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Contents:
- 'WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER': A MARIME UNN'S HIDN HISTORY OF GAY-STRAIGHT AND INTERRACIAL SOLIDARY
- GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA
- DEAR GAY ANGLINS LETTER
'WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER': A MARIME UNN'S HIDN HISTORY OF GAY-STRAIGHT AND INTERRACIAL SOLIDARY
Des before the morn LGBTQ+ movement, a small but ant unn of marime workers on the Wt Coast wh openly gay members and lears ed a slogan lkg discrimatn agast gay men, racial discrimatn, and red-bag. For the better part of two s, the Mare Cooks and Stewards Unn fought discrimatn on the ships where s members worked and * gay anglican marines *
Des before the morn LGBTQ+ movement, a small but ant unn of marime workers on the Wt Coast wh openly gay members and lears ed a slogan lkg discrimatn agast gay men, racial discrimatn, and red-bag. And although a high percentage of the oks and stewards were “queens, ” as gay men preferred to ll themselv at the time, the unn rarely if ever stood up for them when they were tnted—or “queen-baed”—by straight workers.
GAY ANGLINS THE ACNA
Bébé relat, “The sults keep g, but the gay stewards are gettg bolr bee they know their unn is watchg their backs. ” Stephen “Mickey” Blair, a whe, gay MCS member told Bébé, “Mare Cooks and Stewards took the digny that was each of and built up, so you uld get up the morng and say to yourself ‘I n make through this day. Many of the new members were gay men who want to serve their untry the fight agast fascism but had been kicked out of the ary for their sexual orientatn.
Other unns ed homophobia and racism, as well as red-bag, to try to stroy the MCS. “The most important thg was not that we had gays.
DEAR GAY ANGLINS LETTER
This article draws heavily on My Dire for History: Essays Gay, Communy, and Labor History, a posthumo llectn of Bébé’s says published 2011. The recent upheaval wh the Anglin Church of North Ameri (ACNA) about “gay Anglins” stems om ignorg this le. This, seems to me, is what’s happeng the “gay Anglin” bacle.
The Pastoral Statement sgl out, therefore, the language of “gay Christians” (and also “same-sex attracted Christians”) as a “subtle shift om intifitn Christ by modifyg our Christian inty wh personal orientatns and attractn. It begs, “Dear Gay Anglins, ” flagrantly floutg the heart of the Pastoral Statement.