Joseph Doucé
Joseph Doucé was born to a rural family in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. He was a psychologist and a Baptist pastor in Paris. He was openly gay 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 in Maastricht, the Netherlands, he began his conversion to Protestantism around 1966.
His Centre du Christ Libérateur was a ministry to sexual minorities. The centre had support groups for homosexuals, transsexuals, sadomasochists and pedophiles.