![]() ![]() “Mom was 15, Dad was 16, and they never married,” he wrote in his autobiography, “I Was Born This Way: A Gay Preacher’s Journey Through Gospel Music, Disco Stardom, and a Ministry in Christ” (2010), written with David Ritz. “While his life and spirit may have inspired Lady Gaga’s iconic song ‘Born This Way,’” Barbara Satin, faith work director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, said by email, “his true legacy will be the way he lived and the countless people his ministry impacted.”Ĭarl Bean was born in Baltimore on May 26, 1944. He became a bishop in the church in 1992 and an archbishop in 1999. “People who wanted to think there was no such thing as a gay Black man or a gay Latino had a rude awakening.” “AIDS took the cloak off for the world that homosexuality exists, especially for minorities,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1989. The effort also sought to overcome cultural taboos in minority communities.
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