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Contents:

• GAY FUNERALS
• THE SNDAL MAY BE NOT HOLDG FUNERALS FOR GAY SPO, THEOLOGIANS SAY
• WHY SOME CHRISTIANS NY GAY PEOPLE FUNERALS — AND WHY THEY MT STOP
• GAY PEOPLE FACE DISCRIMATN WHEN ARRANGG FUNERALS, SURVEY REVEALS
• US URT ALLOWS WTBORO BAPTIST'S ANTI-GAY FUNERAL PICKETS TO GO ON

GAY FUNERALS

Many of my iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer, had qutns about what they uld do to make sure their wish would be rpected.

Gay/Lbian GLBT Funerals. In recent years, few groups have faced ath more often than gay men, or more creatively. Still, ’s still all too rare for gays and lbians to have their aths honored and rualized appropriately.

Says one of our ctomers: “After a lifetime of g to terms and fally embracg and celebratg the gay life style (spe church and certa dividuals tellg you you will go to hell), jt don’t feel right to be neatly packaged up some other way, to be nied who I’ve really been. In acrdance wh your wish, we offer quiet, meangful gay and lbian funeral r as well as flamboyant, radil fairy parti.

THE SNDAL MAY BE NOT HOLDG FUNERALS FOR GAY SPO, THEOLOGIANS SAY

Gay & Ciha Ctomer ReviewsA simple way to leave a review or read what others have to sayGoogle Reviews​. So far as I n remember, the first gay funeral I ever attend was for Ralph Wilson.

I knew ar Ralph om the Universy of Michigan-Flt, where he was one of the few semi-out gay stunts on mp the early 1990s. Over the years, I have also e to see the special importance of gay funerals. Contrast this wh the very tradnal funeral for Cy Toporek, a Flt iend volved the lol Digny chapter who me out as gay middle age.

Cy had style, and thrilled at his newfound gay eedom. Not a peep was ma about him beg gay.

WHY SOME CHRISTIANS NY GAY PEOPLE FUNERALS — AND WHY THEY MT STOP

This was anythg but a gay funeral. Several of who knew Cy om the gay muny went out to dner afterwards and shared stori, part to bat the erasure we experienced at the funeral self.

McConnohie was a key and ntroversial lol activist the Gay Liberatn era of the early 1970s. She appeared on the Lou Gordon TV program, found a group lled the Motor Cy Alliance of Gays, and eded the short-lived newspaper Gayzette. She blamed the gay muny for not supportg her.

In December 2015, I drove to Waterford for the funeral of Father Rod Rehart, an openly-gay Epispal prit who had been active Detro’s LGBTQ muny sce the 1970s. The story of AIDS gay Ameri is also the story of funeral directors who refed service, of ACT UP stagg polil funerals, and of iends so bombard wh loss that they uld no longer bear the rualized good-by.

GAY PEOPLE FACE DISCRIMATN WHEN ARRANGG FUNERALS, SURVEY REVEALS

Funerals are tim of tense loss and grievg, and gay funerals are no different. There is a ncentratn of queer rememberg that happens at gay funerals, however, that is unique and val to our muny. Thou shalt not pri at a gay marriage; thou shalt not give Communn to married gay upl; and, most ntroversially, thou shalt not allow a church funeral for a ceased same-sex spoe.

Jam Bartylla, followed by nyg a Catholic funeral to a "Person a Homosexual Civil or Notor Unn, " offerg the same ratnale.

US URT ALLOWS WTBORO BAPTIST'S ANTI-GAY FUNERAL PICKETS TO GO ON

While the two bishops assert that permtg a church funeral for a ceased same-sex spoe would give sndal for seemg to ndone same-sex relatnships, other Catholics assert that nyg a church funeral to a ceased same-sex spoe would give sndal for seemg to jtify discrimatn agast homosexuals. Is permtg a church funeral to a ceased same-sex partner that would lead others to engage homosexual behavr, or is the behavr of the bishops directg prits to ny a church funeral to a ceased spoe a same-sex marriage that would lead others to engage discrimatory attus and behavrs towards same-sex upl specific, or members of the LGBT muny general? A wrong behavr, however, engagg a homosexual act, for stance, is not always morally bad if is done wh a good attu.