Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Jtice |

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER JTICE
• 11 CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATNS WH MOST LIBERAL STANCE ON GAY, LBIAN COMMUNY

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER JTICE

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Jtice. Our ngregatns engage tentnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) welg mistry.

In 1946, Whe wr, a prit at one of Atlanta’s Catholic church nied the sacrament to people who admted they were homosexual. In turn, the rejected parishners created what member Helen Pappas lled “the world’s first gay-oriented church.

11 CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATNS WH MOST LIBERAL STANCE ON GAY, LBIAN COMMUNY

” A small group—“old and young; men and women; gay and non-gay, ” acrdg to Pappas—gathered at an altar ma om two cktail tabl. As the “homophile movement” alced the 1950s, Whe wr, church and other new, or newly welg, relig stutns played an important role.

LGBTQ-iendly church operated mostly unr the radar until 1968, when a gay former Pentestal mister named Troy Perry found the Metropolan Communy Church, “a Christian church for all people wh an outreach to the gay muny. Nidorf, an Augtian prit, formed the gay fellowship group Digny southern California. Its meetgs clud group therapy, discsn of theologil texts on homosexualy, and Holy Mass.

Whe wr that the media soon picked up on the “gay church” movement, wh varyg gre of sympathy.