Soulfully Gay
Subtitle: How Harvard, Sex, Drugs, and Integral Philosophy Drove Me Crazy and Brought Me Back to God
Publisher: Integral Books
Published: May 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781590304181
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works; Aids (Psychosocial Aspects); Homosexuality; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Gay Studies; Personal Memoirs; Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies; Social Science / Gay Studies; Sociology; Religious; Biography; Christian biography; Gays; United States
Description: "Soulfully Gay is the personal memoir of an intellectually rigorous gay man wrestling with fundamental issues of meaning and self-acceptance. Joe Perez finds himself on a quest to understand what it means to be gay at the intersection of conflicts between homosexuality and Christianity, faith and skepticism, mysticism and madness. His journey unfolds amid challenges to his health as a recovering addict, a survivor of a nervous breakdown, and a man living with AIDS. Joe is able to integrate seemingly contradictory elements - his Catholic upbringing versus his openly gay lifestyle, his authentic mystical experiences versus the delusions for which he was hospitalized. With a solid understanding of theology and an ability to see through the veils of political correctness, Joe brings a new level of understanding to the challenges of being a gay man."--BOOK JACKET.