From The New York Times:
Pope Leo has spent most of his career in rural Peru and has never drawn wide attention for his positions on those issues. But reports that he had made scattered comments in the past that were critical of gay and transgender people had left some in the L.G.B.T.Q. community nervously reading the tea leaves on Thursday.
Mr. DeBernardo said he thought L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics should take a “wait and see approach” to Pope Leo, who he said had never really appeared on his organization’s radar in its years of closely tracking the positions of church leaders. Still, he said it was worrying that Leo had made unfriendly remarks in the past, including a 2012 speech in which he criticized the positive portrayal of the “homosexual lifestyle” in the Western media, which he said fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel.”