Season 3, Episode 3: The Stained Glass Closet

How do you come out in a religious community that loves you conditionally? What do you tell yourself about your faith and your desires when your Church views your sexuality as disordered? In this episode of Sexing History, we focus on the experiences of three gay men who were priests or seminarians in the St. Louis diocese beginning in the 1990s. Their overlapping stories, their friendships, their faith, and the ways in which they came out to themselves and each other within Catholic institutions, speak to the intertwined histories of desire and devotion. Hosts and Creators: Gillian Frank and Lauren Gutterman Senior Producer: Saniya Lee Ghanoui Producer and Story Editor: Rebecca Davis Assistant Producers: Stephen Colbrook and Mallory Szymanski Research Associates: Katie Kenny and Felix Yeung. Interns: Hugh MacNeil, Ian McCabe and Emily Vaughn. Thank you to Brian McNaught, Gary Meier, Phil Tiemeyer, and Jeff Vomund for sharing their stories with us. To learn more about our podcast, please visit us at If you enjoyed this episode, please review us on iTunes and share us on social media.

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Season 3, Episode 3: The Stained Glass Closet is an episode from Sexing History by Gillian Frank & Lauren Gutterman.

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This episode was published on Dec 2, 2020.

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