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Contents:

• CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRIT WHO BROUGHT VIGILANTE JTICE TO SAN FRANCIS’S STREETS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT

Confsns of a Gay Prit: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abe, and Sndal the Catholic Semary on JSTOR.

In Confsns of a Gay Prit, Tom Rastrelli turns the hhed ternal workgs of Catholic prithood si out.

Wh the knowledge that the Catholic Church is diverse when sexual orientatn, but still ni the rights and godls of homosexual prits and people, the book clus strikg illtratns of dysfunctnal and hypocril church practic. They are htled past gay Catholic protters monstratg agast the church’s heterosupremacy and to a banquet, where, though searchg for alli, they are put on display for old and powerful lears to leer at, before beg rted out past the protters aga. Confsns of a Gay Prit is a heartfelt, urageo memoir about celty and salvatn, wh a transparent nsiratn of the ner polics of the Catholic Church.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns. He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church? I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage.

We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri. And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle. In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children.

THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRIT WHO BROUGHT VIGILANTE JTICE TO SAN FRANCIS’S STREETS

And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay.

Gay prits: Breakg the silence. He is one of very few openly gay prits. Father Green "me out" to his ngregatn this Milwkee suburb about three years ago, at age 51, when he announced, "I am a gay prit, and a celibate prit.

" This moment me after a lifetime of stggle, servg a church that teach that "actg on" homosexual feelgs is a s. Father Greg Green is one of a very few openly gay prits Ameri.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

He found folks his ngregatn were overwhelmgly asked Carol Webber, "Do matter to you that the prit here is gay? " Later, they say havg an openly-gay prit helped. ""It says that 's not ol to be gay if you're a prit.

And if you are gay and a prit both at the same time, you've gotta hi one or the other. While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit. "Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

We have high suici rat among LGBT youth, and we also have plac the world where gay people n be arrted and executed for beg gay. "He lls Pope Francis (the first pope to e the word "gay" publicly) the most pro-LGBTQ pope ever, though acknowledgg that's "not a high bar.

" "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said. "How many gay prits do you thk there are? ""It is a large, silent muny, a vast silent majory, " said Frédéric Martel, a French thor who spent four years rearchg his book, "In the Closet of the Vatin, " about the gay unrworld there.

He said he terviewed hundreds of prits, even rdals: "It's 'Fifty Shas of Gay. ' I mean, a lot of different kd of gay. He suggts the largt group of men the Vatin may be gay, but do not practice, and n actually be the most homophobic – and terviews disvered a real range of sexual inti.