Joseph Doucé (13 April 1945 – ) was born to a rural family in

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, Belgium. He was a

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and a (defrocked)

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. He was openly gay and was among the founders of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. He served as a volunteer soldier in the

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base at

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, 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

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. The centre had support groups for homosexuals,

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s, sadomasochists and

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Death

Doucé was killed and the

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has never been solved. According to Doucé's lover, he was taken away by two men, who showed

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badges on 19 July 1990. The body was found in a forest in October 1990.

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