This week, we are celebrating Gay Pride in London. Tonight (Sunday), the Soho Masses congregation will be holding our annual Pride Mass, one of the highlights of our year. As we mark our progress, however, let us also remember the…
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2nd July: London Pride
TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Cologne, Germany; Helsinki, Finland; LONDON, UK;Los Angeles, CA (Black Pride); Marseilles, France; and Toronto, ON -Box Turtle Bulletin. I’m off, to join the parade, walking with other LGBT Catholics (Soho Masses, Quest and RC Caucus of the LGCM)…
Prejudice, Discrimination Are NOT Catholic Values
In November next year, voters in Minnesota will be asked to entrench the existing ban on same-sex marriage as a constitutional ban. As in Maine’s ballot box struggle in 2009, and in California in 2008, it is likely that some…
Pride and Joy!
Gay Pride events culminate this week (roughly from the last weekend in June to the first weekend in July, with today, 27 June being the actual anniversary). I have often wondered why the word Pride is used to mark the…
For the Season of Pride: Join the Parade – It’s A Catholic Duty!
In the northern hemisphere, summer is here – and summer is the season for Gay Pride. At The Wild Reed, Michael Bayly kicked off his annual Pride celebration by posting a reflection by Steve Lenius, on Gay Pride as a…
Inhabiting a Queer Space
June is Pride month, a month for reminding ourselves how far we’ve come since that fateful day – 28 June 1969 – when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, New York, decided that they were through with government-backed harassment of gays.…
Gay Masses: Soho, San Francisco.
Earlier this week, California Catholic Daily carried a piece on San Francisco Pride, and the decision by the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer not to participate. However, the parish did advertise in the Pride pocket guide: I completely fail…
Pioneers of Gay & Lesbian Theology: Reversing the Discourse.
Obama’s officially designated “Pride Month” of June has come and gone, but the season of Pride continues – especially here in the UK, where the major Pride celebrations are in any case held later: in July (London) and August (Brighton).…
Un-Catholic at Pride: Protest the Pope, or Ignore Him?
While walking down Oxford Street with other gay/lesbian Catholics, I suddenly found myself faced with a BBC television camera and reporter. “What,” she asked, “do you think of the pope’s UK visit?” This has become highly topical, and highly emotional…