“I ed to be a lbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, thor Jackie Hill Perry shar her own story, offerg practil tools that helped her the procs of fdg wholens. Jackie grew up fatherls and experienced genr nfn. She embraced masculy and homosexualy wh every fiber of her beg. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop lovg women, when homosexualy felt more natural to her than heterosexualy ever uld? At age neteen, Jackie me face-to-face wh what meant to be ma new. And not a church, or through ntact wh Christians. God broke and turned her heart toward Him right her own bedroom light of His gospel. Read orr to unrstand. Read orr to hope. Or read orr, like Jackie, to be ma new.
Contents:
- WHO IS JACKIE HILL-PERRY? LECTURE BY 'EX-GAY' CHRISTIAN POET SPARKS LGBT PROTT AT HARVARD
- GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD
- GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD
- BOOK REVIEW: GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD BY JACKIE HILL PERRY
WHO IS JACKIE HILL-PERRY? LECTURE BY 'EX-GAY' CHRISTIAN POET SPARKS LGBT PROTT AT HARVARD
'Gay Girl, Good God' is an exprsive story that shar the thor's journey through life as a same-sex-attracted woman. * gay girl good god about *
Me, beg a gay girl. A gay girl who knew better than to let my feet take me where I didn’t feel weled.
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Homosexualy might have been my loust s, but was not my only s. She is the thor of Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been (B&H Books), om which parts of this article were adapted. Updated | LGBT rights mpaigners wrapped rabow flags have protted agast a Harvard lecture by Jackie Hill-Perry, a Christian activist and poet who claims God stopped her beg gay.
Speakg at an event on Friday hosted by the relig stunt group Harvard College Fah and Actn (HCFA), Hill-Perry told the dience there is "not such a thg as beg born gay, but there is such a thg as beg born broken, broken by s, " The Harvard Crimson poet was met by around two dozen stunts and faculty staff, cludg members of the Harvard LGBT group BGLTQ Stunt Life. One held up a sign at the back of the lecture hall readg: "Gay It's My DNA.
"There was this naggg my nscience that me and God were not as ol as I would have hoped, " Jackie Hill-Perry said of her time a homosexual relatnship. Signatori acced Hill-Perry of rvg out a reer based "homophobia and ignorance unr the guise of a journey to fah, " and spreadg "hateful beliefs.
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Hill-Perry's webse stat that she was "saved om a liftyle of homosexual s. "Hill-Perry is not believed to have unrgone so-lled "nversn therapy, " the ia that a person n be "cured" of homosexualy, which is promoted by certa relig groups. She suggted this was lked to her feelgs of genr dysphoria and her attractn to more: Gay aversn therapy and "cur" for homosexualy: Brish psychiatrists rpond to s of abeHill-Perry began datg women at 17, and later regularly attend gay clubs as well as the Pri para her home 2008 she claimed God spoke to her, promptg her to leave her girliend at the time.
Commentg on Calyn Jenner's transn 2015, Hill-Perry told onle Christian hip-hop magaze Rapzilla: "The transgenr, the lbian, the homosexualy—all of this mak sense when God is not volved.
‘Gay Girl, Good God’ ntas motivatg quot that posn the rear’s attentn on God. ‘Gay Girl, Good God’ is an spirg novel that prents characters who ntribute to Jackie Hill’s story of remptn om an ungodly life. ‘Gay Girl, Good God’ holds a set of them wh the goal to pass the msage of liverance om transgrsns to s rears.
BOOK REVIEW: GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD BY JACKIE HILL PERRY
Although que ntroversial, ‘Gay Girl, Good God’ acplish s purpose of enlighteng Christians on the effects of s. ‘Gay Girl, Good God’ owns a short, straight, and revealg storyle that giv the narratn of Jackie Hill Perry’s life before and after her acceptance of the Lord J Christ. Gay Girl, Good God, thor Jackie Hill Perry shar her own story, offerg practil tools that helped her the procs of fdg wholens.
She embraced masculy and homosexualy wh every fiber of her beg. How was she supposed to stop lovg women, when homosexualy felt more natural to her than heterosexualy ever uld? And what a privilege that is havg now read Jackie’s memoir, Gay Girl, Good God.