From
Michael S. Rose’s “Goodbye! Good Men: How Catholic Seminaries Turned Away Two
Generations of Vocations from the Priesthood” (2002) (pp. 209-210):
[Father
William H. Hinds] related that homosexuality was looked upon kindly at
[Cincinnati’s] Athenaeum. “There was a
group of seminarians,” he explained by way of example, “who would be sitting
around watching the television show ‘Falcon Crest’, and every time one
particular actress came on camera they would whoop and shriek and do all this
kind of stuff – acting effeminate, imitating the woman.”
. . .
Hinds
also recalled another incident: he complained about a fellow seminarian hanging
a large poster of transvestite pop singer Boy George on the outside of the door
to his dormitory room. “Anybody who’s
walking along the hallway would see this picture of Boy George with the eye
shadow and painted face,” he explained, “so I brought it up one time in a
meeting. How is everyone going to know
that is not the door to *my* room? Then,
to make my point I said, why don’t I take that poster and put it on the
rector’s door? Would *that* be
appropriate, I asked? I got called to
the carpet for that.”
. . .
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