What It's Like To Be a Black Gay Pastor Who Came Out on Natnal Televisn

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WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GAY PASTOR WHO CAME OUT ON NATNAL TELEVISN

“I stand here, I am Reverend—ordaed, y Lord—Reverend Derek Anthony Terry, and I am a black gay man who misters,” is how Rev. Derek Terry me out to many of his relativ, iends, and members of his ngregatn earlier this year. It’s also how he told the world when his g-out sermon aired last weekend on OWN’s self-help seri Iyanla Fix My Life, as the climax of Rev. Terry’s three-episo arc. * gay pastor derek *

[There was a vio here]“I stand here, I am Reverend—ordaed, y Lord—Reverend Derek Anthony Terry, and I am a black gay man who misters, ” is how Rev.

Gay-iendly), was of particular tert to me, as were issu of tersectnaly, the supposed ntradictn of beg a gay practicg Christian, and the oft-repeated belief that black people are more homophobic than wh (“Black culture is so homophobic, ” said Kanye Wt, for example, an terview that was released this week). Some people I never thought were gay me out wh their stori, some people were sexually asslted.

GAY BLACK PASTORS REVEAL 'DOWN LOW' LIFTYL ON NEW 'IYANLA: FIX MY LIFE'

Rev. Derek Terry who was featured on the three part season five premiere of the Iyanla, Fix My Life Show: Secret Life as a Gay Pastor episos on the Oprah Wey Network is currently featured on CNN's new lennial news work "Great Big Story" (). Sce g own to a ngregatn of his fay and hometown muny, Rev. Derek has bee a bean of hope, spiratn, and enuragement for dividuals strivg to live their tth. * gay pastor derek *

Derek is—he’s gay, he’s gog to be on the show, he’s gog to be talkg about this...

CAN THIS FAY ACCEPT THEIR GAY SON?

Rev. Derek Terry who was featured on the three part season five premiere of the Iyanla, Fix My Life Show: Secret Life as a Gay Pastor episos on the Oprah Wey Network is currently featured on CNN's new lennial news work "Great Big Story" (). Sce g own to a ngregatn of his fay and hometown muny, Rev. Derek has bee a bean of hope, spiratn, and enuragement for dividuals strivg to live their tth. * gay pastor derek *

They hontly believe, “If you’re gog to be gay, jt be gay, you don’t need to talk about . It’s been posive but ’s been ’s the gay experience a nutshell: You jt have so much more to nsir than straight people. He was gay a nomatn that said, “You n’t be gay.

BLACK, GAY, PASTOR WHO CAME OUT ON THE OPRAH WEY NETWORK IS FEATURED ON GREAT BIG STORY (A CNN COMPANY)

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” The guys who did this were the young gay-for-pay kda thugs.

BLACK, GAY, PASTOR WHO CAME OUT ON THE OPRAH WEY NETWORK IS FEATURED ON GREAT BIG STORY (A CNN COMPANY)

” I have iends that are pastors who are gay and they wa till they go out of town, they fd any reason to go out of town, or any reason to do anythg, jt so they n go and be gay and then e back and be miserable aga. There’s a stereotype that black people are more homophobic than whe people.

HOW A TRAGEDY HELPED ME ACCEPT MYSELF AS A GAY PASTOR

Even a lot of black gay people will say, “Well, marriage equaly is a gay whe issue. ” People see as an eher/or: You have to fight for your blackns or your gayns.

But beg a black gay man means somethg. Jt image how black gay women feel.

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There’s also the ia of racism wh the gay muny. Black gay issu are different than whe gay issu. A lot of black gay people feel like, “They’re not fightg for our rights, ” jt like trans people feel that way.

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