In honor of the documentary Esther Newton Ma Me Gay screeng at the LGBT Communy Center on Friday October 21, please enjoy this 2019 terview.
Contents:
- TALKG DOG GAY CHRISTIAN ROURC
- HOW ESTHER NEWTON MA EVERYONE GAY
- ESTER DEAN NET WORTH, GAY, DATG, FAY
- THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG
TALKG DOG GAY CHRISTIAN ROURC
Broadsters such as Anrson Cooper and MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki have e out as gay. Some background is orr: I had kept the secret of beg gay for five years before g out—three of them I was gone om the Yon, a stunt Texas, rearchg whether or not God was okay wh me beg gay.
Thankfully, not only was He ol wh me beg gay, was how he created me to be. I had known many gays who told me to go live my life and not bother wh g out at all. And further, how uld God put me on any kd of road to mister to other gay christians–when I uldn’t be hont wh them?
HOW ESTHER NEWTON MA EVERYONE GAY
I flipped open to the first chapter of Esther and began readg her story for the first time as a gay man. I was shocked at how closely she paralleled what gay people go through. Is Esther applible to gay Christians today?
Every gay person who out helps troduce the normaly of gays to other Christians. Gay people are already their liv. Today, many GLBT folks are si church, or raised by Christian fai, told that they mt choose between beg gay or beg Christian–and that’s jt not te.
For many gay Christians, suici looks like a viable optn–and suici rat are statistilly higher for LGBT youth. The people need to see gay Christians e out. In my se, there was a lot of pa–as people had to firmly stand agast homosexualy, even as they tried to stand for me.
ESTER DEAN NET WORTH, GAY, DATG, FAY
But jt as you nnot take the lor out of your sk and jt hate the lor–you n’t take the homosexualy out of a gay or lbian and separate .
I am happier, more stable, more nfint, and willg to take stands knowg I am standg on my own tegry, and on the tth that God lov me as a gay man, and wants the bt for me, which will clu, one day, a good man as my hband. I know if I had had other gay christians to talk to, would have been ls paful.
Instead of headg off to study trib some far-flung lotn, as was probably expected, she chose to study Gay and Lbian humans… somethg pretty amazg for 1968! In honor of the documentary Esther Newton Ma Me Gay screeng at the LGBT Communy Center on Friday October 21, as part of NewFt, please enjoy this 2019 terview.
THE HIDN GAY LIV OF 'THE WALTONS' GRANDPARENTS ELLEN CORBY & WILL GEER SPE THEIR MARRIAG
Esther is famo for her books, Mother Camp: Female Impersonatn Ameri, Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years Ameri’s First Gay and Lbian Town, Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ias, and recently her bgraphy My Butch Career: a Memoir. Esther Newton: Drag was practilly outsi the outskirts of straight society, but was very central to the closeted but vibrant gay society of many towns and ci. I disvered the drag queen performanc gog wh gay male iends to bars, which were pecially numero Chigo and Kansas Cy where I did most of my rearch durg the 1960s.