Late Task Force Co-Founder Profiled in Gay City News
Task Force co-founder Father Robert Carter was profiled this week in Gay City News. Carter, an out gay Jesuit Catholic priest, served on the charter board of the Task Force in 1973 and was an outspoken faith leader in the New York City LGBT community. Carter, 82, recently passed away.
“Carter was a foot soldier for the early Task Force as well as one of its leaders, standing outside the Eagle Bar in Chelsea each Sunday to collect a dollar cover charge from each patron for the group. He marched in pride parades in his clerical collar and was noted at Dignity— where I was a member from 1975-82 and became his friend — for his inspiring sermons. While saying Mass, he often wore a denim stole. He testified for the city’s gay rights bill at tumultuous City Council hearings until it passed in 1986.”
Read the full Gay City News piece here.
