Twitter message receieved, from Matt Lynn@MattLynn : @queering_church May I ask 3 mins to share my struggle for LGBT equality? I’d sincerely appreciate it: kck.st/1krQ2B3 When gay Christians come out, to family or in church, experiences vary greatly. I’ve been lucky: my own…
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Fortunate Families: “A Mom Comes Out”
We usually think of the sexual closet and “coming out” as applying to lesbians and gay men, but there are many others dealing with the same issues - especially our parents. “Voices for Justice“, the magazine of Fortunate Families (a…
Christmas Gift Suggestion: Give Yourself!
For the Christmas season, “Fortunate Families” have a valuable suggestion: Give yourself! “Fortunate Families” describe themselves as “a national organization of Catholic parents with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender children who support others like us to affirm, celebrate, and seek equality for…
Coming Out, as an Act of Faith
Gay and lesbian people will be more than familiar with the many sound arguments favour of stepping out of that closet, and openly living a life of sexual honesty and integrity. The process can be difficult and challenging (and in…
Gay Priest Fr Gary Meiers, In His Own Words
I’ve already written about Fr Gary Meiers, a Catholic priest who has just republished his book, “Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay, Catholic Priest“, no longer anonymously but under his own name - thereby coming out about as publicly as it…
Let Us Remember, for Feb 22nd
Fr Robert Carter, Priest and Gay Activist “Since Jesus had table fellowship with social outcasts and sinners, those rejected by the religious establishment of his time, I consider myself to have been most fully a Jesuit, a ‘companion of Jesus,’…
Another Gay Catholic Blog
Or perhaps not quite so Catholic, but still Christian. “A Brave Faith” describes the site in the strapline as “One gay Christian’s journey towards authenticity“, and at the foot of the page, adds “About abravefauth: 42 year old gay Christian finding…
Epiphany: Soho Masses Community Celebrate the Feast of Coming Out
Yesterday, January 6th, the Church celebrated the great Feast of the Epiphany - the feast where Jesus is shown to the world, revealed. Where he comes out. At the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street, the Soho Masses community celebrated…
Walking in Our Shoes
Here’s an interesting ethical dilemma. We know that some churches and some pastors have decided they will not act as marriage officers for heterosexual couples, until they can do so for all couples. We also know that some opposite sex…
A Gay Catholic Coming Out Story
For National Coming Out Day, Enrique Molina has shared his own coming out story, as pne raised in a deeply religious Catholic home. Religion has always played a major part of my life. Officially a Roman Catholic, I also attended and…
