By: Wendy Gillis Toronto Star News reporter, Published on Sun Aug 25 2013 Islamic scholars experience diversy of Mlim practic at U of T summer program Visors om around the world takg part a Universy of Toronto Islamic studi nference vis a gay-iendly, genr-equal mosque. Three dozen men and women s barefoot si a…
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- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
- ‘APOSTASY’: GAY ‘PRI’ FLAG TO FLY OVER TORONTO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
A Catholic Communy for Lbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Nonbary, and Transgenr People Toronto, Canada.
You’ll notice I don’t like sayg, oh, gay Catholics or gay Christians. Our inty is a son or dghter ma the image and likens of God, when you put labels like gay, lbian, transgenr, I try to say thgs like person who intifi as gay, someone who has same-sex attractns.
When you put gay Catholic ont, or gay Christian, you put someone si of a box and lims them. Three years after they met Milk was elected to the San Francis board of supervisors, makg him the first openly gay person to hold a high public office the Amerin cy. And so when after Milk won his electn, he challenged Baker to e up wh a symbol of pri for the gay muny.
TORONTO MOSQUE IS GAY IENDLY, MIXED GENR PRAYERS LED BY A WOMAN
Bee prr to that 1974, people who intify as gay and lbian ed the purple triangle, the pk triangle, bee that was the symbol that they were labeled wh Nazi ncentratn mps. They actually, says here, “They wanted to celebrate Gay Freedom Day. So Gay Freedom Day mtee quickly cid that the rabow flags should be flown om the light pol along both sis of Market Street for the 1979 Gay Freedom Day Para.
‘APOSTASY’: GAY ‘PRI’ FLAG TO FLY OVER TORONTO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
You’ve got Catholics… I gus ’s like, they’re are the Catholics who have gone off the rails, and say there’s nothg wrong wh homosexualy. He has never gone on rerd sayg the church’s teachg on homosexualy is wrong.
And while I know I’m gettg a b worked up talkg about this, but I do want to note here, people who intify as gay, lbian, transgenr, they are not an enemy. lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT).
Pastoral Reflectn for Lbian and Gay.