Wrestling with the angel : faith and religion in the lives of gay men / edited by Brian Bouldrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouldrey, Brian, editor.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Homosexuality.

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Homosexuality--Religious aspects.

Gay men--Religious life--United States.

Gay men.

Gay men--Religious life.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 314 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, 1995.

Summary:

In Wrestling with the Angel, twenty-one authors - gay men who are Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, and Mormon - explore in moving and powerful essays the paradox at the center of their faiths: If God creates each of us in His own image, then how can that image be "wrong"? In vivid descriptions of their paths toward spiritual and sexual identity, such eloquent contributors as David Plante, Mark Doty, Lev Raphael, Alfred Corn, Andrew Holleran, Frank Browning, Michael Nava, Brad Gooch, Fenton Johnson, and Felice Picano reveal the joys and frustrations of communicating with one's excommunicator or, in some cases, of constructing a faith of one's own. Heightened by the urgency of this brutal age of AIDS, their essays are both intensely personal and partisan. They rise off the page like rambunctious prayers, reflecting not only the spiritual hunger brought on by the new millennium, but also the fact that we can no more choose our God than we can our sexuality.

Contents:

Sweet chariot / Mark Doty

My father's house / Don Belton

To be a Jew / Lev Raphael

Naming the addiction / Vestal McIntyre

Saved / James Morrison

The sense of sin / Andrew Holleran

The way of some flesh / Frank Browning

Chain of fools / Kevin Killian

Trying grace / D.G. Miller

The way the stars come home / Peter M. Krask

Images of the body from my religion / David Plante

Coming out and born again / Michael Nava

Bamidbar / Gabriel Lampert

A Christian is someone who's met one / Brad Gooch

What is the sexual orientation of a Christian? / Alfred Corn

Searching for real words / Philip Gambone

God, gays, and the geography of desire / Fenton Johnson

Saying kaddish for Peter / Michael Lowenthal

AIDS : the new crucible of faith / Felice Picano

Personal dichotomies / Antonio Feliz

The exorcism of mother and son / Mark Matousek.

Notes:

Lambda Literary Award, 1995

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

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

Other Format:

Online version: Wrestling with the angel.

ISBN:

1573220035

9781573220033

1573225452

9781573225458

OCLC:

31607005