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Cowboys, Armageddon, and the truth : how a gay child was saved from religion / Scott M. Terry.
LIBRA BX8526.5 .T47 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terry, Scott M., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terry, Scott M., 1964-.
- Terry, Scott M.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Controversial literature.
- Jehovah's Witnesses.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--United States--Biography.
- Christian gay people--United States--Biography.
- Christian gay people.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Controversial literature.
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Maple Shade, NJ : Lethe Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child Was Saved from Religion offers an illuminating glimpse into a child's sequestered world of abuse, homophobia, and religious extremism. Scott Terry's memoir is a compelling, poignant and occasionally humorous look into the Jehovah's Witness faith-a religion that refers to itself as The Truth-and a brave account of Terry's successful escape from a troubled past. At the age of ten, Terry had embraced the Witnesses' prediction that the world will come to an end in 1975 and was preparing for Armageddon. As an adolescent, he prayed for God to strip away his growing attraction to other young men. But by adulthood, Terry found himself no longer believing in the promised apocalypse. Through a series of adventures and misadventures, he left the Witness religion behind and became a cowboy, riding bulls in the rodeo. He overcame the hurdles of parental abuse, religious extremism, and homophobia and learned that Truth is a concept of honesty rather than false righteousness, a means to live a life openly, for Terry as a gay man.
- Contents:
- Horse trading
- I'm a bad kid and so are you
- On the move
- The truth
- The house of Fluffy
- A final escape to Orland
- Run to the hills
- Sixth grade
- One down, one to go
- People in hell want ice water
- Blow jobs and car sex
- The epiphanies
- Bending morality
- It's over
- or just begun
- depends
- On how you look at it
- The road to Vegas
- Aunt Dot
- Coming out
- Lots of good things
- The point of this story.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 9781590213667
- 1590213661
- OCLC:
- 803467712
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