Joseph Doucé Explained

Joseph Doucé
Birth Date:13 April 1945
Birth Place:Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Death Date:c. July 1990
Death Place:Paris, France
Death Cause:Homicide
Occupation:Psychologist
Known For:Victim of unsolved murder

Joseph Doucé (April 13, 1945 –)[1] was born to a rural family in Sint-Truiden, Belgium.[2] He was a psychologist and a (defrocked) Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay[3] and was among the founders of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. He served as a volunteer soldier in the NATO base at Limoges, France, where he had time to perfect his French. After one year of pastoral and humanistic studies at Stenonius College (also known as Europaseminär, a Roman Catholic seminary today extinct) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conversion to Protestantism around 1966.

His Centre du Christ Libérateur was a ministry to sexual minorities. The center had support groups for homosexuals, transsexuals, sadomasochists and pedophiles.

Death

Doucé was killed and the murder has never been solved.[4] According to Doucé's lover, he was taken away by two men, who showed police badges on July 19, 1990. The body was found in a forest in October 1990.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hommage au pateur Joseph Doucé assassiné en 1990.. syndromedebenjamin.free.fr. 2019-10-20.
  2. Web site: Joseph Doucé Profiles LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. lgbtqreligiousarchives.org. 2019-10-20.
  3. Web site: Google Translate. translate.google.com. 2019-10-20.
  4. Book: Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility. Zabus. Chantal. Coad. David. 2013-11-26. Routledge. 9781135135973. en.
  5. Web site: Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Memorial Hall - Doucé 1. andrejkoymasky.com. 2019-10-20.