After last year’s fiasco, it’s great to know that this organisers are a strong team, realistic, focussed, and skilled. They have a very welcome emphasis on securing strong relationships with all community groups, and that very explicitly includes faith groups.…
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For the Season of Pride – Visit the Smaller Centres
From Montana, DG Smith writes: New York Pride? Check. San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Kansas City, Dallas, L.A., Denver, Philly? Double check. Bisbee, Anchorage, Bozeman, Wichita, Boise, Flagstaff? Well, uh…. I know, not exactly…
Faith at (World) Pride: London, 2012
With every year that passes, in many cities around the world, the seasonal cycle of gay pride events sees faith groups more prominent. That has clearly been so in London, and this seems likely to exceed all previous experience. 2012…
Christians Together at (World) Pride.
Gay Pride in London this July will be World Pride. A couple of hundred Christians from many different denominations will be marching as a group, under the name “Christians Together at Pride”. As the northern spring progresses towards summer, the…
Gay Pride, Drag Contests in the Amazon: Brazil and Peru
In a post about Pride Parades a few days ago, I noted that these are no longer found only in big cities in Europe and North America. In a neat illustration of this, I have come across this report, which…
In Celebration of Pride Celebrations
[In his introductory post last week, "A Dissenting Queer View: Cardinal George, Gay Pride ", Advocatus Diaboli expressed essentially two distinct concerns. One was about the overreaction by some gay activists/ gay Catholics to the Cardinal's words, and one was…
Introducing a “Devil’s Advocate” to Gay Catholic Discussion
When I set up “Queering the Church” three years ago, I stated explicitly my hope that the site would develop into more than a personal soapbox. I wanted something more, a place where the queer Catholic community (and other Christians)…
A Dissenting Queer View: Cardinal George, Gay Pride
First, I know that this is probably not going to sit well with a lot of people. I ask that if I upset you, please be mature: wait to comment until you have cooled down, thought about…
Pride Parade, Pride Mass: Reclaim the Rainbow.
Rainbows are everywhere during the season of Pride, as giant flags, painted on cheeks, as lapel pins, in clothing and hair – and at the altar for our Soho Pride Mass. Gazing at our flag over the lectern and ribbons…
The Return of the Anti-Gay Crusade, or a More Listening Church?
The approval of gay marriage in New York and civil unions in Rhode Island, and before that the fuss over the cancellation/postponement of a Gay Pride Mass in Boston, have stirred up an angry backlash in some quarters of the…
