1969: Digny, the first group for LGBTQ Catholics, is found. The Stonewall Rts, the begng of the gay rights movement, follow a police raid.
Contents:
- GAY COUPLE PREACH TO CHIGO CATHOLIC PARISH ON FATHER’S DAY
- CHIGO: CATHOLIC LGBT MISTRY LEAR TO ‘MARRY’ GAY PARTNER
GAY COUPLE PREACH TO CHIGO CATHOLIC PARISH ON FATHER’S DAY
The Archdcan Gay and Lbian Outreach of Chigo, AGLOChigo, is a lay anizatn of the Roman Catholic Church. Jo for Mass every Sunday at 7 pm. * lgbt catholic church chicago *
The Archdcan Gay and Lbian Outreach of Chigo, AGLOChigo, is a supra-parochial anizatn begun June 1988 to extend the Church’s pastoral outreach to gay and lbian Catholics throughout the Archdce. We, the members of the Archdcan Gay and Lbian Outreach, as people of God, create a sense of muny for those who wish to rencile their sexual orientatn wh their fah; provi an acceptg and affirmg atmosphere which to worship the Catholic tradn; provi opportuni for tegratn of personal experience through spirual growth; share our distctive gifts wh each other and the Church at large, and wns our Catholic fah to the gay and lbian muny. AGLO — the Archdcan Gay and Lbian Outreach of Chigo mistry — formed 1988.
I uld jo another … sect of Christiany that is more like ‘rah, rah, rabows and unirns, go gay, ’ but that’s not who I am and that’s not why I have the fah that I have, ” Zieman said. ”Affirmed isn’t the first mistry for queer Catholics 1988, Cardal Joseph Bernard tablished the Archdce Gay and Lbian Outreach.
CHIGO: CATHOLIC LGBT MISTRY LEAR TO ‘MARRY’ GAY PARTNER
Bernard was a pragmatic centrist who found a middle ground wh the Church hierarchy on gay issu, said Michael O’Loughl, thor of “Hidn Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stori of Compassn the Face of Fear.
Bernard was steadfast his support for Chigo’s gay muny, particularly durg the AIDS crisis, said Joe Vek, director of muny outreach at Archdce Gay and Lbian the archbishop’s relatnship wh queer people was more plex. In 1986, he opposed a proposed ordance Chigo outlawg discrimatn agast gay people. Rick Garcia, then executive director of the Catholic Advote for Lbian and Gay Rights, wrote a 1987 Tribune op-ed that the archdce failed to provi meangful outreach to those sufferg.
Clement’s and some other parish around the untry was they were willg to engage mistry wh a muny that was so margalized and the topic of homosexualy was so taboo the church, ” he said.