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 Burton Bagby Development Team Chairperson A licensed American Baptist minister, Burton is a Sunday School leader at Houston’s South Main Baptist Church along with Ron Grose, his partner of 18 years. South Main is a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship congregation. Burton is also a member of Covenant Church, an ecumenical liberal American Baptist congregation that joined AWAB several years ago. Burton is currently a master of divinity student at Andover Newton Theological School, the first seminary to join AWAB, and the only officially welcoming and affirming American Baptist seminary. He previously worked for the U.S. House of Representatives. As a GLBT equality advocate, he is a co-founder of the Houston GLBT Community Center and a former president of the Center as well as the Houston GLBT Political Caucus. He founded the Old Sixth Ward Community Development Corporation, an affordable housing provider and advocacy group, for which he received a Hammer Award from Vice President Al Gore. He has organized several of the Houston GLBT Pride Interfaith Worship Services as well as World AIDS Day Interfaith Worship Services. He and Ron Grose live in Westbury, a heavily gay southwest Houston neighborhood, with Roosevelt, their Scottish terrier and their cat Chatté. Bagby’s 77 year old uncle has also lived with them for the past two years. Bagby loves working out at the gym and is an avid reader. |
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