Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish
Gays and Grays tells the story of a unique Catholic parish. Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco is in the center of the world's first gay neighborhood, The Castro. This parish was the center of the hostility to the arriving gay population in the 1970s; but paradoxically was itself transformed into a welcoming parish. The old time parishioners, "the gray," bonded with the new comers, "the gay, " particularly in a joint compassionate response to the crisis of AIDS. A charismatic pastor,...
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This book tells the story of a unique Catholic Parish, Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco. The story tells how the original parishioners (the gray) accepted the new gay community, especially in response to the AIDS epidemic.
Acknowledgements ixThe First Eighty Years 1Father Anthony McGuire, Pastor 27Bearing Witness in the Hour of AIDS 65Father Zachary Shore 101A Queer Sanctuary 123Appendix 171Bibliography 173Index 189
