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Contents:

• GAY PRIT STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

GAY PRIT STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

May 24, 2009PlaOut, the leadg gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr onle muny, recently nducted an terview wh JUDAS PRIEST ontman Rob Halford.

PlaOut: Do you thk that gay dienc will be drawn to the signs?

I thk the gay muny is jt as open md as the rt of society is... A t-shirt is a t-shirt, and terms of visuals, the gay crowd, as n we, n also relate to .

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

I also thk that we go as far as stereotypg ourselv, like if you're gay, you've got to be to leather or the whe party circu. Not one uttered the word “gay.

“I really am gay, ” Father Green, now a prit near Milwkee, remembered tellg himself for the first time. For years, church lears have driven gay ngregants away shame and sisted that “homosexual tennci” are “disorred.

” And yet, thoands of the church’s prits are stori of gay prits are unspoken, veiled om the outsi world, known only to one another, if they are known at than about 10 prits the Uned Stat have dared to e out publicly. But gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Amerin Catholic clergy, acrdg to dozens of timat om gay prits themselv and rearchers.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

One prit Wisns said he assumed every prit was gay unls he knows for a fact he is not. A prit Florida put this way: “A third are gay, a third are straight and a third don’t know what the hell they are.

”Two dozen gay prits and semarians om 13 stat shared timate tails of their liv the Catholic closet wh The New York Tim over the past two months. A few had been exprsly forbidn to e out or even to speak about homosexualy. He uld lose all three if his bishop fds his sexualy disqualifyg, even if he is fahful to his vows of environment for gay prits has grown only more dangero.

McCarrick, the once-powerful rdal who was ocked last week for sexual abe of boys and young men, has flamed accatns that homosexualy is to blame for the church’s rurgent abe crisis. Studi repeatedly fd there to be no nnectn between beg gay and abg children.