Download or read book The Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I m Gay written by Troy D. Perry and published by Nash Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1972 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not a creature from the outer darkness! I am a homosexual, a man of flesh and blood. And, I have a few things to say..." This is the frank and revealing portrait of a man, the Reverend Troy Perry, pastor and founder of a church, lover of God--and a homosexual. It is a searching account of the plight of homosexuals in a world that scorned, condemned and harassed them while no one dared to cry out in protest--till now! On the heels of nationwide publicity accorded in 1968 to the world's first church to welcome homosexuals, the Metropolitan Community Church of Hollywood, California, Reverend Troy Perry presented this touchingly human autobiography of a young preacher who knew what it was to live life as an outcast. Born in Florida, the eldest of five sons, Perry discovered he was "different" in his early teens. The intensity with which he felt the presence of God in his life came to fruition when his aunt, pastor of a Pentecostal church, had a revelation that God had "laid his hands upon" Troy. From the age of 13 on, the young boy would preach of the Lord. But he was destined to travel a long, hard road of despair and torment. He was "different" in more ways than one. Troy's attempt at leading a straight life by marrying and having children ended in near disaster and an attempt at suicide. Not until he was able to accept who and what he was, and turned to a quest for self-respect and spiritual fulfillment, did he begin to find inner peace and contentment. This is, first and foremost, a biography of a courageous man. But, because of his very nature, it is also a semi-sociological study of life in a world saddled with archaic sex laws. Was homosexuality a legitimate way of life? Were the tales people had heard about "gay" men and women actualities or myths? Perry pulled no punches. His revelations were sometimes shocking. He made no attempt to milk the reader for sympathy. He merely "tells it like it is" in simple, unpretentious, and honest language. "l am a human being first, who believes that sexual orientation should be no more important as a standard for judging a person than knowing how one makes a living or combs his hair."--Adapted from jacket.
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Download or read book The Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I m Gay written by Troy D. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I m Gay written by Troy D. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Th Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I m Gay written by Troy D. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lord is my shepherd he knows I m gay written by Troy D. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Troy d. Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church Pastor and a homosexual.
Download or read book The Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I m Gay The Autobiography of the Rev Troy D Perry As Told to Charles L Lucas With a Foreword by Mrs Edith Perry written by Troy D. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baby You are My Religion written by Marie Cartier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby, You Are My Religion argues that American butch-femme bar culture of the mid-20th Century should be interpreted as a sacred space for its community. Before Stonewall—when homosexuals were still deemed mentally ill—these bars were the only place where many could have any community at all. Baby, You are My Religion explores this community as a site of a lived corporeal theology and political space. It reveals that religious institutions such as the Metropolitan Community Church were founded in such bars, that traditional and non-traditional religious activities took place there, and that religious ceremonies such as marriage were often conducted within the bars by staff. Baby, You are My Religion examines how these bars became not only ecclesiastical sites but also provided the fertile ground for the birth of the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights before Stonewall.
Download or read book Not in This Family written by Heather Murray and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Family challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Historian Heather Murray gives voice to gays and their parents through an extensive use of introspective writings, particularly personal correspondence and diaries, as well as through published memoirs, fiction, poetry, song lyrics, movies, and visual and print media. Starting in the late 1940s and 1950s, Not in This Family covers the entire postwar period, including the gay liberation and lesbian feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the establishment of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Ending her story with an examination of contemporary coming-out rituals, Murray shows how the personal that was once private became political and, finally, public. In exploring the intimate, reciprocal relationship of gay children and their parents, Not in This Family also chronicles larger cultural shifts in privacy, discretion and public revelation, and the very purpose of family relations. Murray shows that private bedrooms and consumer culture, social movements and psychological fashions, all had a part to play in transforming the modern family.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Homosexuality written by Wayne R. Dynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book’s original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality, and, reaching beyond questions of physical sexuality, they examine the effects of homophilia and homophobia on literature, art, religion, science, law, philosophy, society, and history. Many of the writings were considered to be controversial, and often contradictory, at that time, and refer to issues and difficulties that still exist today. This volume contains entries from A-L.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures written by Bonnie Zimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 1955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavors. It covers a long history and a dynamic and ever changing present, while opening up the academic profession to new scholarship and new ways of thinking. A groundbreaking new approach While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written for and by a wide range of people Intended as a reference for students and scholars in all fields, as well as for the general public, the encyclopedia is written in user-friendly language. At the same time it maintains a high level of scholarship that incorporates both passion and objectivity. It is written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new scholars, whose research continues to advance gender studies into the future.
Download or read book Marriage Equality written by William N. Eskridge, Jr. and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the marriage equality debate in the United States, praised by Library Journal as "beautifully and accessibly written. . . . An essential work.” As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same‑sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America’s marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person’s ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one‑sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures written by George Haggerty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavors. It covers a long history and a dynamic and ever changing present, while opening up the academic profession to new scholarship and new ways of thinking. A groundbreaking new approach While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written for and by a wide range of people Intended as a reference for students and scholars in all fields, as well as for the general public, the encyclopedia is written in user-friendly language. At the same time it maintains a high level of scholarship that incorporates both passion and objectivity. It is written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new scholars, whose research continues to advance gender studies into the future.
Download or read book The Gay Gospel written by Joe Dallas and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of A Strong Delusion, author and counselor Joe Dallas helps readers understand what pro-gay theology is and how to confront it. In a biblical manner, Dallas examines believers' personal responses and the need for bold love and commitment as they become familiar with the movement's background and beliefs study a clear, scriptural response to each belief extend Christ's love to those living the homosexual lifestyle This resource is an important one for those who have been unsure how to respond to the growing acceptance of homosexuality in the evangelical community. It offers the balance between conviction and compassion and a practical guide to communicating with those who have embraced the pro-gay Christian movement.
Download or read book Lesbians Gays the Empowerment Perspective written by Carol Thorpe Tully and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers practical applications for the social worker and client at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels. Eye-opening case studies are provided for each age group and cover everything from defining problems, identifying the underlying issues causing them, understanding the role of homophobia, and the application of the empowerment perspective.
Download or read book From Jesus to J Setting written by Sandra Lynn Barnes and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jesus to J-Setting details the experiences of Black people with diverse sexual identities from ages eighteen to thirty years old. The work examines how the intersection of racial, sexual, gender, and religious identities influence self-expression and lifestyle modalities in this understudied, often hidden population, by exploring how racial, sexual, and religious dynamics play out. Voices in the book illuminate a continuum of decisions—from more traditional (i.e., Black church participation) to nontraditional (i.e., dancing known as J-Setting and spirituality)—and the corresponding beliefs, values, and experiences that emerge under the ever-present specter of racism, homophobia, heterosexism, and for many, ageism. Drawing upon sociology, sociology of religion, black studies, queer studies, inequality, stratification, and cultural studies, Sandra Lynn Barnes explores the everyday lives of young Black people with fluid sexual identities and their everyday forms of individual as well as collective resistance.
