VATICAN CITY—In a radil break om centuri of strict church doctre, the Pope approved a measure yterday that would allow gay men and boys to be provisnally accepted to the Catholic Church.
Contents:
- WHAT THE MALE-ONLY WORLD OF ALTAR BOYS MEANT TO THIS FORMER GAY MAN
- WHAT BEG AN ALTAR BOY – ONCE MEANT TO A FORMER GAY MAN
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- WHAT TO WATCH: THEO GERMAE STRIK BACK, THE WO OF POLY LOVE, AND GAY ALTAR BOYS
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- CATHOLIC CHURCH ALLOWS GAYS TO SERVE AS ALTAR BOYS
WHAT THE MALE-ONLY WORLD OF ALTAR BOYS MEANT TO THIS FORMER GAY MAN
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Over a later, when I got flhed out of “gay, ” I hobbled back to the Church, strangely enough, first headg to the same parish that I once served as an altar boy.
But, a way, I wasn’t surprised, bee jt the day prr I had spoken to the same prit, and, spe my blasted and bised body, he remend that I return to my old “gay” life. Although, I am sure he thought he was beg credibly charable and sympathetic, I saw as the ultimate rejectn: that, on this pla, there was no other place for me, except “gay. What beg an altar boy – once meant to a former gay man | Joseph Sciambra.
WHAT BEG AN ALTAR BOY – ONCE MEANT TO A FORMER GAY MAN
What beg an altar boy – once meant to a former gay man.
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After graduatn, I lerally ran to San Francis’s gay Castro District, knowg that there, I would fd the acceptg all-male world of which I had never felt I belonged.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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WHAT TO WATCH: THEO GERMAE STRIK BACK, THE WO OF POLY LOVE, AND GAY ALTAR BOYS
There was almost nothg I did not do as a gay man. As a necsary sign of cln and support, I did not require the display of a rabow flag at a special “gay” Mass.
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20 GAY GREEK GODS
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CATHOLIC CHURCH ALLOWS GAYS TO SERVE AS ALTAR BOYS
They s the world of homosocial silenc, nfirmed bachelors, and don’t ask don’t tell.
Anglo Catholic cleril celibacy created space for men who might now intify as asexual, as well as gay.