The Secret Gay Life of the Vatin: Insi a Hidn Netherworld of the Catholic Church | Vany Fair

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• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• THE SECRET GAY LIFE OF THE VATIN: INSI A HIDN NETHERWORLD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHBY VANY FAIROCTOBER 31, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS MORS OF A POWERFUL “GAY LOBBY” WH THE VATIN MAKE HEADL AND A NEW POPE PROMIS REFORM, VANY FAIRNTRIBUTG EDOR MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS TERVIEWS DOZENS OF CURRENT AND FORMER PRITS, GAY MONKS, VETERAN VATIN JOURNALISTS, ITALIAN ARISTOCRATS, AND GAY MEN AT ROMAN GYMS, BARS, NIGHTCLUBS, SEX CLUBS, AND RTRANTS AND FDS THAT “TO BE GAY THE VATIN IS NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCS, MARK OF BELONGG, OR SHORTCUT TO EROTIC TRIGUE. MOST BASILLY IS A SENTENCE OF ISOLATN,” A LIFE “ A CLOSET THAT HAS NO DOOR.”RELATED: HOW STRAIGHT ALLI TOOK OVER—AND WON—AMERI’S GAY-RIGHTS BATTLEACRDG TO GROSS’S PIECE THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF VANY FAIR (ON STANDS TODAY), A SIGNIFINT NUMBER OF GAY CLERICS AT THE VATIN ARE POSNS OF GREAT THORY, BUT THEY HAB A SECRETIVE HERWORLD BEE HOMOSEXUALY IS OFFICIALLY NMNED. THE PRCIPAL REQUIREMENT OF THEIR POWER AND PRITHOOD IS SILENCE ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE—AT LEAST PUBLIC. ACRDG TO GROSS, “CLERICS HAB THIS SILENCE A VARIETY OF WAYS. A FEW KEEP THEIR SEXUALY ENTIRELY PRIVATE AND ADHERE TO THE VOW OF CELIBACY. MANY OTHERS QUIETLY LET THEMSELV BE KNOWN AS GAY TO A LIMED GREE … SOMETIM THEY REMA CELIBATE AND SOMETIM THEY DO NOT. A THIRD WAY, PERHAPS THE LEAST MON BUT CERTALY THE MOST VISIBLE, VOLV LIVG A DOUBLE LIFE.GROSS GO ON TO SCRIBE THE S AND SIGNALS BY WHICH GAY PRITS NAVIGATE LIFE THE VATIN. “CAMP IS PERHAPS THE MOST POWERFUL AND PERVASIVE” , WH IRONIC, EFFEMATE SELF-MOCKERY ALLOWG PRITS TO “EXERCISE SOME LIMED REBELLN AGAST THEIR OWN ISOLATN AND VISIBILY.” ONE FORMER GAY PRIT SCRIB CLERIL MP TO GROSS AS “A NATURAL WAY OF EXPRSG [GAY INTY] WHILE CELIBATE.” YET THE CHURCH, AS ITALIAN SOCIETY, GROSS WR, “THE RIGHT APPEARANCE—LA BELLA FIGURA­—IS ALL.... PARTI CELEBRATG APPOTMENT TO THE VATIN AND OTHER HIGH CHURCH OFFIC N BE LAVISH … WH MANY CLERICS ATTENDANCE BEG ‘GAY MEN WEARG EVERYTHG HANDMA, PERFECT, QUEER AS ,’” AS A PROMENT FIGURE THE ROMAN ART WORLD TELLS GROSS. STILL, GROSS FDS AN EVERY-MAN-FOR-HIMSELF DYNAMIC ROME’S GAY CLERIL CULTURE: GAY CLERICS OFTEN FAIL TO HELP ONE ANOTHER, SAYS A GAY FORMER SEMARIAN WHO WAS ROBBED ONE NIGHT A PARK WHILE NUMERO MEN STOOD BY, BEE SOLIDARY ENTAILS THE RISK OF BEG OUTED.FOR CLERICS WHO BREAK THE VOW OF CELIBACY, GAY SNAS ARE GOOD PLAC TO MEET OTHER GAY PRITS AND MONKS (THOUGH SOME GAY CELIBATE CLERICS E THE SNAS NOT FOR SEX BUT TO EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF FELLOWSHIP WH OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV), ACRDG TO GROSS.IF A GAY CLERGY MEMBER MAK A NNECTN, ’S POSSIBLE TO E YOUR MONASTERY CELL FOR SEXUAL ASSIGNATNS, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T MAKE MUCH NOISE. “YOU N SNEAK PEOPLE , NO PROBLEM,” ONE GAY MONK TELLS GROSS, “BUT TRY TO AVOID NSISTENT PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT.” THAT SAID, A FORMER MONK TELLS GROSS THAT “NO ONE HAS SEX” WH OTHER RINTS OF HIS OWN MONASTERY, “BEE IS LIKE A BIG BROTHERHOE. EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYTHG.”TO READ THE FULL VERSN OF THIS STORY, AND THE RT OF THE DECEMBER ISSUE,DOWNLOADVANY FAIR'S DIGAL EDN(AVAILABLE FOR YOUR TABLET VICE OR IPHONE) WH AMAZON’S ONE-CLICK SHOPPG.MOST POPULARBARACK OBAMA IS ALSO SRED SHLS THAT DONALD TMP COULD W ANOTHER TERM: REPORTBY BS LEVLIZZO’S DETHRONG HAS BEEN SWIFTBY KENZIE BRYANTEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTVANY FAIR
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

