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HISTORY

When we see the young men kissing, think of this.

There was a time in my lifetime when the act of coming out was incendiary. This is about the first gay minister. The first to come out publicly.

Haunted Man of the Cloth and Pioneer of Gay Rights

It is a sad story in some ways.

Many of the early pioneers had difficult lives.

But the glory of this life is that his coming out led to the early acceptance of gay rights by the Unitarian Church. The first denomination to do so.

James Stoll. A pioneer and forgotten trailblazer.

Labels: gay history, gay life, gay rights