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• DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER
• FR. ROBERT SIRI ON GAY MARRIAG HE ONCE PERFORMED
• DR. ROBERT GAY
• ROBERT ARP, 48, CATHOLIC PRIT WHO ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY
• ROBERT GAY

DE NIRO OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY FATHER

Was gay and private about his sexualy.

De Niro’s father was a gay man who divorced De Niro’s mother when the actor was a child. The MCC is a non-nomatnal church anized by and for gays and lbians. Siri had earlier been ordaed as a Pentestal mister, acrdg to the newspaper, and 1971 he explaed his fah-healg mistry to the Seattle 1975, Siri performed what was reported to be the first “gay marriage” ceremony the history of Colorado, held at the First Unarian Church Denver on April 21, acrdg to an article the Denver Post, reprted below.

I believe that my activi the 1970s, though reprentg a very different polil and theologil stance to the on I hold today, nohels help me to unrstand the plex issu that go to the bate “gay marriage. ” In this regard I believe the ‘gay marriage’ qutn aris today bee as a culture we no longer fully unrstand what marriage self is s biblil and theologil meang. ”At the same time, we mt nont the realy that there are those who are, to a greater or lser gree, cled towards homosexual relatnships.

FR. ROBERT SIRI ON GAY MARRIAG HE ONCE PERFORMED

The 1975 Denver Post article: 2 Men Wed In Denver Church Re The 1972 Seattle Tim article: Pastor to perform homosexual marriag.

Robert & Stacey Gay. Robert and Stacey Gay are the Founrs and Apostolic Pastors of High Praise Worship Center, a thrivg dynamic church Panama Cy, Florida. Robert Arp, 48, Catholic Prit Who Announced He Was Gay ADVERTISEMENTMay 25, New York Tim ArchivSee the article s origal ntext om May 25, 1995, Sectn B, Page 16Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the ArchiveThis is a digized versn of an article om The Tim’s prt archive, before the start of onle publitn 1996.

Robert Arp, the first openly gay Roman Catholic prit the Uned Stat, died on Tuday at his home San Francis.

DR. ROBERT GAY

He was mother, Jeate Arp, said the e was AIDS, the disease whose diagnosis May 1987 prompted Father Arp to make a public claratn two months later that he was a gay prit wh AIDS. "His announcement me jt seven months after the Vatin had nounced homosexual orientatn as "an objective disorr" and homosexual practice as "an trsic evil.

ROBERT ARP, 48, CATHOLIC PRIT WHO ANNOUNCED HE WAS GAY

"It also ma Father Arp somethg of a hero to the gay muny San Francis and to other gay Arp, who was born Chipee, Mass., worked as a parish prit Sprgfield, Mass., before he transferred to San Francis 1986 to work as a unselor to people grief. Dpe the church's teachgs on homosexualy, Father Arp, who timated that 40 percent of Amerin prits and 60 percent of those urban areas are homosexual, experienced ltle terference om the church.

"The Roman Church ntu to be homophobic, " he said, "rootg out and attemptg to silence gay prits. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 16 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Robert Arp, 48, Catholic Prit Who Announced He Was Gay.

It was later revealed that he had long lived a closeted gay life and was HIV-posive. In a 2000 ABC News terview, Henrson talked about Reed’s homosexualy, which she learned about while filmg the “Brady” pilot, and explaed some of the reasons behd his bad behavr on set.

ROBERT GAY

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