GAY EPISCOPAL PRIEST HONORED BY LAMBDA FOUNDATION

Gay Episcopal priest, Malcolm Boyd, author of newly released Samuel Joseph for President: Media, Politics, Religion, Race  (KenArnoldBooks), and best-seller, Are You Running With Me, Jesus?, will receive a Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation in Los Angeles on May 29, 2008. His partner, Mark Thompson, will also be honored for his writings on gay spirituality. Boyd and Thompson were the first gay couple whose union was blessed by a sitting bishop in the Episcopal Church.

The first openly gay Episcopal priest, author of 29 books, freedom rider, civil rights and antiwar activist, 85-year-old Boyd continues to serve as a priest in the Episcopal Church. He came out as gay thirty-five years before the controversial election of Gene Robinson as a gay Episcopal bishop, and has been steadfast as an advocate for social justice ever since. Lambda is honoring him as an author and gay activist.  See GAY EPISCOPAL PRIEST HONORED BY LAMBDA FOUNDATION