Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
Reading at Books Inc.
- When
- Tue Dec 2, 2008
- Where
- Books Inc. in the Castro
- Time
- 7:30pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Book Stores, Gay, Gay Books
Description
Books Inc. on Market is proud to welcome Fr. Donal Godfrey for a reading and signing of his new historical book about the Catholic presence in San Francisco: “Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.” Joining Fr. Donal Godfrey will be three-time Emmy winner and writer Patrick Mulcahey.Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco is in the center of the world’s first gay neighborhood, The Castro, and was the center of the hostility to the arriving gay population in the 1970s. Author Father Donal Godfrey shows how, over time, the old time parishioners, or “the gray,” bonded with the new comers, “the gay,” particularly in a joint compassionate response to the crisis of AIDS. Most Holy Redeemer was changed from a dying parish to a vital place where gay and straight people together created something new.
Father Donal Godfrey shows how this parish became prophetic and compassionate, through conflict and compromise at times; despite opposition from many sources, including the institutionalized homophobia of the church and society.
About the author:
Father Donal Godfrey is executive director of University Ministry at the University of San Francisco.
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