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PREVIOUS REPORT: 'I'll never get my baby back': Fay of woman killed crash on North Freeway angry over lossHoton police said Sarah Gay was toxited when she drove northbound the southbound lan of the I-45 North Freeway near the Whe Oak ex and h two rs. In a seri of strips June 1994, recently outed gay character Mark Slackmeyer attempts to pick up a fundamentalist Christian married man, and tells him that the church had, for a lennium, performed gay-marriage ceremoni. In barely 20 years at Yale, Boswell’s work as a historian managed to set the t among the pigeons to stupendo effect, through years of meticulo scholarship that, if rrect, unrmed the very foundatn of much morn homophobia.

In the troductn to his 1980 Amerin Book Award-wng Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy: Gay People Wtern Europe om the Begng of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, he observed that gay people were “still the objects of severe proscriptive legislatn, wispread public hostily, and var civil rtrats, all wh ostensibly relig jtifitn. The book argued that the Roman Catholic Church had not always been as hostile to gay people, and ed, until the 12th century, had thought homosexualy no more troublg than, say, hypocrisy—or even celebrated love between men.

But other crics felt that, spe s attentn to tail, s central this—that Christiany and homosexualy had not always been such uneasy bedfellows—was not only false, but a failed attempt by Boswell, gay and Catholic, to square two aspects of his inty they felt uld not be renciled. ” Elsewhere, however, he claims to have “ntamated the sprg of iendship wh the dirt of lt and darkened s brightns wh the blackns of sire”—yet this is a nigratn not specifilly of homosexual lt and sire, but of sexualy more generally. ” In this early Christian cy, Chrysostom found homosexualy to be so very mon and accepted that “there is some danger that womankd will bee unnecsary wh the future, wh young men stead fulfillg all the needs women ed to.