Queer Eye's Karamo Brown Angers Some With Salvation Army Partnership

'Queer Eye' star Karamo Brown announced Monday he is teaming with the Salvation Army for its "Rescue Christmas" effort aimed at providing food, shelter, and gifts to needy families. A celebrity promoting a charity is not very newsworthy, but Brown — a gay TV star on a show promoting LGBTQ+ acceptance — partnering with the Christian-affiliated Salvation Army has raised eyebrows, and even ire.

Comments underneath Brown's tweet harangue the television personality for lending his name to the Salvation Army, with many branding the organization as "anti-LGBTQ." The organization, launched in London in 1865, has a long history of hostility towards queer people ...

As ‘Out’ (a sister publication of The Advocate) reported, in 1986, the New Zealand branch of the Salvation Army collected signatures in favor of retaining the criminalization of homosexuality. In 2012, the organization suggested that gay Christians pursue celibacy “as a way of life,” explaining, "a relationship between same-sex individuals is a personal choice ... But from a church viewpoint, we see that going against the will of God."

The following year, the Salvation Army was found to be referring online visitors to conversion therapy groups.

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