“I’m Gay and I’m Catholic”: Negotiatg Two Complex Inti at a Catholic Universy | Soclogy of Relign | Oxford Amic

Contents:

• AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
• DRAFT-MY-STORY - IM GAY

AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT

When Rsell later told her roommate she would rather have been nonted privately, she was told her relatnship “wasn’t right” Liberty junr had been slowly revealg she was gay – nfidg one person, who led her to another gay stunt and then another. The school was found 1971 by Southern Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, a man renowned for his attacks on the gay muny. ” He ntued to make flammatory statements about gay people throughout his life, but he also ma overtur to the muny later Rev Jerry Falwell crowd surfs held by stunts 1997 durg the Big South Tournament semifal basketball game at Liberty Universy.

Falwell mataed that the “gay liftyle” was a s, but agreed to tone down anti-LGBTQ language, only to later blame the 9/11 terrorist attacks on gay people, femists and “abortnists” Falwell’s ath 2007, his son Jerry Falwell Jr took over and transformed Liberty to a $1bn empire. Her story is one of many: several stunts terviewed by the Guardian said they stggled wh ternalized homophobia, mental health problems and suici least she was able to avoid “pastoral unselg”, offered by the school, but which stunts assume is, effect, nversn therapy. Durg her cle her hman year, she went to one Liberty unselg ssn and did not mentn she was gay out of that fear, she said.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

”Every week, Pastor Dane Emerick “would start by tryg to gui to beg biblil men, basilly g the Bible to redirect the homosexualy to a more platonic form, while also havg time where we would nfs our urg to one another and how we had ‘stggled’ wh same-sex attractn that week and if we’d ‘overe’ or not. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP“I me to Liberty as a Libertarian Christian, and I left as an atheist Democratic socialist, ” a 25-year old who scrib himself as a “femme gay”, said. I have no voice at the school, ” he said, notg that the College Democrats were fund for sistg on a pro-choice a stunt who worked for Liberty, he said he experienced homophobia, but also credible support.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

But he also reported his roommat to the Diversy and Incln office bee their flagrant homophobia ma him feel “unsafe” Smoke, a current senr who is currently g out as bisexual, was surprised to fd any queer muny on mp.

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.

This article exam the negotiatn of sexual and relig inti among gay and lbian stunts on a Catholic universy mp. Through participant observatn and terviews nducted wh gay and lbian stunts, we intify and discs four inty tegori based on whether stunts embrace or reject relig inti and sexual mory inti: (1) tegrated (embrace both inti), (2) liberated (embrace sexual inty, reject relig inty), (3) embattled (embrace relig inty, reject sexual inty), and (4) disillned (uncertaty about both inti). For example, many sexual mory stunts beg to unrstand their sexual inti for the first time (Rhoads 1994), face anti-gay sentiment (Cotten-Hton and Wae 2000; Woodford et al.

DRAFT-MY-STORY - IM GAY

Although negotiatg relig and sexual inti n be challengg across groups and ntexts due to inty nflict (Stryker and Burke 2000), religly-affiliated universi—which are ee to discrimate ways which other stutns nnot due to relig eedom laws—n tensify and plite inty velopment for sexual study explor how gay and lbian llege stunts simultaneoly grapple wh and velop their sexual and relig inti a highly relig stutn. We answer the qutns wh data drawn om participant observatn, archival rearch, terviews wh admistrators, and 30 -pth terviews wh gay and lbian stunts at St. Reterpretatn among those who tegrate gay and Catholic inti uld be unrstood as rmal “lived” theology beg done njunctn wh, but also distctn om more formal bat among profsnal theologians.

Dpe persistent polarizatn over same-sex relatnships, Amerins are now more likely to say that gay men and lbians serve at least formal equal rights such as same-sex marriage and ary service (Brewer 2014; Pew 2015; Schnabel 2016). Yet, many relig groups ntue to draw cultural boundari opposn to same-sex relatnships (Schnabel 2016), and Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) rights are equently seen as existg ntentn wh the relig eedoms of dividuals and even stutns.

Dpe ntug tensn between tradnal relign and same-sex relatnships, a sexual-mory-affirmg “gay theology” has veloped, and some relig stutns wele gay and lbian Christians to their ngregatns (Rodriguez and Ouellette 2000; Chav and Anrson 2014). For stance, the recent shootg at an Orlando, Florida gay night club that rulted 49 aths has lled to qutn the extent to which relig doctre fluenc vlence and hate crim agast LGBTQ dividuals (Ste 2016). In rponse to a history of religly-motivated vlence agast LGBTQ persons, Pope Francis recently lled on the Catholic Church to not only apologize to the gay muny, but even ask s fivens (Gallagher and Burke 2016).