[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Metropolitan Community Church, Jeff Rock, PFLAG China, Indian lit, Satanism

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• Hornet Stories looks at the long history of the explicitly LGBTQ-friendly Metropolitan Community Church.


• Jeff Rock will be the new pastor of Toronto's Metropolitan Community Church congregation, after Brent Hawkes. The Toronto Star reports.


• Quartz reports on a PFLAG China cruise, featuring queer people and their parents.


• Little India reports on the emerging field of gay literature in India, prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction.


• The Satanic Temple of Seattle is commissioning anti-gay bakers to bake them pro-Satanism cakes. Religious freedom, right? Bustle tells the story.