Future Black Church Will Reckon With LGBT Legacy

There was so much loss. Rumors and gossip were in the atmosphere. The hushed conversations and whispers felt unavoidable. These rumors, this gossip, is the reason I didn't want to be a musician of the infamous Hammond B-3 organ or be a choir director, though I had an affinity for and joy in this music. Because, even at a young age, I was able to sense a relationship between the genius musicians performing those chord progressions, the flamboyant choir directors moving the congregation, the quiet conversations I only heard in snippets about their supposed sinfulness.