Gay Gibson Cima is a profsor of English and the former director of the Human Rights Iniative at Geetown Universy. Her book Early Amerin Women Crics: Performance, Relign, Race (2006) illumat Ain, Ain Amerin, European, and European Amerin women’s...
Contents:
- GEETOWN DO NOT HAVE TO REGNIZE A GAY STUNT GROUP
- GAY, TIMOTHY
- MARTHA GAY, PH.D.
- GAY AT GEETOWN
- GAY RIGHTS COALN CASE COLLECTN
- GAY RIGHTS COALN V. GEETOWN UNIV.
- REARCHERS FD DIVERSE SUPPORTIVE PARTNERSHIPS AMONG OLR GAY MEN WH AND WHOUT HIV
GEETOWN DO NOT HAVE TO REGNIZE A GAY STUNT GROUP
The gay-rights movement is beg felt at many of the natn’s Catholic lleg and universi, perhaps nowhere as visibly as at Geetown, the untry’s olst Catholic universy. * georgetown university gay *
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GAY, TIMOTHY
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“Every month is a good month to be gay at Geetown, ” said Thomas Lloyd, print of the mp pri group. Ined, there’s a Genr Liberatn Week, Gay Pri Month, a popular drag ball lled Genrfunk and a Lavenr graduatn ceremony attend by the universy so long ago, relatns between the universy and s gay stunts were straed.
In 2007, they stormed the steps of Healy Hall, prottg what they saw as an aquate rponse to antigay cints. And a 2008 survey found that 61 percent of stunts thought homophobia was an issue. Further hong s current image as a gay-iendly mp, March Nate Tisa beme Geetown’s first openly gay stunt body print.
MARTHA GAY, PH.D.
Y., has lled on the universy to lead the church toward a new terpretatn of homosexualy. ”As the natnal gay rights movement touch down state legislatur, the Supreme Court and even the Boy Suts, is also beg felt at many of the natn’s 267 Roman Catholic lleg and universi, where stunts and admistrators are grapplg wh what means to be young, gay and Catholic 2013. ”The support for gay stunts has eliced nods of approval om many alumni, but has agated others.
“The Catechism of the Catholic Church” says to “rpect” homosexuals — an attu suggted by Pope Francis his remarks this week regardg gay prits. But nounc homosexual sex as “ntrary to the natural law”; homosexualy is th, some argue, not part of God’s plan. Tisa, his “irreprsible and well-traed gay agenda” and his attempts at “cleverly refg what Catholic means.
GAY AT GEETOWN
Olson, Geetown’s an of stunts, says he is nfint that providg gay stunts support, eedom of exprsn and a place to celebrate who they are do not nflict wh the universy’s Ju herage. The latter document urg admistrators to “enjoy stutnal tonomy” and foster amic bate but to nsistently uphold teachgs about homosexualy, abortn, fay planng and premaral sex. The seemgly ntradictory missns have ed tensn recent years, particularly as Catholic stutns seek to te and protect the health of their stunts, many of whom are sexually year, Ryan Fecte beme the first openly gay speaker of the General Assembly at the Catholic Universy of Ameri, which is n by the church.
Fecte spent much of his term urgg the admistratn to regnize the universy’s gay-alliance group. Ultimately, admistrators nied the requt, unterargug that a gay advocy group really wasn’t part of the Catholic missn.
Fecte is one of a growg band of stunt lears who are Catholic, gay and seekg stutnal chang through a mix of polil manverg and theologil 2011, stunts at DePl, the largt Catholic universy the untry, elected Anthony Alfano as s first openly gay stunt body print.
GAY RIGHTS COALN CASE COLLECTN
Alfano lobbied succsfully for a rource center and also worked to raise awarens about high suici rat among young gay Catholics. Gay lears at Our Lady of the Lake Universy San Anton last year persuad admistrators to alter the of nduct to clu language nmng vlence stemmg om sexual his sophomore year as vice speaker of the stunt senate and his junr year as speaker, Mr.
Tisa helped produce a report on the challeng that g gay stunts face when they arrive. Some plaed of tolerant, sometim verbally abive roommat, and rint assistants unskilled at addrsg report proposed several iativ — a genr-ntral dorm and a Safe Spac program that would signate rooms on every dorm floor where gay and mory stunts uld retreat if need.
GAY RIGHTS COALN V. GEETOWN UNIV.
”Many of Geetown’s straight stunts say they are proud of the universy’s work on behalf of gay stunts, largely bee they see as a civil rights issue. Maggie Cleary, a senr and former head of the Geetown Universy College Republins, said she thought was important for gay stunts to feel wele on mp and for those who might not have a lot of experience wh openly gay people to be exposed to them.
Acrdg to a recent Qunipiac poll, 62 percent of 18- to 34-year-old Catholics favor legalizg same-sex marriage, pared wh 48 percent of those 35 to 54, and 39 percent 55 and a much-talked-about opn piece April The Hoya, tled “Marriage an Instutn Defed by Procreatn, ” Andrew Schillg, a ernment major om Iowa, argued support of the church’s stance on homosexualy.
Still, he said, for gay stunts, certa viewpots n be difficult to hear. Early on, he began to spect he was gay. “Baby, we were born this way, ” he proclaimed, llg on Geetown to bee a voice for a new Catholicism, one that supports the entirety of a gay person’s Butler Bass, thor of “Christiany After Relign, ” says many gay stunts fd too paful to stay the church.
REARCHERS FD DIVERSE SUPPORTIVE PARTNERSHIPS AMONG OLR GAY MEN WH AND WHOUT HIV
”Kimberly Blair, a gay junr om Atlanta, remembers the disfort she felt at a Bible study group hman year. Club members were readg om the Book of Levic and discsg the moraly of homosexualy:If a man li wh a man as one li wh a woman, both of them have done what is ttable.
C., perms Geetown Universy to refe to grant regnn and mp privileg to a homosexual stunts’ group bee of the school’s Roman Catholic “history and tradn.
” However, Superr Court Judge Sylvia Ban suggted her cisn that if a natnal policy existed to protect gay rights, the Supreme Court’s recent Bob Jon Universy cisn uld pel a different ncln.