| Title: |
Wrestling with the Angel - Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men |
| Author: |
Brian Bouldrey (editor) |
| Published by: |
Riverhead Books, 1995 |
| ISBN: |
1-57322-003-5 [hardcover, 314 pages] |
In Wrestling with the Angel, twenty-one
authors - gay men who are Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran,
and Mormon - explore in moving and powerful essays the paradox at the center
of their faiths: If God creates each of us in His own image, then how can
that image be "wrong"?
In vivid descriptions of their paths toward spiritual
and sexual identity, such eloquent contributors as David Plante, Mark Doty,
Lev Raphael, Alfred Corn, Andrew Holleran, Frank Browning, Michael Nava,
Brad Gooch, Fenton Johnson, and Felice Picano reveal the joys and frustrations
of communicating with one's excommunicator or, in some cases, of constructing
a faith of one's own. Heightened by the urgency of this brutal age of AIDS,
their essays are both intensely personal and partisan. They rise off the
page like rambunctious prayers, reflecting not only the spiritual hunger
brought on by the new millennium, but also the fact that we can no more
choose our God than we can our sexuality.
