The rebel prit: ‘Gay people the church are not gog to go away’ | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD
• GAY VIR QUS AND ATTACKS ‘STUTNAL HOMOPHOBIA’
• I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS
• CORONATN STREET’S GAY VIR DANIEL BROCKLEBANK LOST OUT ON HOLLYWOOD REER AFTER G OUT
• THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
• GAY VIRS
• DAD'S ARMY : WAS THE VIR GAY
• CORONATN STREET'S GAY VIR FAC BACKLASH OM FANS AND CHURCHGOERS OVER ROLE
• 'BEG GAY IS VERY FUN AND GOD LOV ME FOR ME', SAYS THE NEW VIR OF DIDSBURY WH AN AMAZG STORY TO TELLAUGTE TANNER-IHM, VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL, HAS BEEN ON A JOURNEY QUE UNLIKE ANY OF HIS PRECSORS THE CHURCH'S 800 YEAR HISTORYMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER07:11, 19 SEP 2021UPDATED11:44, 3 APR 2023BOOKMARKAUGTE TANNER-IHM IS THE NEW VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL DIDSBURYTHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD

Bra’s only openly married gay vir has been elected to the Church of England’s General Synod, and will e his posn to “advote for a church that fac up to issu of sexualy a hont and passnate way” Forhew-Ca, the vir of St Mary wh All Souls, Kilburn and St Jam, Wt Hampstead, said he was “pleased but shocked” at his electn the London sectn of the natnwi ballot to the church’s erng body. Another gay vir, Bertrand Olivier of All Hallows by the Tower, the Cy of London, was also elected after what he scribed as a “polarisg” ntt. “The next five years will be que important as the Church of England ntu to nsir how als wh gay marriage as the rt of the world mov on, ” he this week Jeremy Pemberton, a gay hospal chapla who is awag the oute of an dtrial tribunal agast the church, will fd out if his bid for a synod seat has been succsful.

The church was “guilty of terrible dishonty” on the issue, he well as mpaigng on gay rights wh the church, Forhew-Ca said he also wanted to prs for the re-tablishment of the synod’s thory. The first Church of England vir a same-sex marriage is leavg his parish and claims “stutnal homophobia” the church means he is blacklisted om gettg another Forhew-Ca, 53, a member of the General Synod, rigned om his London parish on Sunday, tellg parishners was a “relief” bee his mistry, and that of other gay and lbian clergy, was “barely tolerated rather than fully accepted and celebrated” vir of St Mary wh All Souls, Kilburn, and St Jam Wt Hampstead is movg to Manchter where his hband, Stephen, whom he married 2014, is now workg.

I n’t rry on beg a prit bee the stutnal homophobia of the church mak impossible. ”The Church of England bans clergy om gay marriage, but has been tolerant of him his current post.

GAY VIR QUS AND ATTACKS ‘STUTNAL HOMOPHOBIA’

” He said the current learship, “whilst willg to allow me to ntue here, is unwillg to license me to a mistry elsewhere” wrote of the “nstant prsure” of workg “for an stutnally homophobic anisatn that bldly ni that s polici and practic are liberately and harmfully discrimatory and wrong” add: “I am lookg forward to no longer feelg that a signifint part of me is unwele and rejected by the anisatn that I work for and have served fahfully for nearly 30 years. Father Krysztof Olaf Charamsa (L), who works for a Vatin office, hugs his partner Edouard durg a prs nference to reveal his homosexualy Rome, Italy, October 3, 2015. This week the Church of England found self a very publicly difficult suatn about sexualy— the end of Augt, Bishop Nicholas Chamberla, the Bishop of Grantham, me out as the first openly gay bishop wh a partner.

I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS

We now know that the Archbishop of Canterbury knew about this and ed had them both round for dner; the Bishop of Lln knew, and ed the prs office at Church Hoe knew—'s jt that they uldn't bear to thk that anyone else would weekend has also seen the publishg of an open letter om 14 of the married gay and lbian clergy of the Church of England, and other some married lay people, to our bishops. I had been wh my hband for 15 years before we uld marry, and beg married has ma a real difference—somehow the whole relatnship feels more solidly ground and we rejoice that official posn is that lay people n pretty much do as they please, though the Church ensured that is impossible for gay upl to legally marry a Church of England parish and lol clergy are banned om offerg servic of blsg, such as those given to Prce Charl and Cala after their civil marriage, even if the uple haven't been volved a notor are allowed to enter civil partnerships, aga whout a church service afterwards, and have to promise not to have sex wh each other.

