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• REV RICHARD COL: CHURCH OF ENGLAND CREASGLY 'EXCLUDG' GAY UPL
• REV RICHARD COL: 'I'M THE GO-TO GAY'
• 'BEG GAY IS VERY FUN AND GOD LOV ME FOR ME', SAYS THE NEW VIR OF DIDSBURY WH AN AMAZG STORY TO TELLAUGTE TANNER-IHM, VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL, HAS BEEN ON A JOURNEY QUE UNLIKE ANY OF HIS PRECSORS THE CHURCH'S 800 YEAR HISTORYMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER07:11, 19 SEP 2021UPDATED11:44, 3 APR 2023BOOKMARKAUGTE TANNER-IHM IS THE NEW VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL DIDSBURYTHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• 'DEPRSG!' RICHARD COL RETIRED OM CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS 'GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT WELE'
• THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S SECRET GAY CABAL
• THE REV RICHARD COL: GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND ME
• REV RICHARD COL: FROM THE COMMUNARDS TO "GAY VIR" NTROVERSY
• BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD
• GAY VIRS

REV RICHARD COL: CHURCH OF ENGLAND CREASGLY 'EXCLUDG' GAY UPL

The Rev Richard Col has said he is retirg om parish duti bee the Church of England creasgly “exclus” gay parish prit, who announced his cisn to step down January, is one of the most famo virs the UK thanks to his other rol as a mician, journalist and broadster. However, the vir, who was ordaed 2005, has now also spoken out about his ncerns for the future of the Church amidst his ncerns about how gay people “are not wele” some church, as well as the staabily of the parish claimed that the only church growg number and e are those which are “nservative, punchy and fundamentalist” and that he n no longer “accept send-class cizenship the hoehold of God”.

] bee they are plac where gay people are not wele, and that l me out.

REV RICHARD COL: 'I'M THE GO-TO GAY'

Slate grey, rather roomy, boxer briefs – the unrgarment of the sensible, gay vir. "There is nothg credable the Church of England's posn on gay relatnships, " he agre. "A while later, he nces that "there are tim when distorts my relatnship wh David, which is the most important thg to me – a feelg that some ways we llu wh a homophobic stutn.

'BEG GAY IS VERY FUN AND GOD LOV ME FOR ME', SAYS THE NEW VIR OF DIDSBURY WH AN AMAZG STORY TO TELLAUGTE TANNER-IHM, VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL, HAS BEEN ON A JOURNEY QUE UNLIKE ANY OF HIS PRECSORS THE CHURCH'S 800 YEAR HISTORYMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYADAM MAIDMENTREPORTER07:11, 19 SEP 2021UPDATED11:44, 3 APR 2023BOOKMARKAUGTE TANNER-IHM IS THE NEW VIR CURATE AT ST JAM AND EMMANUEL DIDSBURYTHE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

"The Church should repent of s hostily to homosexual people and beg fivens for s treatment of the gay muny. " Such bigotry seems so ntrary to Christ's teachgs, Col says, that "you nnot be a Christian homophobe" is clear, too, on Christian rponsibily to bat HIV/Aids.

Taken quickly, often agony, sometim bld, mothers' screams om bedsis, many only jt learng their sons were gay let alone hours om ath. And all unthkably worst was the first, Mark Ashton, a "very close iend", briefly a lover, and currently beg portrayed as the lead character Pri, the film about Lbians and Gays Support the Mers.

'DEPRSG!' RICHARD COL RETIRED OM CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS 'GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT WELE'

When we discs other 1980s gay pop stars and I mentn Boy Gee chag up and beatg a young man, Col repli: "We've all done terrible thgs. "Growg up realisg you were gay 1970s Bra was like beg a paedophile now – was a life that seemed to offer only disgrace and that was very woundg for me.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S SECRET GAY CABAL

"It was his late teens that he took an overdose, chiefly the rult of beg unable to nsir any future beg gay, and was sent to a psychiatric hospal. "Somebody wked at me the street the other day – a great big gay wk, which was lightful, but what am I gog to do about ?

THE REV RICHARD COL: GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND ME

Twenty-five years ago this month, No 1 the UK sgl chart was Don't Leave Me This Way, an energetic renrg of the Harold Melv and the Blue Not soul classic by gay 80s synthpop duo the Communards.

Warm, whimsil and blsed wh a voice that pretty much f "mellifluo", he now prents Rad 4's popular Saturday morng show Saturday Live and is prentg a new four-part Rad 3 seri lled Out the World: a Global Gay was, he nces, "the go-to gay".

But 'homosexualy' was basilly vented the 19th century. The ia of 'beg gay' is a morn one. I mean, if you're gay Malawi, that's a very bald story.

REV RICHARD COL: FROM THE COMMUNARDS TO "GAY VIR" NTROVERSY

If you grew up gay-lib London and are now livg, middle-aged, middle-class, post-civil partnerships, Bra... "For his part, Col has known he was gay sce, he reckons, he was "about eight. He bought a saxophone and did ge got to know Jimmy Somerville on a Channel 4 documentary about gay teens, and wound up playg claret on A't Necsarily So wh the dimutive Glaswegian volist's then band, Bronski Beat.

He sent me a book of lbian and gay prayers afterwards. "It's not a perfect match, obvly; the majory of gay people don't nform to this stereotype, " he says. He's unhappy wh the CofE's fudge on homosexualy – OK for parishners, permissible for prits, providg they stay celibate.

BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD

The church has had difficulty wh homosexualy for centuri; 's absurd to thk that n change overnight. Col was also a very close iend of Mark Ashton, currently picted as the lead character Pri, the film about Lbians and Gays Support the Mers. Col add: “There is nothg credable the Church of England’s posn on gay relatnships”.

Openly gay, Augte started his new posn at the Didsbury church April this year and has already ma a lastg imprsn on the lol muny. In 2012, followg the passg of his younger brother, Augte cid to e out as gay.

“It was very much of the mdset that beg gay was bad but that uld be cured.

GAY VIRS

“I started readg wily and started prayg and I realised that beg gay is actually really fun, ” he now lghs. He’s a member of the Manchter Village Spartans RUFC, an clive and gay gby club, which he creds wh givg him nfince and a support work.

“I experienced racism on datg apps and I felt like I didn’t f to the many different trib of gay men. “Beg part of the Spartans has given me gay iends that have been really amazg for my own journey. “People ask me if was harr g out gay to the Christian muny or g out Christian to the gay muny, and ’s actually really hard.