Buildg Bridg: Gay and Lbian Realy and the Catholic Church. By Robert Nugent and Jeanne Gramick. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third, 1992. xi + 218 pag. $9.95 (paper). - Volume 20 Issue 1
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- BUILDG BRIDG: GAY AND LBIAN REALY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. BY ROBERT NUGENT AND JEANNE GRAMICK. MYSTIC, CT: TWENTY-THIRD, 1992. XI + 218 PAG. $9.95 (PAPER).
- BUILDG BRIDG: A ROURCE AND TRAG GUI FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUTORS WORKG WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSSEXUAL AND TRANSGENRED FAI
BUILDG BRIDG: GAY AND LBIAN REALY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. BY ROBERT NUGENT AND JEANNE GRAMICK. MYSTIC, CT: TWENTY-THIRD, 1992. XI + 218 PAG. $9.95 (PAPER).
Three ternatnal LGBTI activists share their extraordary stori. At Amsterdam Pri we celebrate the diversy and eedom of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people. Unfortunately, this eedom is not yet assured for everyone. * building bridges gay *
News em | 03-08-2021 | 09:12At Amsterdam Pri we celebrate the diversy and eedom of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people. ‘In some parts of Indonia homosexualy and intifiyg as transgenr are crimal offenc, ’ Li says. ‘The murrs of transgenr people, the persecutn of lbian, non-bary and gay people, and the nstant discrimatn, which I experience myself too, have all been a wake-up ll for me.
‘I will never fet the public rally on IDAHOT (the Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) 2016: all the bright lours, the rabow flags beg waved, and the feelg that we were standg up together for our rights. Pulse was one of the cy’s bt-known gay clubs, and the 2016 shootg was the adlit mass shootg morn U. The Catechism of the Catholic Church refers to “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred.
The missn of The Center for LGBTQ and Genr Studi Relign (CLGS) is “to advance the well-beg of lbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgenr people and to transform fah muni and the wir society by takg a leadg role shapg a new public disurse on relign, genr inty and sexualy through tn, rearch, muny buildg and advocy. Greg Prce’s 2018 book “Gay Rights and the Mormon Church, ” which is fely worth a read, lv to the tails of the chang.
BUILDG BRIDG: A ROURCE AND TRAG GUI FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUTORS WORKG WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSSEXUAL AND TRANSGENRED FAI
In a nutshell, the 1970s the church preached that homosexualy was a terrible s, exmunited members for beg gay, enuraged electric shock therapy at BYU and told gay men that if they’d jt get married the temple to a righteo woman, they’d be cured. Today, beg gay is not enough to warrant exmunitn; ’s homosexual behavr that is punished. For church members who are gay, queer, trans, bisexual or otherwise sexually nonnformg, the movg target that is the anizatn’s stance toward LGBTQ people n be madng.
His youngt son me out as gay at 13, and although his fay was supportive he was sometim filled wh self-loathg bee of the homophobic msag he got at church.
“I was lookg down this tunnel, and I saw thoands of gay people lookg back at me and askg me for help, ” he said. ” The documentary Buildg a Bridge shows Ju Father Jam Mart’s journey as he striv to remd his fellow Catholics, gay and straight, of this fundamental teachg.