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Contents:

• GAY PENTECOSTALS FIND A PLACE TO WORSHIP
• BAYSI – FIRST PENTESTAL MEGACHURCH CHURCH TO ACCEPT GAYS
• BRAZIL: GAY PENTESTAL PASTOR LEADS LARGELY LGBT NGREGATN
• THE GAY PREACHER
• ON BEG GAY THE BLACK PENTESTAL CHURCH
• ‘WELG, BUT NOT AFFIRMG’: BEG GAY AND CHRISTIAN
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• GAY PRITS AND OTHER BOGEYMEN
• IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

GAY PENTECOSTALS FIND A PLACE TO WORSHIP

Pentestal ngregatns have historilly nmned homosexualy, and most Pentestal nomatns have doctral statements nmng homosexualy, such as the Internatnal Pentestal Hols Church’s statement, “We have mataed a strong posn agast premaral, extramaral, and viant sex, cludg homosexual and lbian relatnships, refg to accept the loose moral standards of our society. Most of the 75 people here today are gay. Predomantly gay church, synagogu and other ho of worship are not unmon.

Entire movements are dited to offerg relig worship for gay upl. What sets Potter's Hoe apart is that is predomantly gay and Pentestal, a longstandg relig movement often distguished by s nservatism and s belief speakg tongu nsired to have a spirual source. The Web se of the Assembli of God USA says homosexualy "is a s agast God and mankd.

BAYSI – FIRST PENTESTAL MEGACHURCH CHURCH TO ACCEPT GAYS

The passag speak of same-genr sexual acts, but the acts were much different om the lovg homosexual relatnships he ndon today. Man once was a licensed mister wh the Uned Pentestal Church Internatnal but voluntarily surrenred his license after g out as a gay man 1993 and divorcg his wife 1994.

"Certaly they're not gay-affirmg, " he said.

He was seeg a therapist who suggted that he simply jo a nomatn that accepts gays and lbians, such as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolan Communy Church. But most gay church he knew of were far too liberal their views and too stiff and lurgil their worship for his taste. But homosexualy is seldom mentned durg servic.

BRAZIL: GAY PENTESTAL PASTOR LEADS LARGELY LGBT NGREGATN

"We've had people walk and out of our servic and not even know was a predomantly gay church, " he said. Still, homosexuals know they are accepted here. He was raised a Pentestal church that preached agast homosexualy.

She first joed a Pentestal church when she was about 20, hopg that the charismatic style of praise would help exorcise her homosexualy, which she believed was a monic spir. Raised the Pentestal tradn, 30-year-old Manng was not satisfied the more liberal gay church he was attendg.

THE GAY PREACHER

Some of his fay members believe homosexualy is a s. For him, the Pentestal gay church is a dream. Her gay son persuad her to vis Potter's Hoe eight months ago, and she's been g ever sce.

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The sermon, Ps Rob Buckgham dispelled many of the myths about gay and lbian people and also that the Sodom and Gomorrah story has nothg to do wh homosexualy as we know today. But Gladstone has somethg that most other Pentestal lears don't - a and spoe Fab Inac are -founrs of the Contemporary Christian Church, one of a handful of Pentestal nomatns Brazil that wele gays and lbians wh open arms and was born out of Gladstone's dream to preach "a gospel of love and acceptance for all people. Some Brazilian Pentestal church even offer programs that claim to be pable of "curg" gay so at Contemporary Christian, which this week celebrated s nth anniversary and the openg of s nth branch wh a r, theatril service at a nverted movie theater a grty R neighborhood.

ON BEG GAY THE BLACK PENTESTAL CHURCH

Hunt, 'Pentestal Church and Homosexualy', Adrian Thatcher (ed. More than one sentence ends wh a drawled, “And I will tell you…”On July 27th, Perry will celebrate his 80th birthday, and there’s a long, dramatic life to look back on which at s heart is about how one gay man who cherished his belief and fah God did not believe—as he was nstantly told—that God did not love him bee he was gay. In 1970, Perry’s iend Morris Kight, a gay activist, lled him and asked if he and their iend Reverend Bob Humphri uld e over.

‘WELG, BUT NOT AFFIRMG’: BEG GAY AND CHRISTIAN

The paperwork was duly filled out, and then the Police Commissn asked the men to e to a they arrived, relled Perry, the extremely homophobic then-chief of police, Edward M.

Kight, Perry and Humphri had agreed not to e the word “homosexual, ” to see if they uld get the march passed jt g the MCC’s relled sayg, “That’s fe, but if they start on me, I’m not gog to take any nonsense om the Police Commissn. ”“Fally, I said, ‘I reprent the homosexual muny of L.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

’ Fally, I said, ‘I reprent the homosexual muny of L.

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GAY PRITS AND OTHER BOGEYMEN

The Gay Liberatn Front float featured someone drsed as a fairy on a cross beg ccified by the LAPD, while other people drsed as fairi enacted beg chased by people drsed as members of the LAPD. Troy Perry A group om the then-extremely nservative Orange County rried a sign readg: “Homosexuals for Ronald Reagan” (who was then the state’s ernor).

One woman said to Perry: “I n five them for beg gay, but never for beg for Ronald Reagan. Two female activists joed him, Carole Shepherd, then-Los Angel print of the Dghters of Bilis, and Kelly Weiser of HELP (Homophile Effort for Legal Protectn). Perry admted to Pearl he had slept wh a man, “but didn’t know the word ‘gay’ back then.

IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

” He had read about homosexualy a psych book junr high, “where talked about beg sick, crimal, and wear our mother’s cloth. ”At 19, Perry was exmunited om a church Illois, where the uple were then livg, after he admted beg gay.

”— Troy PerryOne day, at a bookstore, Perry asked if they had any books about homosexualy. He found a physique magaze, some fictn, and Donald Webster Cory’s The Homosexual Ameri. “I read that, and knew whout a shadow of a doubt I was gay.

‘What mak you thk you’re a homosexual? ”A bishop told Perry he would be exmunited, and advised him not to mentn his homosexualy as the reason, but that he had “failed the Lord. In one, she had read that some gay men had “stayed married heterosexually.