1946: The Mistranslatn That Shifted Culture is a feature documentary that follows the story of tirels rearchers who trace the origs of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslatn of the Bible 1946.

While other documentari have been succsful their attempt to treat the symptom of homophobia the church, 1946 is workg to diagnose and treat the disease - Biblil Leralism. Father Green "me out" to his ngregatn this Milwkee suburb about three years ago, at age 51, when he announced, "I am a gay prit, and a celibate prit.

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

" This moment me after a lifetime of stggle, servg a church that teach that "actg on" homosexual feelgs is a s.

He found folks his ngregatn were overwhelmgly asked Carol Webber, "Do matter to you that the prit here is gay? While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit.

THE SECRET GAY LIFE OF THE VATIN: INSI A HIDN NETHERWORLD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHBY VANY FAIROCTOBER 31, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAS MORS OF A POWERFUL “GAY LOBBY” WH THE VATIN MAKE HEADL AND A NEW POPE PROMIS REFORM, VANY FAIRNTRIBUTG EDOR MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS TERVIEWS DOZENS OF CURRENT AND FORMER PRITS, GAY MONKS, VETERAN VATIN JOURNALISTS, ITALIAN ARISTOCRATS, AND GAY MEN AT ROMAN GYMS, BARS, NIGHTCLUBS, SEX CLUBS, AND RTRANTS AND FDS THAT “TO BE GAY THE VATIN IS NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCS, MARK OF BELONGG, OR SHORTCUT TO EROTIC TRIGUE. MOST BASILLY IS A SENTENCE OF ISOLATN,” A LIFE “ A CLOSET THAT HAS NO DOOR.”RELATED: HOW STRAIGHT ALLI TOOK OVER—AND WON—AMERI’S GAY-RIGHTS BATTLEACRDG TO GROSS’S PIECE THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF VANY FAIR (ON STANDS TODAY), A SIGNIFINT NUMBER OF GAY CLERICS AT THE VATIN ARE POSNS OF GREAT THORY, BUT THEY HAB A SECRETIVE HERWORLD BEE HOMOSEXUALY IS OFFICIALLY NMNED. THE PRCIPAL REQUIREMENT OF THEIR POWER AND PRITHOOD IS SILENCE ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE—AT LEAST PUBLIC. ACRDG TO GROSS, “CLERICS HAB THIS SILENCE A VARIETY OF WAYS. A FEW KEEP THEIR SEXUALY ENTIRELY PRIVATE AND ADHERE TO THE VOW OF CELIBACY. MANY OTHERS QUIETLY LET THEMSELV BE KNOWN AS GAY TO A LIMED GREE … SOMETIM THEY REMA CELIBATE AND SOMETIM THEY DO NOT. A THIRD WAY, PERHAPS THE LEAST MON BUT CERTALY THE MOST VISIBLE, VOLV LIVG A DOUBLE LIFE.GROSS GO ON TO SCRIBE THE S AND SIGNALS BY WHICH GAY PRITS NAVIGATE LIFE THE VATIN. “CAMP IS PERHAPS THE MOST POWERFUL AND PERVASIVE” , WH IRONIC, EFFEMATE SELF-MOCKERY ALLOWG PRITS TO “EXERCISE SOME LIMED REBELLN AGAST THEIR OWN ISOLATN AND VISIBILY.” ONE FORMER GAY PRIT SCRIB CLERIL MP TO GROSS AS “A NATURAL WAY OF EXPRSG [GAY INTY] WHILE CELIBATE.” YET THE CHURCH, AS ITALIAN SOCIETY, GROSS WR, “THE RIGHT APPEARANCE—LA BELLA FIGURA­—IS ALL.... PARTI CELEBRATG APPOTMENT TO THE VATIN AND OTHER HIGH CHURCH OFFIC N BE LAVISH … WH MANY CLERICS ATTENDANCE BEG ‘GAY MEN WEARG EVERYTHG HANDMA, PERFECT, QUEER AS ,’” AS A PROMENT