Top 10 local LGBTQ news stories of 2024
It was another busy year in local queer news, with everything from a string of brutal hate crimes to the impending sentencing of one-time local advocate Ruby Corado making news.
Here then are the Blade’s picks for the top 10 local stories of 2024. #10 Gay Episcopal minister reinstated 40 years after being defrocked In a development he calls a miracle, the Rev.
Harry Stock, who was defrocked from his position as an Episcopal priest 40 years ago by church officials in West Virginia after they learned he was gay and entered a holy union with his male partner, was officially reinstated as an Episcopal priest at an Oct.
26 ceremony at an Episcopal church in Alexandria, Va. In an invitation to the ceremony that Stock sent to friends and associates, he said the ceremony would take place 43 years after he was ordained as an Episcopal priest by a bishop in Charleston, W.Va., and 40 years after the same bishop defrocked him from the priesthood because he “declared his love for another man at the altar” in a holy union ceremony. #9 D.C.
