LGBT Visn for Actn: Promotg & Supportg the Incln of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Individuals | Strategy and Policy | U.S. Agency for Internatnal Development

Contents:

• LGBT VISN FOR ACTN: PROMOTG & SUPPORTG THE INCLN OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR INDIVIDUALS
• THE PASSN OF CHRIST: A GAY VISN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• REVIEW: “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST: A GAY VISN” BY KTREDGE CHERRY & DOUGLAS BLANCHARD
• BLACK J, LATX J, FEMALE CHRIST AND OTHER LIBERATG VISNS JO THE GAY PASSN OF CHRIST
• A FAR-RIGHT RSIAN MP IS HOSTG A GRIM ‘GUS WHO IS GAY’ TV SHOW
• REVIEW: “THE PASSN OF CHRIST: A GAY VISN” BY KTREDGE CHERRY & DOUGLAS BLANCHARD
• WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

LGBT VISN FOR ACTN: PROMOTG & SUPPORTG THE INCLN OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR INDIVIDUALS

Please go to the Fancial Assistance page on the Gay Spir Visns webse for more rmatn about fancial assistance (scholarships) and for a lk to the GSV fancial assistance applitn form. I am very exced to be the nvener for the Gay Spir Visns 2023 Sprg Retreat and look forward to sharg our experienc of timacy and vulnerabily as we explore the var thrholds we will enunter while movg om vulnerabily to eper timacy — wh ourselv, wh each other, and wh the Dive.

The missn of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Rource Center (LGBTQIA Rource Center) is to provi an open, safe, clive space and muny that is mted to a ntued procs of unrstandg and challengg all forms of opprsn primarily focg on unrreprented orientatns and exprsns of one’s sex, genr and sexualy.

Amerin gay liberatn activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearg headband, and an unintified woman facepat, on 7th Avenue South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the send annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberatn Day), later known as Gay Pri, New York, New York, June 21, 1971.

THE PASSN OF CHRIST: A GAY VISN

20th December 1989: Portra of Amerin thor, AIDS mpaigner and gay rights activist Larry Kramer, founr of ACT‑UP and the Gay Men's Health Crisis group, posg ont of a book shelf his home, New York Cy. Whimsil haggraphi e lovg irreverence to prent the sated nts their many rnatns, cludg Sat Patience of the Mundane Microaggrsns, Sat Vaigrette of the Tossed Asi and Sat Bhagayya of the Pagan but Vegan. An evangelil LGBTQ activist tells how she moved om ex-gay self-nial the name of fah to marryg a woman at the Washgton Natnal Cathedral and helpg shut down Exod Internatnal, the largt ex-gay anizatn.

It tells the te story of Chomiak’s teenage and young-adult years: fdg love, wrtlg wh fay nflicts, and tryg to bee ex-gay before reachg wholens and a happy LGBTQ-Christian endg.

Reimagg J as a ntemporary gay man, the imag shock wh their ep faiary and emotnal dissince forcg to rethk graed ias about goodns, sufferg, fear, loathg and transcennce. *“The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn giv new meang to Christ’s Passn, and also new feelg—feelgs that nnect the story of Christ’s missn, sufferg, and new life to our own, not jt as LGBT people, but for all thought ‘queer’ by ‘the powers that be. LGBT Facebook ers, such as photographer Michael Stok, have repeatedly plaed of their photos and other work beg banned whout explanatn, wh the most visible s ually wng on book The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn clus Blanchard's patgs and text by Ktredge Cherry of You n also learn more about the thor and the pater there as well as fd rmatn on purchasg prts and other products.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

That said, the vast majory of viss rema trouble-ee, even for visors who equent the cy’s ls-than-secret gay bar and club bt hotels MoswThe historic exterr of the Hotel Metropol, facg the ternatnally-celebrated Bolshoi Theatre and close to many of the other ma thgs to do Mosw, is nothg pared to s sumptuo terrs. Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn.

For safety, gay upl should not brg attentn to their relatnship public, for example, by holdg hands, even tourist areas, hotels or aware that hookg up wh guys via datg apps has risks.