FIGURE THE ROMAN ART WORLD TELLS GROSS. STILL, GROSS FDS AN EVERY-MAN-FOR-HIMSELF DYNAMIC ROME’S GAY CLERIL CULTURE: GAY CLERICS OFTEN FAIL TO HELP ONE ANOTHER, SAYS A GAY FORMER SEMARIAN WHO WAS ROBBED ONE NIGHT A PARK WHILE NUMERO MEN STOOD BY, BEE SOLIDARY ENTAILS THE RISK OF BEG OUTED.FOR CLERICS WHO BREAK THE VOW OF CELIBACY, GAY SNAS ARE GOOD PLAC TO MEET OTHER GAY PRITS AND MONKS (THOUGH SOME GAY CELIBATE CLERICS E THE SNAS NOT FOR SEX BUT TO EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF FELLOWSHIP WH OTHERS LIKE THEMSELV), ACRDG TO GROSS.IF A GAY CLERGY MEMBER MAK A NNECTN, ’S POSSIBLE TO E YOUR MONASTERY CELL FOR SEXUAL ASSIGNATNS, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T MAKE MUCH NOISE. “YOU N SNEAK PEOPLE , NO PROBLEM,” ONE GAY MONK TELLS GROSS, “BUT TRY TO AVOID NSISTENT PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT.” THAT SAID, A FORMER MONK TELLS GROSS THAT “NO ONE HAS SEX” WH OTHER RINTS OF HIS OWN MONASTERY, “BEE IS LIKE A BIG BROTHERHOE. EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYTHG.”TO READ THE FULL VERSN OF THIS STORY, AND THE RT OF THE DECEMBER ISSUE,DOWNLOADVANY FAIR'S DIGAL EDN(AVAILABLE FOR YOUR TABLET VICE OR IPHONE) WH AMAZON’S ONE-CLICK SHOPPG.MOST POPULARBARACK OBAMA IS ALSO SRED SHLS THAT DONALD TMP COULD W ANOTHER TERM: REPORTBY BS LEVLIZZO’S DETHRONG HAS BEEN SWIFTBY KENZIE BRYANTEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTVANY FAIR

"Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light. We have high suici rat among LGBT youth, and we also have plac the world where gay people n be arrted and executed for beg gay.

"He lls Pope Francis (the first pope to e the word "gay" publicly) the most pro-LGBTQ pope ever, though acknowledgg that's "not a high bar. " "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said. ""It is a large, silent muny, a vast silent majory, " said Frédéric Martel, a French thor who spent four years rearchg his book, "In the Closet of the Vatin, " about the gay unrworld there.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS

He suggts the largt group of men the Vatin may be gay, but do not practice, and n actually be the most homophobic – and terviews disvered a real range of sexual inti. "It's important to note: the prits "Sunday Morng" spoke wh, as well as the Vatin self, see no nnectn between homosexualy and the cleril sexual abe crisis.

A five-year study by New York's John Jay College, missned by bishops, found "the data do not support a fdg that homosexual inty is a risk factor for the sexual abe of mors. "Doane spoke wh about two dozen prits, who told they were gay, but few would share their stori publicly. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s.

Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga. Films like Portra of Jason and Tongu Untied, for stance, tell ntemporary viewers as much about the dividual stori about gay Black men prented on screen as about the muni (real and imaged) that their rpective filmmakers brought to bear on their fished films.