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Stranger at the gate : to be gay and Christian in America /

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Few issues divide our country more dangerously today than does the question of homosexuality and the conflict between the concept of family values and the individual rights of gays and lesbians. Families are divided, careers are ruined, lives are lost - all in the struggle between beliefs founded in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Mel, 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [1994]
Subjects:
White, Mel, > 1940-
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches > Clergy > Biography.
Christian gay people > United States > Biography.
Gay men > Religious life > United States.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Religious right > United States.
United States > Moral conditions.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects.
Homosexuels masculins > États-Unis > Vie religieuse.
Homosexualité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Droite religieuse > États-Unis.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
Clergy.
Gay men > Religious life.
Moral conditions.
Religious right.
United States.
The Religious right and homophobia
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning
  • The ghost of the silence
  • Adolescence
  • The ghost of fear
  • High school
  • The ghost of loneliness
  • College
  • The ghost of false hope
  • 1962-64, learning to tell the truth
  • 1964-70, learning about friendship
  • 1970-80, taking the first steps toward integrity
  • 1980-81, facing reality
  • 1981, surviving infatuation and isolation
  • 1982-83, "It's going to be all right, dad!"
  • 1984-90, giving up the ghost!
  • 1990-91, one last year of silence
  • 1991-93, a ghost no more!
  • 1993-94, time for doing justice!
  • Appendix: Six letters to the religious right.