Going Gay My Journey from Evangelical Christian to Self-Acceptance Love, Life and Meaning

Can you be a Christian and be gay? Tim Rymel spent nearly 20 years emphatically answering no to that question. Born into the fundamentalist, Pentecostal Christian faith, he went into the ministry at 15-years-old, pleading with God to make him straight.  His desperate journey led him into conversion therapy, where he went from participant to leader at what was once the world's oldest and leading ex-gay organization. He, and the prominent ministry staff, including John Paulk, John Smid, and other Exodus leaders, suddenly found themselves thrust into the national media spotlight at a time when the battle between the LGBT community and the evangelical church was heating up. God seemed to be answering Tim's prayers, until everything changed six years into his marriage. When his wife announced she was divorcing him, Tim spent the next six years in virtual isolation, rethinking everything he believed to be true, and what it meant to be a Christian. He never imagined where his journey would ultimately lead.   "'Going Gay' is a thought-provoking account of one man's journey to accept and understand himself. In a culture where faith and sexuality seem often to be at war, the stories of those caught in the crossfire are critically important." Justin Lee, author of Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays vs. Christians Debate