What is in Kelvin's Head?

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    I got back to Glasgow last night just as the Pink List was being published by the Independent on Sunday and was thrilled to see my name there again – I’ve been listed for the last couple of years.

    Even better is that I’m not the only cleric on it this year – Jeffrey John and Richard Coles are also there.

    I am, as before, amazed by the company that I keep on the list – this time more diverse and a better gender-balance. The place of LGBT people in the world is changing. Too slowly for me, but it is changing with each passing year.

    There are plenty of people who wish I’d shut up about LGBT issues and that is not limited to those who disagree with me. The Pink List is a rare moment of affirmation and I’m hugely moved, as in previous years, to find myself upon it.

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9 responses to “The Syrian Lesbian Blogger Story”

  1. Eddie Green Avatar
    Eddie Green

    You are real?!

    I am very tempted to produce a spoof blog post ‘outing’ various Christian bloggers. I suspect at least one of them actually is a Syrian lesbian …

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  2. Rosemary Hannah Avatar
    Rosemary Hannah

    Oddly enough I was talking to somebody last week who struggled to believe it. I kind-of basked in your reflected glory.

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  3. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Amusingly, The Times claimed that the sapphic poetry was, in restrospect, something of a giveaway! I’ve never deliberately read a lot of lesbian poetry, but the dude’s attempts seemed plausible to me (in contrast to his using Scottishisms like “wee small hours”)

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  4. Blair Robertson Avatar
    Blair Robertson

    Kelvin! You’re an out gay priest …. you never said!

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      Ain’t no further out to go, Blair.

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  5. Beth Avatar
    Beth

    And yet the press insist on telling us, every time they write about you, that you have come out. As if it’s a shocking new development.

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      I know. It must be because nothing else much is happening in the world, Beth.

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  6. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Michael Stipe went through a period of being outed by the UK press every two years or so for over a decade; you are, at least, in good company 😉

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