Yv Côté overme a difficult past to help breathe new life to a 165-year-old church the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village. Read his story as part of the CBC/Conrdia seri.
Contents:
- SHARG THE GOSPEL THE GAY VILLAGE
- LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
SHARG THE GOSPEL THE GAY VILLAGE
* the church gay village *
My iend John Bell pastors New Cy Baptist Church right the heart of Toronto and has an active evangelistic mistry wh Toronto’s gay village. It is Gay Pri week here Toronto and Tim has asked me to wre a gut post tailg my evangelistic efforts Toronto’s LGBT-oriented muny [LGBT stands for Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr).
LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’
I had never been to a gay ffee shop before but I thought (rrectly) that gay men would want a plete stranger to s wh them and ch-chat, so that’s what I cid to do.
Toronto’s gay village is jt a ten mute walk om where I live. I found out later that this is the gay ffee shop all of the Greater Toronto Area. The gay muny Toronto is very close-kn.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
The men have accepted me as their iend and have troduced me to other gay men, although they know I’m a straight, born aga nservative Christian who do not ndone their liftyle.
I have talked to que a number of gay men now–almost all of them whe and middle aged. When I first meet someone at the ffee shop and they ask me what I do (which is a natural “” to troducg the gospel) they assume that I mt be a liberal gay Baptist mister, bee otherwise what would I be dog their ffee shop?