Axios.net
Title
AXIOS--Los Angeles - Eastern and Orthodox Gay and Lesbian Christians
Description
XIOS is an organization of Eastern & Near Eastern Orthodox, Byzantine & Eastern-rite Catholic Gay & Lesbian lay Christians. The word AXIOS is taken from the Greek liturgical word which describes a truly worthy and deserving person. Members of AXIOS are gay or lesbian people who belong to, or have been educated and reared in, or converted to the Eastern Christian tradition. It often means people of Greek, Slavic, Albanian, Semitic or Armenian heritage. Though AXIOS is a lay organization, bishops, priests and other clergy have also become members.
Twenty year ago, AXIOS was founded in Los Angeles, CA in 1980. Interested gay people in New York established an east-coast branch founded on the same principles as the Californian group. Chapters also have formed in Colorado; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA; Detroit, MI, and Las Vegas, NV. We have also had two chapters outside the U.S., in Canada and Australia. While Roman Catholics and Protestants have had recourse to their own varied support groups, Eastern Christians had none until the founding of AXIOS, an organization in which all may participate who come from various Eastern Christian traditions.
Together we can render support and positive reinforcement based on our common situations: being a religious minority in United States and with that, and above all, a sexual-orientation minority as well. AXIOS was founded in order to address the issue of human sexuality within Eastern Christianity:
Languages
English
Contact
- george battelle
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- Hayward California
- United States 94541
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- 5105381210
Additional Information
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External Links
- Alexa: Axios.net
