Contents:
- STEPHEN K AMOS: 'I DON'T WANT TO BE LABELLED "THE BLACK GAY IC"'
- ‘THERE WERE VERY, VERY FEW OPENLY QUEER KIDS MY YEAR GROUP’: JOE LYCETT, COLM TóIBíN AND MORE ON HOW GAY LIFE HAS CHANGED
- GAY EDIAN STEPHEN K AMOS WAS PREPARED TO CHALLENGE POPE OVER HOMOSEXUALY
STEPHEN K AMOS: 'I DON'T WANT TO BE LABELLED "THE BLACK GAY IC"'
Pope Francis says gay men should not jo the clergyStephen K Amos was one of eight celebri – cludg L Dennis, Lley Joseph and Greg Rutherford – who trekked a 1, 000km sectn of the pilgrim’s walk om Canterbury to Rome for a BBC documentary on TV personali pleted the Via Francigena walk jt 15 days last September, as part of Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome.
‘THERE WERE VERY, VERY FEW OPENLY QUEER KIDS MY YEAR GROUP’: JOE LYCETT, COLM TóIBíN AND MORE ON HOW GAY LIFE HAS CHANGED
”‘As a gay man, I don’t feel accepted’Viewers will watch as Amos rais the issue of LGBT people feelg ostracised the relign, and explas: “As a gay man, I don’t feel accepted”.
”The Catholic Church’s stance on LGBT peoplePrevly, Pope Francis reportedly suggted parents should take children who they believe were gay to a told Italian publitn La Stampa: “I would say first of all to pray— then, to not nmn, to talk, to unrstand, to make space for the son or dghter. ”L Dennis meets Pope Francis (Photo: BBC)The Roman Catholic Church ems homosexualy a s, wh the Pope admtg there was “no room” for such acts the liv of prits and nuns.
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GAY EDIAN STEPHEN K AMOS WAS PREPARED TO CHALLENGE POPE OVER HOMOSEXUALY
I've been asked to go on all sorts of programm to discs those issu and I've jt picked a few, bee I don't want to be labelled as "the black gay ic".