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Contents:
- NOTRE DAME ENHANC SUPPORT FOR GAY AND LBIAN STUNTS
- COMMTEE FOR GAY AND LBIAN STUNTS REANIZED
- GAY RIGHTS REVISED
- GAY MEN EARN UNRGRADUATE AND GRADUATE GRE AT THE HIGHT RATE THE US, STUDY SHOWS
- NOTRE DAME, CATHOLIC UNIVERSY, WEL GAY ATHLET IN NEW CAMPAIGN
NOTRE DAME ENHANC SUPPORT FOR GAY AND LBIAN STUNTS
A mp mister at Notre Dame has a msage for gay stunts: We n challenge one another whout thkg that disagreement is moral failure, bigotry or hatred. * gay students at notre dame *
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COMMTEE FOR GAY AND LBIAN STUNTS REANIZED
Pl Burke ’98 had a qutsential Notre Dame unrgraduate experience: He was vice print of his hman class, a cheerlear, a rint assistant and a mp tour gui. He dated women and had an active social life. “I had a very typil, Notre Dame, heteronormative experience, and really enjoyed ,” says Burke, a marketg profsnal who liv near Philalphia. He didn’t pay attentn to the mp discsns about Notre Dame’s atmosphere for gay and lbian stunts and whether there should be a regnized stunt group to reprent their needs. “I wasn’t out to myself, so I certaly wasn’t out to others,” says Burke, who realized his mid-20s that he was gay. He me out to his extend fay and iends at age 30.… * gay students at notre dame *
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GAY RIGHTS REVISED
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A few years back, the Divisn of Stunt Affairs ved someone to talk to staff members about his experience as a gay stunt at Notre Dame. What he found on that first weekend, he told , was the worst weekend of his life: In a place he had hoped to be iendly and hospable, stunts were quick to ll anythg objectnably out of the ordary “gay, ” and any guy actg any way out of le was subjected to var anti-gay was eye-openg for many of .
And we will not be unanimo our often, many the church have seemed to pay special attentn to gay sex, ignorg the rigoro mands that chasty plac on all, gay and straight alike. Over the past two s, the Universy of Notre Dame has strived to advance s unrstandg of and support for stunts who intify as Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng (GLBTQ). In this regard, the Universy ow a tremendo bt of gratu to the members of the Standg Commtee on Gay and Lbian Stunt Needs and to the Core Council for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Qutng Stunts for their longstandg efforts to create and sta a healthy and clive mp for all.
GAY MEN EARN UNRGRADUATE AND GRADUATE GRE AT THE HIGHT RATE THE US, STUDY SHOWS
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The Universy affirms the Church’s posn that persons who intify as gay or lbian “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy. Wh the Church, the Universy ntu to note “the distctn monly drawn between the homosexual ndn or tenncy and dividual homosexual actns” (The Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, 1986, #3). Wh the Amerin Bishops’ Commtee on Marriage and Fay, the Universy fends that “Generally, homosexual orientatn is experienced as a given, not as somethg eely chosen.
All people are created the image and likens of God and th posss an nate human digny that mt be acknowledged and rpected” (Mistry to Persons wh a Homosexual Orientatn, USCCB, 2006). As a rult, “Homosexual persons are lled to chasty” and to “iendship, ” and should cultivate “the virtu of self‐mastery that teach them ner eedom” (CCC, 2359). He didn’t pay attentn to the mp discsns about Notre Dame’s atmosphere for gay and lbian stunts and whether there should be a regnized stunt group to reprent their needs.
NOTRE DAME, CATHOLIC UNIVERSY, WEL GAY ATHLET IN NEW CAMPAIGN
“I wasn’t out to myself, so I certaly wasn’t out to others, ” says Burke, who realized his mid-20s that he was gay. Sce early 2020, Burke has chaired Gay and Lbian Alumni of Notre Dame/Sat Mary’s College (GALA-ND/SMC), a group numberg 1, 600 members that has existed formally sce 1994 but isn’t officially affiliated wh the Universy.
This past June the Notre Dame Alumni Associatn announced the creatn of the Alumni Rabow Communy of Notre Dame (ARC ND), a group dited to brgg together lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng alumni and their iends.
Zahn says he felt a powerful need to brg the different ponents of his life together, cludg his inty as a gay man and his love for his alma mater. They sat on the back porch of the man’s rental hoe South Bend and talked for hours about the need for an alumni group acceptg of gay and lbian Notre Dame graduat.