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80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
Self-scribed as “twenty-first century queer nuns, ” the Sisters began 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns’ habs and went for a stroll through San Francis’s gay Castro district. Though the past there has been wir media verage of gay prits, and of Catholic LGBTQ people generally, there has been ltle to no public discsn about the liv, stggl, and gifts that lbian and queer relig women experience.
In addn, New Ways Mistry nducts retreat weekends and support opportuni for gay men who are prits, relig brothers, and ans. ”It’s also about breakg the l, and that, Curb said, is the reason the topic has stck a chord wh so many non-Catholics and non-gays. “The book opens doors for anyone who’s ever felt an outsir, who ever felt they had to pass for mastream, ” said Curb, a 45-year-old associate profsor of English at Rolls College Wter Park, publisher has received orrs om hundreds of members of relig muni all over the Uned Stat; and the edors said support groups for current and former gay nuns are formg many of the ci they have vised.