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Contents:
- THE GAYS GO TO CHURCH JO’BURG
- VIBRANT CLUBS, BARS AND RTRANTS – THIS IS GAY-IENDLY JOHANNBURG
- GAY JOHANNBURG
- VIBRANT CLUBS, BARS AND RTRANTS – THIS IS GAY-IENDLY JOHANNBURG
- 5 BT GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS IN JOHANNBURG, SOUTH AI
- GAY JOHANNBURG JOHANNBURG CY GUI
- GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS JOHANNBURG
- VIBRANT CLUBS, BARS AND RTRANTS – THIS IS GAY-IENDLY JOHANNBURG
THE GAYS GO TO CHURCH JO’BURG
At least 14 church South Ai clar themselv gay-iendly, acrdg to the webse of Deo Gloria Fay Church, a Christian ngregatn “for all people”, wh a major foc s mistry to the gay and lbian muny. Other ten church Gteng Provce are listed as gay-iendly; another one Durban, one Wtern… * gay friendly churches johannesburg *
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At least 14 church South Ai clar themselv gay-iendly, acrdg to the webse of Deo Gloria Fay Church, a Christian ngregatn “for all people”, wh a major foc s mistry to the gay and lbian muny. Other ten church Gteng Provce are listed as gay-iendly; another one Durban, one Wtern Provce and the last one Cape Town.
GAY JOHANNBURG
The church may not be full, but the maly male ngregatn is enthiastic as a gay pastor leads a service the heart of Johannburg for the cy's gays, l * gay friendly churches johannesburg *
“We do not discrimate agast anyone regardls of sexual orientatn”, stat the Deo Gloria Fay Church, based Umhlanga (north of Durban), wh the ma purpose of explag “what God really says and don’t say about LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual) people. The Christian muni, most of them belongg to the charismatic doctre, claim that “whether you are straight, gay, lbian, bi-sexual or transgenr, you are ma God’s image and are wele at our Church”. The templ offer a space for worship to gay christians, where they n share their believ and perform same-sex marriag.
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The most spread Christian doctre, specially the Catholic church and the most nservative Evangelil ngregatns, nsir homosexualy as a s. Beg gay do not f easily wh the broar theology of the Catholic Church but officiallyWhen Cardal Wilid Napier of the Roman Catholic Church Durban nounced same-sex relatnships last week's Mail & Guardian, he was possibly unaware of the gay-iendly Holy Try Catholic Church Braamfonte, Johannburg.
Not only is the Braamfonte church on the mp of the Universy of the Wwatersrand gay-iendly, advertis the fact on s webse unr the headle "ALL are wele here". It go to tail about s mistry to gay and lbian Christians. "The church is not agast homosexuals, " said Father Rsell Pollt, the head parish prit, this week.
"Through baptism gay people have the right to participate fully the life of the church. I know many homosexuals who are valuable and active members of the church.
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South Ai has one of the world's most progrsive nstutns specifilly givg gays and lbians equal rights and makg illegal to discrimate agast people based on their sexual orientatn. This was also one of the first untri the world to legalise same-sex marriage. For cizens * gay friendly churches johannesburg *
Although Cardal Napier's recent remarks suggt that relign and homosexualy are not nsired easy bedfellows, at Holy Try the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) members are an tegral part of the ngregatn. "I ed to feel like was not right beg a homosexual and a Christian.
Now I n pray to God and know I am his child whether I am gay or not. "Some of them haven't e out to their fai and when they go home they hi that they are gay. The group ially faced some hostily om the ngregants, but after anti-homophobic msag om the pulp and the creatn of platforms for bate and dialogue, the LGBTI ngregants gradually me to be seen as nothg out of the ordary.
But beg gay do not f easily wh the broar theology of the Catholic Church. Officially, gay ngregants and prits are not to be turned away, says the Archbishop of Pretoria, William Slattery.
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"We don't fe people as homosexuals as such; people are much more than that. Homosexualy is for somethg that go back to the begng of time and any discrimatn mt be avoid.
Perplexg But sex a homosexual relatnship is disuraged. "When you bate they say: 'We don't hate homosexuals. The Christian church South Ai, no matter the nomatn, is not nsired wholly embracg of homosexualy.
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"When to homophobia South Ai and Ai, the two biggt narrativ is that is un-Ain and un-Christian, " said Gabriel Kahn, youth and tn -ordator of the Gay and Lbian Memory Actn society. In 2002, Bishop Regald Cawcutt, who ran a gay support group Cape Town durg the 1990s, was asked by the Vatin to rign. "I thk was bee of the fact that I was outspoken about homosexual issu – I was never given any reason for and the Vatin said I should step down.
The church may not be full, but the maly male ngregatn is enthiastic as a gay pastor leads a service the heart of Johannburg for the cy's gays, lbians and transsexuals. South Ai, wh a post-apartheid nstutn that bans discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn, stands out on a homophobic church may not be full, but the maly male ngregatn is enthiastic as a gay pastor leads a service the heart of Johannburg for the cy’s gays, lbians and transsexuals. South Ai, wh a post-apartheid nstutn that bans discrimatn on the grounds of sexual orientatn, stands out on a homophobic ntent.
In neighbourg Namibia, Print Sam Nujoma lled on police March to arrt, port and imprison gays and lbians, and Zimbabwean Print Robert Mugabe once lled gays and lbians ”worse than pigs or dogs”. ”We all e om other church: Baptist, Anglin, Roman Catholic, ” says pastor Pl Mokgethi, 35, who reunts that he has been mpaigng for homosexual rights sce he was 16. The MCC, which clails a worldwi membership of 40 000, f self as ”a worldwi fellowship of Christian church wh a special outreach to the world’s gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muni”.
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At the begng of November, when most Ain church nmned the nsecratn as bishop of an openly gay Epispalian the Uned Stat, some wh vilence, South Ai’s Anglins bucked the ti.
The Anglin Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, said nothg should prevent Gene Robson’s beg a bishop, and that the issue of gay clergy was ”on the agenda of the worldwi church and was not gog to go away”. Anthony Mann, of GALA, the Gay and Lbian Archiv of South Ai, told AFP: ”The nstutn did not e out of nowhere… gay and lbian people started anisg themselv the late 1960s. Homosexuals South Ai were persecuted the 1970s and 1980s unr the apartheid regime, succeedg makg their voic heard only as neared s end.
The first Gay Pri para Ai was held Johannburg 1990, and GALA has tablished a gay tour of Johannburg, but Cape Town neverthels unts as South Ai’s premier gay cy, wh gay tourists enuraged. It has bee one of the world’s great ”queer” ci, ’s gay habants say. ”Cape Town has all the thgs that brg gay people together, like mic, nightclub life and betiful scenery, and the people are tolerant and acceptg, ” said Andre Vorster, the aniser of the Mother Cy Queer Project, a popular gay stume party held annually Cape Town.