Bright, Catholic, and gay by Danton Remoto | Open Library

Contents:

• WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
• BRIGHT, CATHOLIC, AND GAY
• BRIGHT, CATHOLIC -- AND GAY
• BRIGHT, CATHOLIC AND GAY PDF DOWNLOAD

WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?

More than 10 years ago, Joseph Prever found himself surg the ter for anythg that might help him: he was gay, Catholic, and nfed.

Rourc were srce for a man stgglg wh homosexualy and tryg to rema fahful to the Church's teachg.

BRIGHT, CATHOLIC, AND GAY

Google the words "gay Catholic" and one of the top s to appear will be Prever's own blog, a blog wh the tagle: "Catholic, Gay, and Feelg Fe.

What follows is an eded versn of a nversatn about everythg om homosexualy and Batman to poetry and football. The blog is about what 's like to be a gay Catholic – a gay Catholic who is of urse, celibate – and I say 'of urse' bee that seems to me like the only optn if you're gog to be both gay and Catholic.

My iends and I joke that there's a gay Catholic renaissance on, or actually a gay Christian renaissance on, and we're proud to be at the foreont of – or at least we tell ourselv that we're at the foreont.

BRIGHT, CATHOLIC -- AND GAY

It was hard the sense that I'd actually always said that people shouldn't be public about beg gay, bee was not anybody's bs and I felt that would lend legimacy to this ia that beg gay is a sort of a sgle way to intify yourself: I actually still sort of hold that posn – kd of. It's hard to scribe: I don't thk that beg gay is as sential of a way to intify yourself as say, beg male is, or beg Catholic, or beg human.

When people began to associate you wh this gay guy who wr a blog?

Your blog hear is, 'Catholic, Gay, and Feelg Fe, ' and you've been g the word 'gay' throughout our nversatn so far. ' I ed to joke that the only reason I ed the word 'gay' was so that I would tend to show up more on Google, which is only partially a joke, bee you know if you're gog to e the tools of technology to evangelize, then you have to be savvy about what Google is gog to fd and what isn't.

BRIGHT, CATHOLIC AND GAY PDF DOWNLOAD

But I gus the shift maly happened as I began to approach beg more public about , bee as I beme more public I also me to ntact more openly wh people who intified as gay or who stggled wh same-sex attractn, or whatever. And what I found was that a lot of them had a lot of rentment towards people who sisted on not g the word gay.

And fact, I rarely feel strongly about whether I should e the word gay or not, but the one time I do feel strongly about is when somebody starts upbraidg me for . It's the sort of thg where people feel, and I thk rightly, that they have been nstraed to keep silent for most of their liv – and a lot of people have, whether 's nstraed by actual explic homophobia among the people that they love and/or are related to, or whether 's jt sort of a general culture unrstandg that you don't talk about this sort of thg.