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GAY BARS IN CLEVEAND have been existence sce at least the 1940s and have served as important s for the cy’s LGBTQ muny to socialize, anize, and distribute rmatn and rourc. ,

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1975Foundatn of GEARThe Gay Edutnal and Awarens (GEAR) Foundatn was created to rearch human sexualy and sexual orientatn, te the public, provi mental & physil health, and social servic to the homophile muny.

GEAR operated out of the home of Art MacDonald and published the High Gear newspaper, sponsored a gay hotle and speaker’s bure, provid limed servic spac at St. Followg this setback, GEAR opens the GEAR Gay Communy Center of Cleveland a three-room sue on the third floor of the Coventry Yard Mall Buildg.

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While many black pastors nmn homosexualy om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them are often filled wh gay sgers and micians. The fact that gays and lbians often hold learship posn the church is the worst kept secret black Ameri. * cleveland gay *

1988The Lbian/Gay Communy Center of Greater ClevelandGEAR renamed self the Lbian/Gay Communy Service Center of Greater Cleveland addnally, The Livg Room and Prence and Rpect for Youth Sexual Mory (PRYSM) programs opened.

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While many black pastors nmn gays and lbians om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them often are filled wh gay sgers and micians. Print Obama's recent announcement that he supports same-sex marriage turned the spotlight on rervatns many blacks harbor about gay rights.

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Most polls show Ain-Amerins evenly divid about gay marriage, but the vol opposn, led by preachers, has gaed more attentn.

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The virtuosy of gay sgers, micians and posers has been the drivg force velopg popular gospel choirs — even chart-toppg, Grammy-wng acts — that make money for a church, help expand ngregatns and raise the profil of pastors.

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It all happens unr an unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" ctom that allows gay people to be active the church, though closeted, and church to reap the benefs of their membership. "On the one hand, you're nurtured the choir but you also have to s through some of those fire and brimstone sermons about homosexualy beg an abomatn, " says E.

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Patrick Johnson, an openly gay gospel sger and thor of Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South. Bishop Yvette Flunr of Oakland, Calif., is openly gay and the founr of The Fellowship, an anizatn of black pastors and church openly welg of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr members. " As Johnson puts , "You n't throw a shoe back through history whout htg gay and lbian women and even transgenr sgers.

" Johnson scrib church choirs as a welg muny wh a muny "where you meet other gay people, so be a form of socializg. " Commentator Keh Boyk, who is Ain-Amerin and gay, lls a paradox: "The church might be the most homophobic and most homotolerant of any stutn the black muny.

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" Woon, the pastor North Carola, agre that the prence of gays and lbians choirs or other church mistri reveals the "duplicy and, ankly, the hypocrisy of the black church.... He says his church also has ntued to support gay members who have ntracted HIV/AIDS, unlike some other church that ostracize them — a practice many people on both sis of the issue say has been mon.

But many others say they are torn between their allegiance to their church, which form the cultural and stutnal backbone of black muni, and their sire to live ee of homophobia. " Gospel mic superstar and megachurch pastor Donnie McClurk shocked the non-gospel world years ago by revealg a 2001 book that God "livered" him om a gay "liftyle" that he said was a rult of beg sexually abed as a boy. McClurk, who has said beg gay is a choice, was cricized by the gay muny for settg back the LGBT goal of gag acceptance.

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Rise Of Black Homophobia: Moraly Turns Polil For s, black misters addrsed LGBT people their sermons only ocsnally.

Pastors No Strangers To Gay Sex Sndals The sexual behavr of some male pastors, many of them also gospel sgers, also has stoked mors or led to sndal. The ntroversy was all the more notable bee Long was a proment supporter of Geia's gay marriage ban, passed 2004, and a proposed U. And Coretta Stt Kg (who supported gay marriage), led a march to prott same-sex marriage that started at the Kg fay crypt.

The Bay Area the 1970s had arguably the most visible prence of LGBT members black church, jt as the broar gay rights movement had gaed momentum the regn.

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