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In a State of Grace : Religion: Writer and minister Mel White was a Christian evangelical success story until he came out of the closet. That's when former colleagues including Jerry Falwell...
In this moving, best-selling autobiography, Mel White comes out of the closet to give hope to other gay and lesbian Christians, to confront the misleading anti-gay rhetoric of the radical right, and to launch his own fight for justice and understanding for God’s gay and lesbian children.
White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham.
- Mel White
- 1994
Jul 20, 2006 · After years in ministry, working for the religious right, he came out of the closet. He and his wife divorced, though she is still good friends with him and is supportive of his new ministry. In 1995 he penned Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America (New York: Plume).
Aug 10, 1993 · After a long, tortured odyssey strewn with electroshock therapy, several suicide attempts and a divorce from his wife of 25 years, Mel the Ghost is finally, publicly out of the closet.
A balding, good-natured man with an easy laugh, Mel White is not your stereotypical leather-and-earring-clad gay activist. But ever since his celebrated coming out in 1993 at Dallas’...
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Jan 1, 1997 · He came from deep inside his closet, ghost writing biographies for leaders of the religious right, to fasting in jail because his old employers would no longer recognize him once his true identity was revealed. He was thrust into this new role by his 1992 book Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America.
