| Sumario: | Background: Comprehensive sexual health education is a human right routinely denied to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Although queerness and religion are critical parts of comprehensive sexual health education, they are rarely addressed in the literature. Methods: Fifteen college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a programme that includes a sexual health education course participated in semi‐structured interviews about the class. Responses related to attitudes about religion, gender identity and sexual orientation were thematically analysed. Results: Participants expressed varied views about religion and queerness influenced by factors including the desexualisation stereotype (the widespread idea that disabled people should not be sexually active), access to formal and informal sexual health education and restrictive religious teachings. Conclusions: The diversity in perspectives shown here is an important consideration for the development of sexual health education programmes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in educational and community‐based settings. Summary: College students with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a variety of views about how religion and LGBTQ+ identity are related to sexuality.In this study, participants explained how the sexual health education they had gotten before from school and outside sources affected their thoughts about religion, LGBTQ+ identity and sexuality.This study adds to our knowledge about how to deliver sexual health education to young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and will help make sexual health education classes better in the future by understanding the diverse beliefs that students have. This, in turn, makes the classroom a place where everyone feels free to discuss their ideas.
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