Gay SDAs: The Untold Stories - E-book - ePub

Biographie de Juliana Harvard

About the Authors We are gay men and lesbians. We are bisexual, transgendered, and intersexed. We range in age from teenagers to senior citizens. We are of all ethnic and cultural diversities. We are short and tall, fat and skinny, energetic and sedentary. We are doctors, farmers, pastors, mothers and fathers, teachers, carpenters, musicians, counselors, librarians, nurses, computer experts, writers, managers, secretaries, engineers, mechanics, accountants, and unemployed. Some of us are completely out and open, totally comfortable with ourselves and everyone else around us.
Others of us are completely settled in our identity and our lives, but necessarily need to protect ourselves, our homes, and our jobs, and avoid exposure of others-parents, siblings, children, friends, and lovers. Still others of us are essentially closeted, but want and need to share our stories, even anonymously. We are of many convictions and persuasions on issues of relationships, celibacy, the arts, religion, politics and activism within the gay community.
Our sexual "preference" may be anywhere from promiscuity to lifelong monogamy to celibacy; but the sexual orientation we were born with is who we are and not what we do. The one commonality we all share is our Seventh-day Adventist heritage. Regardless of our current church membership status, we were either born into the church, raised or significantly affected by Adventist parents or caregivers, or came into the church later in life. And we are not heterosexual.