The Rev. Bryan Massgale is a Black, openly gay Catholic prit. His goal: nvert the hearts of the fahful to regnize racism the church and wele L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics.
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- A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH
- BLACK CHURCH RUMOR SEXUAL VLENCE AND BLACK (GAY) GOSPEL’S REVEREND JAM CLEVELAND
- INSI THIS LOL PRIT’S DECISN TO COME OUT AS GAY
A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH
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BLACK CHURCH RUMOR SEXUAL VLENCE AND BLACK (GAY) GOSPEL’S REVEREND JAM CLEVELAND
”The Vatin holds that gay and lbian people should be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is “trsilly disorred” and his hoy on a recent Sunday, Father Massgale—who beme public about beg gay 2019—envisned a world “where the digny of every person is rpected and protected, where everyone is loved.
“I realized that no matter what the church said, God loved me and accepted me as a Black gay man. ”At Fordham, a Ju universy, Father Massgale teach a class on homosexualy and Christian ethics, g biblil texts to challenge church teachg on same-sex relatns.
INSI THIS LOL PRIT’S DECISN TO COME OUT AS GAY
“I realized that no matter what the church said, God loved me and accepted me as a Black gay man, ” he ordatn 1983 me the early years of the HIV/AIDS epimic that disproportnately affected gay men and Black Amerins. Among his first funerals as a prit was that of a gay man whose fay wanted no mentn of his sexualy or the disease. “Yet they uldn’t bee that stigma existed great measure bee of how many misters were speakg about homosexualy and AIDS as beg a punishment for s.
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