Coming out in the Catholic Church
By DW
12 April 2022 |
8:09 am
More than 120 priests and employees of the Catholic Church in Germany have come out as queer and launched a campaign demanding an end to discrimination against LGBTQ people. DW met with one of them in Frankfurt.
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