![]() ![]() He told me I broke a rule by saying I would not try to get through to Pat Robertson anymore. ![]() “I got a letter from Lynn Cothren from Coretta Scott King’s office at the King Center. ![]() I just thought you went out there and stood for truth and let the chips fall,” he said. “I went into activism without any kind of preparation. He has fasted on the steps of the Senate to protest the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, he has been jailed for trying to contact Pat Robertson, one of his past employers, and he has traveled the country speaking to college groups trying to get the good news to gays, lesbians and straight people alike. That kind of recognition leads to good things and really high stress things.” “We have become much more recognized than we ever thought or even wanted to be. “The book was so much more widely read than I thought,” White said in a recent phone interview. ![]() He was thrust into this new role by his 1992 book Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America. 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. ![]()
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