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They’ve been rejected and not able to participate or attend regular church servic bee of their inty, ” said Moore, who is gay and the former pastor at Christ Chapel of Long Beach, another LGBT iendly church Long Beach.
“There’s a lot of prsn the LGBT muny bee we hear so much of the church teachg about God rejectg them and that God hat gays, ” Moore said. Home to the Queen Mary, Aquarium of the Pacific, and hostg of the Grand Prix, mms, many ftivals and cultural events like the The Long Beach Lbian and Gay Pri Para and Ftival (The 3rd largt the US! Newman poetry to tell the story of the beatg ath of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old homosexual llege stunt at the Universy of Wyomg October of 1998.
Comunidad is the Los Angel Dce’s Catholic Mistry wh Lbian and Gay Persons (CMLGP). First hand stori revis a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout Ameri and homosexualy was seen as a mental illns.
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When police raid Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did somethg they had not done before - they fought back. The llective anger announced the gay rights movement had arrived.
Anyone and Everyone picts fai nnected by havg a son or dghter who is gay. Experience the passnate ralli and fiant march of the new gay rights movement as swept through Southern California.
October 6, 1998 is a date which still ronat wh the Gay muny. It was the date that Matthew Shepard, a gay, twenty-one-year llege stunt was savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence and left to die. A photo of the altar at Blsed Sacrament Church Hollywood taken a few years ago, jt prr the start of the mass celebratg the 25th anniversary of the Los Angel Archdce’s Mistry wh Lbian and Gay Catholics (now lled Catholic Mistry wh Lbian and Gay Persons)—which Sat Matthew’s was a foundg member of back 1986.