Once a suicide, Beam was known as a beacon of light in the LGBTQ Church movement because he learned and practiced two spiritual values: 'know thyself' and 'to thine own self be true.'

Once a suicide, Beam was known as a beacon of light in the LGBTQ Church movement because he learned and practiced two spiritual values: 'know thyself' and 'to thine own self be true.'

Archbishop Carl Bean, ‘beacon of light’ in LGBTQ church movement and AIDS activism, dies. LATimes, BY MARISSA EVANS, GREGORY YEE
SEPT. 9, 2021.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-09/archbishop-carl-bean-founder-of-lgbtq-church-movement-and-aids-dies-after-lengthy-illness