Loving women/loving men;: Gay liberation and the church

The authors are: the first affirmed Gay male ordained in the history of the Christian Church and a Lesbian-feminist-teacher within the Lutheran and Methodist traditions, and hence well qualified to outline the growing conflict between Gay people and organized religion. Consisting of five essays with four contributors, this book is a timely history of Gay/ church confrontation in the 1960s. Published a year after American Psychiatric Association officially removed homosexuality from its catalogue of mental disorders in 1973, one senses the hope the authors have in the eventual liberalisation of the church and the affirmation of human sexuality. The first essay by Donald Kuhn gave an account of a consultation which resulted in the founding of the Council of Religion and the Homosexual in 1964. The second essay is the fine scholarship of the Reverend Robert L. Treese's biblical perspective. The third essay by the authors sought to explain the gay church movement. The last two essays were positions and perspectives of the authors being gay and lesbian respectively. History should not be forgotten. We cannot appreciate where we are if we do not know where we came from. This book is for anybody who is curious about the gay liberation movement in the church or is a Christian, whatever the denomination.