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Contents:
- J AT THE GAY BAR
- J AT THE GAY BAR
- HOW J WOULD ACT A GAY BAR?
- THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
- HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
J AT THE GAY BAR
So God created man His own image; the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. —Genis 1:27 J at the Gay BarBy Jay Hulme He’s here the midst of –right at the centre of the dance floor,rob hched up to His kneto make easy to sp. At… * jesus in the gay bar poem *
After ‘The Backwater Sermons’ me out, this poem om , ‘J at the Gay Bar’, went a b viral, so I thought I’d share some of the basic theology behd poem que obvly riffs off of the below sectn of Mark 5, drawg a parallel between the unnamed woman the passage, and queer people - more particularly, the "boy" the poem, a young LGBT man stgglg wh his queerns, and, is suggted, stgglg wh how that rencil wh his fah. [POEM] J at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme.
J at the Gay BarBy Jay Hulme. No matter what others tell you that you should be, remember, you are who you are bee God created you that way, whether that is gay or straight, cisgenr or transgenr, male or female, or any of the lors of the rabow, God created you that way.
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J AT THE GAY BAR
J at the Gay Bar (by Jay Hulme)He’s here the midst of –right at the centre of the dance floor, rob hched up to His kneto make easy to some pot the evenga boy will touch the hem of His robeand beg to be healed, beg to beanythg other than this’And He will reach His arm out, sweat-damp, weary om ’ll cup this boy’s face His handand say, my betiful childthere is nothg this heart of yoursthat ever needs to be healed.
HOW J WOULD ACT A GAY BAR?
Image J on the dance floor a gay bar, as this poem scrib.
I love the poignant way that the poet Jay Hulme brg out this theme J at the Gay Bar (om his poetry llectn The Backwater Sermons). We know that if we have been hurt, meaned or exclud bee we are gay, trans, bee of disabily, race, social class, mental health, tn, fanc, nrodiversy or awkward personali… We stand wh J.
THE 17-YEAR-OLD & THE GAY BAR
I’m paraphrasg: “As an ally, I want the Gay Village to glow so brightly wh rabows that n be seen om space.
As I prayed about this I started to wonr, what if the Gay Village beme our place to be rooted? Everyone I spoke to got exced about the ia of Inclive Gatherg beg rooted the Gay Village, but we had no ia how would practilly happen.
After a particularly enuragg chat wh a lear Southsi, I emailed The Loft – a brilliant bar and rtrant wh meetg rooms the heart of the Gay Village – to see if we uld perhaps e one of their rooms to host a few nversatns about our next steps.
HOW THE IMAGE OF J AT A GAY BAR HELPED ATRALIAN BAND CUB SPORT TELL THEIR STORY
It’s important to say, I thk, that jt bee we are lotg ourselv the Gay Village, this do not mean that our church is only for LGBTQIA+ people.