Other Sheep - Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities

Annotated
Bibliography

on this page...

Personal
Stories

Personal Stories

Leroy Aaron, Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Son,
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.
This is a mother's story about the violent consequences of a her son's inability to deal with the
pressures of being gay, his suicide, and how she overcame her homophobic programming by the
church.

Marc Adams, Preacher's Son, Windows Books, 1996.
Adams, the gay son of a fundamentalist baptist minister, narrates his tale how he came out of
fundamentalist Christianity to find himself.

Susan Bergman, Anonymity: The Secret Life of an American Family, New York, Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux, 1994.
Bergman's account of growing up with a highly closeted father in Separatist Baptist churches and the
lie of the closet affect those closest to the closeted indiviudal.

Malcom Boyd, Gay Priest: An Inner Journey, New York, St. martin's Press, 1987.
Boyd narrates his painful spiritual journey as a gay man wanting to be a priest and the church's
demand to lie about his life.

Malcolm Boyd & Nancy L. Wilson (eds), Amazing Grace, Crossings, 1991.
A fine anthology of coming out stories.

J. Michael Clark, A Lavender Cosmic Pilgrim, Garland, Tangelwuld Press, 1990.
An autobiographical account of Clark's struggle to gain scholarly recognition within the heterosexual
world.

Louie Crew (ed), A Book of Revelations, New York, Integrity, 1991.
Crew collects 52 biographies of lesbigay Episcopalians.

Rosemary Curb & Nancy Manhan, Lesbian Nuns, Breaking Silence, Tallahassee, Naiad Press, 1985.
Fifty one lesbian nuns speak about their struggles in realizing their attractions and the joy of convent
living.

Antonio Feliz, Out of the Bishop's Closet, (second edition), San Francisco, Alamo Square Press,
1992.
This is a story of a Mormon clergy who was excommunicated for coming out. Feliz traces the origin of
Mormon homophobia back to Brigham Young and he practice of polygamy.

James Ferry, In the Courts of the Lord: A Gay Priest's Story, New York, Crossroads Publications,
1994.
This coming out story of a Canadian Anglican priest who had refused to face issues of his sexual
attractions and his maltreatment by the church.

Chris Glaser, Uncommon Calling: A Gay Man's Struggle to Serve the Church, San Francisco, Harper
& Row, 1988.
Glaser describes his personal journey of coming out, how the church aversely reacted to his
openness, and his ongoing commitment to a minstry of reconciliation.

Raymond C Holtz (ed), Listen to the Stories: Gay and Lesbian Catholics talk about their lives and the
Church, New York, Garland, 1991.
Another of anthology of gay/lesbian Catholic stories.

Howard Hannon, Agony in the Garden: The Story of a Gay Minister, Portland, OutWrite Publishing,
1996.
The coming out story of a Presbyterian clergy and his journey to sexual awakening.

Bernard Lynch, A Priest on Trial, London, Bloomsbury, 1993.
A powerful story of a Catholic priest falsely accused of child abuse because of ministry to gays and
people living with AIDS and his journey into exile as a priest.

Troy Perry, The Lord is My Shepherd and He knows that I'm Gay, Los Angelos, UFMMC Press, 1972.
Perry's biography on how he came to find God's grace in being gay and how he founded the
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.

Troy Perry & Thomas Swicegood, Don't Be Afriad Anymore, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990.
The spiritual and personal memoirs of Troy Perry who was thrown out of his church for being and
who heard God's call to found the Universal Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Churches.

Mark Thompson (ed), Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature, HarperSanFrancisco,
1994.
Thompson interviews sixteen spiritual writers, healers, teachers, and visionaries.

Leanne McCall Tigert, Coming Out While Stayingg In: Struggles and Celebrations of Lesbians, Gays,
and Bisexuals in the Church, Detroit, United Church Press, ??/
Tigert tells her struggle with the church as a source of oppression and how she found spiritual
renewal. She develops a liberative strategy for transforming congregations into communities of
justice.

Ezekiel Wright & Daniel Inesse, God is Gay, (second edition) Tayu Press, 1982.
A moving narrative of a yong man's search for spiritual answers to being gay.

Zalmos O. Sherwood, Kairos: Confessions of a Gay Priest, Boston, ALyson Publications, 1987.
An Episcopal priest chronicles his struggles in facing his gay orientation.

Elizabeth Stuart (ed), Chosen: Gay Catholic Priests Tell Their Stories, London, G. Chapman, 1993.
Gay Catholic priests tell their stories of struggles.

Mel White, Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America, New York, Simon & Schuster,
1994.
The ghosterwriter for Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham tells his story of coming out.

James G. Wolf (ed), Gay Priests, San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1989.
Autobiographical stories of Catholic priests that point out that gayness and priesthood are not
mutually exclusive. A must for Catholic bishops and laity.

B. Zanotti (ed), A Faith of One's Own: Explorations of Catholic Lesbians, Trumansburg, The
Crossing Press, 1986.
Anthology of Catholic lesbians trying to reconcile their Catholic and lesbian identities