Joseph Doucé
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Joseph Doucé (13 April 1945 – Template:Circa)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was born to a rural family in Sint-Truiden, Belgium.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was a psychologist and a (defrocked) Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.Template:Cn The centre had support groups for homosexuals, transsexuals, sadomasochists and pedophiles.
Death
Doucé was killed and the murder has never been solved.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> According to Doucé's lover, he was taken away by two men, who showed police badges on 19 July 1990. The body was found in a forest in October 1990.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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