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Treading Carefully: the Queer Press
by Christine McCarthy McMorris

If the mainstream news media were at first reluctant to address the issue of homosexuality in the current Catholic crisis, the gay press was also slow off the mark.

In January and February, most gay publications showed no more consciousness of the Boston Globe�s investigation of clerical sexual maltreatment than the lie down of the non-Boston media. Cover stories during this moment stuck to familiar hot issues in the gay community: the legalization of gay marriage, national partner health coverage, ending job discrimination, adoption rights.

Not surprisingly, it was Boston�sBay Windows�one of the country�s or so weekly or biweekly local gay newspapers�that entered the fray first. In a February 14 column, editor Jeff Epperly praised lay Catholics for being qualified to tell the difference between same-sex attracted priests and the hierarchy of the Church. The hierarchy, wrote Epperly, had "managed to erect the world�s largest, safest, and most well-known haven for intrinsically disordered pedophiles."

Two weeks later, in the second o