Thu, 12 Sept
|LEAP Centre Birgu
Faith-Based Talk: From Riots to Rainbows - 50 Years since Stonewall
It has been fifty years from the Stonewall Riots that were a pivotal landmark in the long struggle for LGBTI+ persons rights and dignity. We may be tempted to think that this milestone was completely 'secular' and possibly even allergic to faith.
Time & Location
12 Sept 2019, 19:30
LEAP Centre Birgu, St Edward St, Birgu, Malta
Guests
About the event
On the occasion of Pride 2019, Drachma will be organising this event on Thursday 12 September 2019.
It has been fifty years from the Stonewall Riots that were a pivotal landmark in the long struggle for LGBTI+ persons rights and dignity. We may be tempted to think that this milestone was completely 'secular' and possibly even allergic to faith.
This could not be further from the truth, for months before the Stonewall Rights, individual Catholic LGBT persons began what today is one of America's largest Catholic faith LGBTI+ movement: Dignity USA. Over the decades, LGBTI persons of faith around the world worked hard to create awareness and safe spaces for LGBTI+ persons. These have included ecumenical spaces like the European Forum of Christian LGBTI+ Persons, the Global Interfaith Network and on a Catholic level, the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics that recently held its third General Assembly in Chicago.