Our first afternoon presenter at #Outreach2021 is Fr. Bryan Massingale of @Fordham University speaking on "Intersectionality and LGBTQ Catholic Ministry," addressing the challenges of LGBTQ people of color. "How do experiences of race and ethnic identity influence LGBTQ people?" 
Fr. Bryan is now sharing with participants his coming out as a "Black gay man of faith."
Fr. Bryan talking about a tearful realization during a retreat, which challenged him deeply and angered him: "I realized that I didn't really believe that God could be imaged as Black and gay. And certainly not both simultaneously."
Fr. Bryan's challenge: "Living in a world where Catholic means straight and LGBTQ means white." #Outreach2021
Erasure: We silence and erase the reality of who they are in all their complexity.
Fr. Bryan: For many LGBTQ people of color: Coming out means risking not only family but religious identity. And it means a loss of family community and support, as well as cultural estrangement from "my people" with no guarantee of acceptance from the white community.
Fr. Bryan talking about racism and objectification within the LGBTQ community itself. Sometimes the assumption is "LGBTQ means white." LGBTQ people of color are both "erased" and "hypervisible."
Fr. Bryan: A fundamental Judeo-Christian belief is that all people have dignity. And all means all. No one is an afterthought in the view of the Creator.
Fr Bryan Massingale: "#LGBTQ history is impossible without queer persons of color." Including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, as well as many other homeless persons of color. #Outreach2021 #pride #Pride2021
Fr. Bryan: "If you only accept part of me, then you are not accepting me." #Outreach2021 #Pride2021
Fr. Bryan: "Being an LGBTQ person of color is not just an experience of pain and trauma, it is one of joy. My ongoing joy is to see my Black, gay self as beloved of God." #Outreach2021 #Pride2021
Fr. Bryan on clergy "coming out." Distinguish between "coming out" and "coming out publicly." First understand your motivation. When one comes out in a public way it is a vocation, giving witness for young people and the church, and not to "work out" one's psychological "stuff."
Fr. Bryan Massingale: "All lives matter WHEN Black and LGBTQ lives matter. Until those lives that are most at risk are valued then all lives won't matter." #Pride2021 #pride #BLM #Outreach2021
Fr. Bryan: "Not all white people are racists. But far too many are cowards." #OUTREACH2021
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