Looking at the arc of Graham’s public ministry, from the 1950's to the present, the outpouring of grief has overlooked his damaging and damning messages toward and about LGBTQ Americans.
And the LGBTQ community will not be silent in this moment of public mourning. For example, Craig Coogan, executive director of the world-renown Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, wrote the Boston Globe for not mentioning Graham’s decades-long religious vitriol spewed at the LGBTQ community.
"I was disappointed that the Rev. Billy Graham’s long track record of homophobic and antigay statements was not included in an otherwise comprehensive review of his life in last week’s obituary (“Billy Graham, ‘America’s pastor,’ dies at 99,” Page A1, Feb. 22).”