Blacks, Gays And The Church: A Complex Relatnship : NPR

Contents:

• GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WATCH
• GAY HAWKS
• PROFSOR GAY HAWKS
• NEWS ANCHORS LOS ANGEL WHO ARE GAY...
• BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
• DR. HAWKS C. GAY
• IS WALTER HAWKS GAY?
• GAY HAWKS – WASTE AS A POLIL MATERIAL
• IS SALLY HAWKS GAY?

GAY CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WATCH

A new book wrten by gay thor E. Patrick Johnson, a profsor at Northwtern Universy Evanston, IL ntas a rather overt assertn that gospel mic dtry worker Walter Hawks and his brother Edw are homosexuals.

The book an “oral history” format to tell the stori of homosexual men the south. The spir that is fairly domate the gospel mic dtry was part, hered by the men who still are revered and idolized by the unrepentant homosexual muny the church. In , Johnson says many ntemporary gospel artists are gay, even if they do not acknowledge publicly.

GAY HAWKS

To the gays the church who already know this is te, provis a sense of empowerment to ntue a sful liftyle while claimg to be saved. Gay Hawks is a profsor social and cultural theory at the Instute for Culture and Society at Wtern Sydney Universy.

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PROFSOR GAY HAWKS

Who is gay LA? Always wonred if he was gay - he do have gay face and, what ever happened to Rick Garcia on Channel 2 news??

I always got a gay vibe om NBC's Michael Brownlee, so I was surprised to learn he has a wife and kids. Der Gay edn:Hosea Sanrs (now Chigo) had a girliend but was on the down-low when he was at Shuman approached me public once to bum a smoke and was very chatty and tense the way small guys sometim are.

NEWS ANCHORS LOS ANGEL WHO ARE GAY...

Hosea Snrs is gayer than Gayee McGayerson. KTLA's Kirk Hawks is gay, and his partner (hband? I fally did some searchg on him and found that he performed a solo wh the Gay Men's Chos of Los Angel back 2018.

John Fenogl is gay. Yet the prence of gays and lbians black church is mon. While many black pastors nmn gays and lbians om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them often are filled wh gay sgers and micians.

BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP

Wiley is a proment advote of gay marriage.

Print Obama's recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage turned the spotlight on rervatns many blacks harbor about gay rights. Most polls show Ain-Amerins evenly divid about gay marriage, but the vol opposn, led by preachers, has gaed more attentn. Woon helped lead the recent mpaign that outlawed gay marriage his state.

The virtuosy of gay sgers, micians and posers has been the drivg force velopg popular gospel choirs — even chart-toppg, Grammy-wng acts — that make money for a church, help expand ngregatns and raise the profil of pastors. It all happens unr an unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" ctom that allows gay people to be active the church, though closeted, and church to reap the benefs of their membership.

DR. HAWKS C. GAY

"On the one hand, you're nurtured the choir but you also have to s through some of those fire and brimstone sermons about homosexualy beg an abomatn, " says E. Patrick Johnson, an openly gay gospel sger and thor of Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South. Patrick Johnson, who is openly gay, says morn gospel mic is largely fed by the artistry of black gay men.

IS WALTER HAWKS GAY?

Johnson and others believe that morn gospel mic self is largely fed by the artistry of black gay men.

Bishop Yvette Flunr of Oakland, Calif., is openly gay and the founr of The Fellowship, an anizatn of black pastors and church openly welg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr members.

It was Christiany that monized gay people. " As Johnson puts , "You n't throw a shoe back through history whout htg gay and lbian women and even transgenr sgers. " Johnson scrib church choirs as a welg muny wh a muny "where you meet other gay people, so be a form of socializg.

GAY HAWKS – WASTE AS A POLIL MATERIAL

" Commentator Keh Boyk, who is Ain-Amerin and gay, lls a paradox: "The church might be the most homophobic and most homotolerant of any stutn the black muny. " Woon, the pastor North Carola, agre that the prence of gays and lbians choirs or other church mistri reveals the "duplicy and, ankly, the hypocrisy of the black church....

However, Woon sists "we are not all homophobic. He says his church also has ntued to support gay members who have ntracted HIV/AIDS, unlike some other church that ostracize them — a practice many people on both sis of the issue say has been mon.

Dennis Wiley of Covenant Baptist Uned Church of Christ Maryland is a proment advote of gay marriage. "We believe homosexualy is a s. This is not limed to homosexuals or lbians.

IS SALLY HAWKS GAY?

But many others say they are torn between their allegiance to their church, which form the cultural and stutnal backbone of black muni, and their sire to live ee of homophobia.