FIFTY YEARS AGO

I’ve been listening to the WNYC programs commemorating the events at Stonewall on June 28, 1969, and the stories of people who were in same-sex relationships in the 1960s and even the 1970s and 80s made me consider how blind I was about the discrimination toward men and women who lived lives totally different than mine.  

It was the AIDS crisis that made me aware of the disparate and even fearful and hateful treatment people in same sex relationships suffered. And over the years our society has become more cognizant of the many issues faced by the LGBTI+ communities, for they are different communities. 

––Pastor Joyce