What the Male-Only World of Altar Boys Meant to This Former Gay Man

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The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism. * gay altar boy *

Emerson Colls, Llie Jordan, Dale Dickey and Willam all return to chat about a story about southern alter boys alg wh their buddg gay urg, and a town of eccentric characters ready to eat them all alive. It’s a great way to enjoy an eveng of gayns, theatre, and do so for a good e. [See also: Why So Many Gay Men Are Former Catholics].

It’s bee a rather sad cliché among those who later bee “gay, ” but I loathed PE as I was always the last one picked for a team.

WHAT THE MALE-ONLY WORLD OF ALTAR BOYS MEANT TO THIS FORMER GAY MAN

After graduatn, I lerally ran to San Francis’s “gay” Castro District – knowg that there, I would fd the acceptg all-male world I never felt a part of. 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. It’s bee a rather sad cliché among those who later bee “gay, ” I too loathed my physil tn class as I always end up the last one picked for a team; even the girls were preferred by the athletic boy team ptas. 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.

WHAT BEG AN ALTAR BOY – ONCE MEANT TO A FORMER GAY MAN

Over a later, when I crashed onto the siwalk outsi a gay sex club, I hobbled back to the Church, strangely enough, first headg to the same parish where I once served as an altar boy. In 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 former 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 wh gay men.

THE GAY CHURCH

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. We have no reliable figur on jt how many prits the Catholic Church are gay.

In the Uned Stat, however, where there are 37, 000 prits, no pennt study has found fewer than 15 percent to be gay, and some have found as many as 60 percent. A church that, sce 2005, bans prits wh “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and officially teach that gay men are “objectively disorred” and herently disposed toward “trsic moral evil” is actually posed, ways very few other stutns are, of gay men.

The llapse of the closet public and private life the past three s has ma the disproportnate homosexualy of the Catholic prithood much ls easy to hi, ignore, or ny.

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This cultural and moral shift has not only changed the nscns of most Amerin Catholics (67 percent of whom support civil marriage for gay upl) and gay prits (many of whom are close to qutg) but also broken the silence that long shroud the subject. ” remark after beg asked about a flawed gay prit. “A person once asked me, a provotive manner, if I approved of homosexualy, ” Francis went on.

“I replied wh another qutn: ‘Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, do he endorse the existence of this person wh love or reject and nmn this person? ” In the fal draft of the 2014 Synod on the Fay, Francis clud explic mentn of the “gifts and quali” of homosexuals, askg, “Are we pable of welg [them]?

Alarmed by the possibily that divorced and remarried people might be weled as well as gays, tradnalists lnched a fierce rearguard mpaign agast the new papacy, wh a foc on what some lled a “Lavenr Mafia” nng the church, and broke new ground nnectg this directly to the horrifyg revelatns of sex abe that me to light 2002. In creasgly direct ways, they have argued that the root of the sndal was not abe of power, or pedophilia, or clerilism, or the distortive psychologil effects of celibacy and stutnal homophobia, but gayns self.

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“There is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even wh the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root, ” the Amerin rdal Raymond Burke clared Augt. “It is time to adm that there is a homosexual subculture wh the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreakg great vastatn, ” he wrote.

“If you’ll perm me, what the church needs now is more hatred” of homosexual sexual behavr, “a s so grave that cri out to heaven for vengeance. ” Michael Hichborn, head of the ge-right Lepanto Instute, lled for a “plete and thorough removal of all homosexual clergymen om the church … It is gog to be difficult and will likely rult a very ser prit shortage, but ’s fely worth the effort.

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