Bishop Nic is not a civil partnership but has said that he is celibate and this he is entirely pliant wh the current Church has been an attempt at a blanket stop on marriage for gay and lbian clergy, and those who do are officially discipled, and a ban placed on them ever gettg a new post the Church. The Church will not nsir for ordatn anyone who is married to someone of the same sex, no matter how good a prit they might quietly, clergy are gettg married or nvertg their civil partnerships to marriage; gay ordands sexual relatnships are gettg the nod through while appearg to ply wh the selectn procr; and clergy are havg sex their civil partnerships. Prits are offerg servic of blsg and thanksgivg to gay and lbian upl and parish celebratg wh them.

Slate grey, rather roomy, boxer briefs – the unrgarment of the sensible, gay vir. "There is nothg credable the Church of England's posn on gay relatnships, " he agre. "A while later, he nces that "there are tim when distorts my relatnship wh David, which is the most important thg to me – a feelg that some ways we llu wh a homophobic stutn.

CORONATN STREET’S GAY VIR DANIEL BROCKLEBANK LOST OUT ON HOLLYWOOD REER AFTER G OUT

"The Church should repent of s hostily to homosexual people and beg fivens for s treatment of the gay muny. " Such bigotry seems so ntrary to Christ's teachgs, Col says, that "you nnot be a Christian homophobe" is clear, too, on Christian rponsibily to bat HIV/Aids. Taken quickly, often agony, sometim bld, mothers' screams om bedsis, many only jt learng their sons were gay let alone hours om ath.

And all unthkably worst was the first, Mark Ashton, a "very close iend", briefly a lover, and currently beg portrayed as the lead character Pri, the film about Lbians and Gays Support the Mers. When we discs other 1980s gay pop stars and I mentn Boy Gee chag up and beatg a young man, Col repli: "We've all done terrible thgs. "Growg up realisg you were gay 1970s Bra was like beg a paedophile now – was a life that seemed to offer only disgrace and that was very woundg for me.

"It was his late teens that he took an overdose, chiefly the rult of beg unable to nsir any future beg gay, and was sent to a psychiatric hospal.

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

"Somebody wked at me the street the other day – a great big gay wk, which was lightful, but what am I gog to do about ? Coronatn Street star Daniel Brocklebank has revealed that he lost out on a Hollywood reer after he me out as gay at the age of 18. “I stopped beg screen-tted for the heterosexual male leads and I was eher the gay bt iend or the character parts.

GAY VIRS

Daniel Brocklebank me out publicly bee there was a lack of gay role mols. Daniel Brocklebank went on to reveal that he me out publicly bee he was all too aware of the shortage of gay role mols the public eye.

DAD'S ARMY : WAS THE VIR GAY

Brocklebank said the difference between beg gay then and now is “huge”.

CORONATN STREET'S GAY VIR FAC BACKLASH OM FANS AND CHURCHGOERS OVER ROLE

“Now ’s credibly fashnable to be gay and I like to thk I was a small way part of that movement to get the ball rollg, ” he said. In 2017, he rigned, publicly nmng the church as “stutnally homophobic”.

It was a bold statement, and one he knew would bar him om ever heterosexual prits n marry and have sex, gay clergy members are expected to rema unmarried and celibate. In April, he and a aln of LGBTQ clergy members lnched the Campaign for Equal Marriage the Church of England, which advot for the right of lbian and gay Anglins to marry their lol parish, and mands that gay clergy members who marry should be allowed to exercise their mistry. “Unls the Church of England n be enthiastic s wele of gay and lbian people, and their fai and iends, too, we don’t stand a chance.

“I never experienced any homophobia about , ” he rells.

'BEG GAY IS VERY FUN AND GOD LOV ME FOR ME', SAYS THE NEW VIR OF DIDSBURY WH AN AMAZG STORY TO TELLAUGTE TANNER-IHM, VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL, HAS BEEN ON A JOURNEY QUE UNLIKE ANY OF HIS PRECSORS THE CHURCH'S 800 YEAR HISTORYMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER07:11, 19 SEP 2021UPDATED11:44, 3 APR 2023BOOKMARKAUGTE TANNER-IHM IS THE NEW VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL DIDSBURYTHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

By Forhew-Ca’s acunt, the broad acceptance he enjoyed wasn’t an aberratn, but ditive of Anglinism at the Rev Andrew Forhew-Ca (ont, third om right) wh fellow openly gay members of the General Synod 2017. A rurgent nservatism wh the C of E unhappily cid wh more antagonistic forms of gay activism and liberatn after the partial crimalisatn of same-sex timacy 1967. Pri march began the followg , while the onset of the Aids crisis the 80s would force sexualy to the public growg visibily of gay and transgenr people wh society forced the church to fe s posn.