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Contents:

• TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?
• FROM “GAY KNIGHTS” TO CELEBRATN ON THE CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF PRI INDIANAPOLIS
• GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
• THE GAY KNIGHT
• GAY KNIGHTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• KNIGHTS OF THE GAY ROUND TABLE
• GAY KNIGHTS AND DAMNED BISHOPS
• KNIGHTS COLLEGE, A GAY FURRY VISUAL NOVEL, IS OUT NOW
• TAG: GAY KNIGHTS
• GAY KNIGHTS

TEMPLARS AND SODOMY – WERE THE KNIGHTS REALLY GAY?

I have been asked on several ocsns whether the Knights Templar were gay. One er got que irate when I sisted you uldn’t classify the Templars as a medieval LGBT anisatn – though that’s not to say some of the knights weren’t gay.

Homosexual love is as old as humany but LGBT inty as we unrstand today is que morn. So – why this associatn between the Knights Templar and homosexualy?

So what were the accatns levelled agast the Templars that gave rise to the ia many were gay? Ithier of Rochefort unr torture admted to “obscene” kiss and “the cement to homosexualy”.

FROM “GAY KNIGHTS” TO CELEBRATN ON THE CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF PRI INDIANAPOLIS

Ralph of Granville had homosexualy “enjoed upon him” via the ual kiss. When alg wh other heri, the church and s quisn often saw homosexualy as a symptom of hery.

Addg homosexualy to the mix was a given.

Templars, homosexualy and s.

GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS

If you were gay the Middle Ag, then jog a brotherhood of some scriptn was a good way to avoid that faiar and annoyg qutn at fay gathergs:. In 1976, the first “Gay Pri Week” was held Indianapolis, hosted by the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) and the Gay Peopl Unn. Rather than celebrate publicly, atten were ved to attend a piic at Sugar Creek Park, donate blood at MCC, participate a “Youth Kamp Dis, ” and attend workshops entled “Do I Tell My Parents?, ” “Christian and Gay, ” “Liftyl the ‘70s, ” and “Gays and Government.

Jam Hill said the purpose of the week was “to make society aware of our prence and as a self-affirmg thg for gay people as well—affirmg they have the right to be.

Program, 4th Annual Gay Pri Week Bnch, June 24, 1984, Jefey L. Mayor Bill Hudnut reluctantly issued a letter that was read at one of the gathergs, clarg a mment to “an absence of anti-gay bias all police matters. ” Acrdg to a June 1985 The Works article, this marked “the first time any Mayor of Indianapolis has ma any posive public pronouncement on gays Indianapolis.

THE GAY KNIGHT

will go down the gay history of Indiana as the first time gays this state have exercised their Constutnal right to eedom of public assembly.

Gays and lbians exercised this Constutnal right no ls a place than the Monument Circle area of Indianapolis full view of many Indianapolis cizens who me to see what gays had to say. After the 1984 gathergs, which some dubbed “Gay Knights on the Circle, ” Pri Week celebratns remaed relatively private until 1990. ’s Ruth Peters, the New Works News noted that the June event would “provi an opportuny for gays and lbians to crease their polil and muny awarens and visibily.

GAY KNIGHTS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

If we make exc for not gog, we manift the ternalized homophobia that will ntue to keep on the ge, where society need not even regnize that we exist.

Your stereotyp about gays and lbians are right. Those who turned out for the unprecented event enjoyed entertament like drag shows, learned about gay rights legislatn, listened to AIDS activists, and teracted wh those manng booths for the Indiana Crossdrser Society (IXE), Indiana Youth Group, Damien Center, Act-Up Indy, Marn County Health Department Condom Contt, and Indiana Pro-Choice Actn League. I was very proud to be a part of the lbian and gay muny as drew together to support one goal – the attament of a safe environment for all persons regardls of their sexual orientatn, race, creed, or genr.

One wrer for the New Works News wrote July that the “Celebratn on the Circle” was only the begng, ntendg that “The Gay Civil Rights movement is at a cril pot s velopment. The 2014 legalizatn of gay marriage and the 2015 enactment of the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act exemplifi this dualy.

KNIGHTS OF THE GAY ROUND TABLE

“Gloria Frankel & The Seahorse: The South Bend LGBT Club’s Fight for Gay Rights”. “The Debate over ‘Decency:’ How Hoosiers Challenged Ana Bryant’s Anti-Gay Rights Csa”.

(shelved 1 time as gay-medieval-knights). Assumg, as we mt, that at least some of the men’s sexual longgs were fulfilled, the next qutn is the extent to which timate homosexual relatnships were tolerated. Wh the wispread crimalizatn of homosexual relatns startg the thirteenth century, the marriag of men church uld not last.

GAY KNIGHTS AND DAMNED BISHOPS

One of the thgs we like to discs is who we would ve to our imagary gay lunch. But serly, our imagary gay lunch started wh Tim Gunn. One nversatnal thg led to another and we had a whole bunch of gay men jog at our imagary meal.

So I have cid to share wh you my Knights of the Gay Round Table:.

KNIGHTS COLLEGE, A GAY FURRY VISUAL NOVEL, IS OUT NOW

It would seem the time has e the Church to root out one of the most glarg problems that no one thory seemgly wants to al wh: the whole issue of homosexualy — meang not jt the attractn, which is not sful self, but the total pulatn to the ant homosexual agenda by those the Church.

One: It n mean beg actively gay like many clerics are. Two: It n mean beg gay while not practicg yourself, but still beg sympathetic to the evil, and so ignorg when occurs among fellow clergy. Three: It n mean not beg gay yourself at all, but still beg sympathetic to iends or fay who are and so ignorg .

Four: It n mean not beg gay yourself at all, but not wantg to kill your cleril reer, and so you choose to keep your mouth shut and not make gay enemi the Church. Five: And n mean not beg gay yourself, and not really rg about the issue bee you are different and lewarm and don’t really re about much at all.

TAG: GAY KNIGHTS

Five different largely unrelated ways you n ntribute to the gay malaise of the current crisis of the Church — and matters ltle which tegory a man falls to, bee the rult for the Body of Christ is the same: vastatn for the flock.

GAY KNIGHTS

One of those groups is the Knights of Columb and their nstant flirtg wh and skirtg around this issue of eher direct homosexualy wh their ranks, or support for , eher directly or by negligence. Take, for example, the recent se of a grand marshal of a lol uncil who was openly gay, civilly married to his homosexual partner — and everyone knew died sudnly, God have mercy on his soul, and the obuary even laid all out, for the whole world to see. He met his homosexual partner 2001 Chigo, moved wh him to Province, Rho Island 2004, and then me to the Catholic Church 2012 unr stctn om a prit the dce of Province.

Phek uldn’t have been very quiet about , bee the next year, he and his homosexual sex partner moved to the Bay Area of California and got civilly married. So the evable qutn: What has been rpted the Knights of Columb that a lol uncil uld feel perfectly at home by not only admtg an open homosexual to their ranks, but a "married" homosexual, and then elect him to the posn as their lear? If the se of the openly gay, civilly married, livg a public life a state of opposn to the Church Knights of Columb Grand Marshal David Phek is any example, the knights have every reason to be fed up.

Once aga, this go on bee weak, wardly, feme, homosexual or homosexual-iendly bishops have created the environment where n go on. The first beg a gay, furry visual novel lled Knights College – a game where every choice you make is prented as a rd.