+ organizations and personal networks to gain access to LGBTQ+ community members. Initial interviews then snowballed into additional ones, leading to a total of 20 interviews. Zoom interviews lasted 30 minutes to 2 hours and were collected over a 6 month time period in 2023. All interviews were transcribed verbatim. I used Nvivo software to conduct thematic coding and by interviewing both religious and non-religious community members, I am able to examine the process of "coming out as religious", boundary work, and the content of symbolic boundaries around these identities from both perspectives.