Tverskoy is great for sightseeg, the theatr and gay latt hotel als Mosw are listed on the Gay Mosw Hotels to See & DoRed Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) - the heart of Mosw and the cy’s most famo tourist Kreml (Moskovsky Kreml) - a huge se wh The Diamond llectn the Armoury and several amazg church. This year Q Spir is ntug s annual tradn of prentg all 24 patgs “The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn” by Douglas Blanchard om Palm Sunday (April 2, 2023) through Easter (April 9, 2023). Recent bat among nservative Anglins and Prbyterians over whether someone n claim a “gay inty” are only the latt round of siar disput that have echoed church rridors for years.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct.

In the Uned Stat, as the 1969 Stonewall rts New York announced the birth of the gay rights movement, orthodox Prottants were already askg what posive visn Scripture giv for people who are gay. In a statement, the lears clared, “We repent of the cripplg ‘homophobia’ … which has loured the attus toward homosexual people of all too many of , and ll our fellow Christians to siar repentance.

REVIEW: “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST: A GAY VISN” BY KTREDGE CHERRY & DOUGLAS BLANCHARD

Schaeffer foraw signifint cultural chang when, 1978, an Orthodox Prbyterian Church ngregatn San Francis found self sued for releasg a gay employee who had vlated the church’s of nduct. Church historian Richard Lovelace’s 1978 book Homosexualy and the Church garnered hearty endorsements om evangelil lumari Ken Kantzer (a former CT edor), Elisabeth Ellt, Chuck Colson, Harold Ockenga, and Carl F. First, would require profsg Christians who are gay to have the urage both to avow [acknowledge] their orientatn openly and to obey the Bible’s clear junctn to turn away om the active homosexual life-style.

BLACK J, LATX J, FEMALE CHRIST AND OTHER LIBERATG VISNS JO THE GAY PASSN OF CHRIST

The church’s sponsorship of openly avowed but repentant homosexuals learship posns would be a profound wns to the world ncerng the power of the Gospel to ee the church om homophobia and the homosexual om guilt and bondage. Yet this was the Christian visn of Lovelace and Henry, Ockenga and Ellt, Kantzer and Colson, Lewis and Graham, Schaeffer and Stott, and a young gay evangelil Anglin who felt too aaid to e his own name, even though he was still a virg.

As I watch evangelil church and nomatns fumble their way through discsns of sexual orientatn and inty, often enforcg the language and tegori of a failed ex-gay movement, we’re missg the real battle: The surroundg culture has nvced the world that Christians hate gay people. They are already send-gusg their fah bee they hear all around them that Christians hate gay people, and they n’t pot to anyone their ngregatn who is gay, is fahful, and is loved and accepted as such.

Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori.

A FAR-RIGHT RSIAN MP IS HOSTG A GRIM ‘GUS WHO IS GAY’ TV SHOW

The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns.

REVIEW: “THE PASSN OF CHRIST: A GAY VISN” BY KTREDGE CHERRY & DOUGLAS BLANCHARD

The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. In a 2007 open letter to the Rsian people, he asserted that “homosexualy is a personaly disorr that volv var, often dangero sexual addictns and aggrsive, anti-social impuls.

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews.

In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals. Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn.

WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.

A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi.

AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals. The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party. The AFTAH se repeats bog claims like the ia that a proposed bill California would “promote cross-drsg, sex-change operatns, bisexualy and homosexualy” to krgartners and other children.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. ” More recently, while hostg Amerin Visn’s “The Gary DeMar Show” December 2009, Joel McDurmon, the group’s rearch director, agreed that the Bible do ll for killg homosexuals. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.

Wh regard to that last, said: “Homosexuals have turned away om humbly worshippg the te and livg God and his transcennt moral orr orr to make an idol out of their sexual perversn and chaos. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.

In 2001, she hired proment anti-gay propagandists Robert Knight (now wh Coral Ridge Mistri; see below) and Peter LaBarbera (now wh Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above) to lnch CWA’s Culture and Fay Instute.