One Green Bay church at center of gay marriage bate

Contents:

• GAY UPLE BE 1ST TO MARRY BROWN COUNTY
• GAY DATG GREEN BAY
• GAY DATG GREEN BAY
• ONE GREEN BAY CHURCH AT CENTER OF GAY MARRIAGE BATE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) RIGHTS MOVEMENT WISNS
• GAY GREEN BAY (BROWN COUNTY, WISNS)
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WISNS
• GAY WISNS
• GAY DATG GREEN BAY
• ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

GAY UPLE BE 1ST TO MARRY BROWN COUNTY

"Voters amend the Wisns Constutn 2006 to outlaw gay marriage or anythg substantially siar. District Judge Barbara Crabb, a lawsu the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn had filed on behalf of eight gay upl, issued an 88-page orr Friday clarg the ban her cisn did not orr unti to start issug licens.

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GAY DATG GREEN BAY

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“As a gay person, I wanted nothg to do wh the church, " Knoke said. I was like, ‘I need to be up ont and hont: I’m gay.

I’m gog to be gay, '" she said.

GAY DATG GREEN BAY

"Unn Congregatnal Uned Church of Christ on South Madison Street Green Bay and First Congregatnal Uned Church of Christ on Cedar Street De Pere are the other signatn means the church publicly wel "to full life and mistry of s church to persons of lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, " acrdg to Unn's open and affirmg open and affirmg signatn isn't arbrary, nor is simply proclaimed by a church. "Christian and gay: self-acceptance the churchIn 2009, the Churchwi Assembly of the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri (ELCA) allowed gay and lbian people who were relatnships to bee pastors.

ONE GREEN BAY CHURCH AT CENTER OF GAY MARRIAGE BATE

Homosexualy wasn't ually talked about, but when was, the church's msage was clear. "There was an unrstandg that beg gay was bad and you were not gog to heaven.

She and her wife felt supported, clergy celebrated homosexualy sermons, and LGBTQ fai played the morn Holy Fay the Nativy at s of searchg for a church where she belonged, Connie said, she had fally found her safe haven at Unn. GREEN BAY – Todd Kane didn’t wa for gay marriage to bee legal Wisns to marry his married Michael Vson 2012 at their church, Unn Congregatnal Uned Church of Christ Green Bay, ont of their fai and iends.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) RIGHTS MOVEMENT WISNS

“We ll our weddg, ” Kane said of the ceremony that me two years before a feral urt judge led this month that the state’s gay marriage ban was unnstutnal. “If someone is a gay or straight person they are cizens of this muny and are entled to the same rights and privileg of everyone else. “It was not a unanimo or easy cisn, ” said Hartman, who add that the church did a number of studi over the years to explore how, and if, the ngregatn uld be clive to the gay many discsns and arguments, the vote to officially wele gay muny members to their church me six years later 1998.

”Barbara McClure-Lens, the church morator, said sce the ial vote, the church has experienced a surge membership, both gay and straight dividuals. 1 percent of rponnts favored allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, and 37.

GAY GREEN BAY (BROWN COUNTY, WISNS)

Support for gay marriage do not reach to all religns. "There was the newsletter om Northern Womyn, a lbian anizatn Green Bay tablished the 1970s; drag "rac" at Baird Creek that held ntts to see how quickly folks uld transform to their queenly attire; the Bay Cy Chos, a gay sgg group that distributed tnal, social and cultural materials about LGBTQ matters wherever they performed; and the Argonts of Wisns, a Green Bay-based LGBTQ social club that holds the distctn of beg the first gay anizatn the state. The Stonewall rts New York Cy energized the gay rights movement 1969, and as LGBTQ people searched for shared experienc and safe spac, they found them at bars and clubs that openly weled them.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WISNS

“Gay bars have been such an tegral part of our history, ” Tenpenny said. “Gay bars, not jt Green Bay, but all over the place, beme the muny center, ” said Mark Mariucci, a Green Bay rint who ran several LGBTQ bars cludg Za’s, Java’s and the Wt Picture Show between 1989 and 2004.

GAY WISNS

In 1980, the Green Bay Prs-Gazette published a week-long seri, "Gay Green Bay, " that lled bars like The Manhole a “lchp, a central place where s members n exist the open whout the fear of retributn om the straight world.

”Tenpenny is workg wh the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay to tablish a Northeast Wisns LGBTQ History Archive to llect some of the history project's memorabilia om gay bars and clubs, like t-shirts and tailed histori of var LGBTQ bars and support groups that were active over recent s. The Fox Valley Gay Alliance, a very early support group formed 1972 Neenah, often met members' hom, and a equent topic of discsn was fdg a tavern that would be "openly gay-iendly.

Mallien, now 85 and livg Milwkee, said openly terg to gays and lbians  the 1970s often drew backlash om teenagers, "Bible thumpers, " as Mallien lled them, and the larger Green Bay muny. In a 1980 story, the Prs-Gazette lled The Manhole "the gatherg place for much of the younger gay muny.

GAY DATG GREEN BAY

" People terviewed 1980 told journalists they wouldn't have been able to tolerate Green Bay whout the bar and that showed them there was a gay muny here.

Supreme Court's 2015 lg that legalized gay marriage natnwi — have helped LGBTQ people ga wir acceptance the muny, cludg at straight bars and 're imprsed a sports bar eyight of Lambe Field not only hosted but sold out a drag show recently.

"The suici rate among young, gay people is still high, which is unfortunate, " Penrgast said.

ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK

“Gay bars are the one place my life I have ever been where my muny outnumbers straight people. “We ed to have seven or eight gay bars open.