In January of 2009, Oprah Wey voted an hour of her daytime talk show to explorg spirualy. … The episo featured a panel of spirual teachers, cludg Rev.d Ed Ban, a rector of All Sats Epispal Church Pasana, California. Durg the broadst, the panel answered qutns om dience members and those vio-nferencg om home. One of those home llers, a 33-year-old gay man om Atlanta named Sedrick, explaed how growg up a Christian home ral Alabama ed him to see his sexualy as a hdrance velopg a fulfillg spirual life. In rponse, Rev. Ban said simply and lovgly, “Beg gay is a gift om God.”
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UNY PRI: A GAY MEN’S SPIRUALY GROUP
I left the fah of my childhood bee I knew I was not wele as an openly gay man. After wanrg for many years my own personal wilrns, I walked to a Uny church and felt the warm embrace of unndnal love. I found my spirual home, and Uny has blsed my life and my relatnships. Consequently, I have followed the bat our society over the moraly of same-sex relatns wh great tert. In the heated disurs, Scripture is often voked. Many of the people who make arguments agast acceptance of gay persons claim the Bible is the “errant” (whout error) word of God. * unity gay *
Field Not om a Queer Mystic The story of a gay Catholic misf who jos a nvent, gets tossed out, and tak both an ner and outer journey around the world—only to fally e home to Uny. Wh theater doors bolted shut for the next…foreeable future, we’re thrilled to see some Broadway talent pop up the pilot episo of Boy•Friends, a new edy based off the My Gay Boyiend web-seri. The show centers around two llege roommat, one gay and one straight, and their “journey through llege and to adulthood to bee the homo-hetero power uple of the ag.
In a world which stunts are expelled for handg out Pri flags to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill, " the need to show support for LGTBQ+ rights—publicly as well as privately—is as important as ever. Gilbert Baker Pri Flag(Image cred: Wikimedia Commons)In 1977, gay polician Harvey Milk tasked veteran Gilbert Baker to e up wh a Pri flag.
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GAY IS A GIFT
But the "leather flag, " created by Tony DeBlase 1989, is a symbol of that muny (which clus many gay men)—black may symbolize leather, whe is pury, blue is votn, and the heart is Brotherhood Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/grebhkovmaxim)Craig Byrn and Pl Wzkoske 1995 ma the "bear flag" for "a subculture of mascule-prentg gay, bisexual and trans men who embrace facial and body hair and may have larger bodi. Has such homoerotic ary ruals.