Escaping God's closet : the revelations of a queer priest / Bernard Duncan Mayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayes, Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayes, Bernard.

Episcopal Church--Clergy--Biography.

Episcopal Church.

Ex-clergy--United States--Biography.

Ex-clergy.

Gay clergy--United States--Biography.

Gay clergy.

Clergy.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Episcopal Church--Clergy--Biography.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Summary:

"He has been a broadcaster for the BBC, helped organize the Public Broadcasting System in America, and was a founding chairman of National Public Radio. He designed and directed the first system of suicide and crisis counseling centers in California (a model for later centers nationwide) and helped found the Parsonage, an Episcopalian ministry to the gay community in the Castro section of San Francisco. And all the while, Bernard Duncan Mayes struggled to reconcile his views on sexuality - and his experience as a gay man - with his theological and cultural beliefs. Throughout Escaping God's Closet, Mayes recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system, but led him to revelations about sexuality, Christianity, and the nature of human existence itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Ghosts

The pit

The cook

Love's slave

The body

Mass magic

The box

The village

He-men

Help!

The cauldron

Watershed

The lyceum

Chemistry

Confromtation

To be!

Catastrophe

The drawing board

The march

The soup.

Notes:

Includes index.

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.

Lambda Literary Awards - Spirituality, Winner, 2002

ISBN:

0813920043

9780813920047

OCLC:

44578896