There will never be a gay stunts' group--or gay film seri or gay dance--at St. John's Semary, one of the most rpected trag grounds for Catholic prits the natn.
Contents:
- GAYS AND THE SEMARY
- GAY IENDLY? - ST. JOHN'S FOM
- ST. JOHN'S GAY MEN'S CHORUS
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ST JOHN'S
GAYS AND THE SEMARY
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E., lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and/or qutng, tersex, asexual/aromantic/agenr, alli, and more) issu the St. Lavenr Graduatn is an annual ceremony nducted on numero llege mp to honor lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer stunts who have survived and thrived throughout the llege experience.
There will never be a gay stunts' group--or gay film seri or gay dance--at St. Yet the 64-year-old stutn, ntled the hills of Camarillo, Calif., may be one of the untry's gayt facili for higher tn. Dependg on whom you ask, gay and bisexual men make up anywhere om 30 percent to 70 percent of the stunt body at the llege and graduate levels.
"I don't want people to thk that a negative way, " says a 28-year-old gay alumn, who believ all semarians there are chaste, regardls of orientatn. But some semarians are gay, openly gay, and very loud about . "Though they nstute jt over 5 percent of the populatn, gay men may make up half the stunt body at the 76 high-school, llege and graduate-level semari across the untry, acrdg to broad timat.
GAY IENDLY? - ST. JOHN'S FOM
There is no le agast celibate gays as semarians, theologians say. But for a church where prits preach that homosexualy is an "trsic evil, " is at the least ngo that so many would-be prits are gay.
Amerin church lears are now wrtlg wh the mographic reali, part bee some of them are blamg gays for the growg crisis. Semary cultur and admissns polici to see if more gays should be screened out.
ST. JOHN'S GAY MEN'S CHORUS
Though the pope has not addrsed the issue of gay semarians publicly, last year the Most Rev.
Tarcis Bertone, secretary of the Vatin's Doctral Congregatn, clared, "Persons wh a homosexual clatn should not be admted to the semary. They nsir the wing sndal to be a "homosexual-type problem, " as Detro Cardal Adam Maida has said, spe the near pluraly among psychologists, soclogists and theologians--even abe victims --who say that is not se.
"It's not a homosexual issue, " says the Rev. Pot man, says gay admissns, psychologil screeng tts and enforcement of celibacy l will all be the ncerns of Amerin prelat are reports that an aggrsive gay ethos has arisen on mp, maniftg unwelg cliqu and eccliastic flamboyance--a tenncy to embrace the stagier elements of the lurgy, for stance. "People I know que well have left the semary eher disgt bee people are not keepg vows, or alienatn bee they're not gay.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS ST JOHN'S
"[T]here do exist a homosexual atmosphere or dynamic that mak heterosexual men thk twice, " he said last month. Such plats irrate gay clergymen and their fenrs.