Church Must Facilitate Faith and Sexuality Conversations, Urges Malaysian Gay Catholic
A gay Catholic in Malaysia has urged the church to better host and facilitate conversations about faith and sexuality in his home country.
Grace Doerfler (she/her) is a senior at the University of Notre Dame, where she studies history and Africana studies. She is originally from Pittsburgh, PA.
A gay Catholic in Malaysia has urged the church to better host and facilitate conversations about faith and sexuality in his home country.
An oral history project gathering the stories of queer Catholics is underway at the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion at the Pacific School of Religion, California.
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