Contents:
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
- GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
Not one uttered the word “gay. “I really am gay, ” Father Green, now a prit near Milwkee, remembered tellg himself for the first time.
For years, church lears have driven gay ngregants away shame and sisted that “homosexual tennci” are “disorred.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
” And yet, thoands of the church’s prits are stori of gay prits are unspoken, veiled om the outsi world, known only to one another, if they are known at than about 10 prits the Uned Stat have dared to e out publicly.
GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
But gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Amerin Catholic clergy, acrdg to dozens of timat om gay prits themselv and rearchers. One prit Wisns said he assumed every prit was gay unls he knows for a fact he is not. A prit Florida put this way: “A third are gay, a third are straight and a third don’t know what the hell they are.
GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'
”Two dozen gay prits and semarians om 13 stat shared timate tails of their liv the Catholic closet wh The New York Tim over the past two months. A few had been exprsly forbidn to e out or even to speak about homosexualy.