Dates With a Jesus Gay
At the end of season one of Dates With a Jesus Gay, host David Strugar finishes his coming out story.
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In between parts 1 & 2 of my coming out story, please enjoy this bonus episode where Laura quizzes me about my pop culture crushes. (It's mostly Star Trek.)
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On this episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, our host David begins his own coming out story. Listen along as his twin sister Laura interviews him about their home church, their summer camp crushes, and their early Queer Eye fandom.
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On the eleventh episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, Anthony Ray takes us to church, where he tries his best to be the white sheep of the family, until new haircuts and old liturgy lead him elsewhere.
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In the tenth episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, Darin McKenna takes us from Atlanta to Los Angeles, from not wanting to go to church to planting one, and from living in the status quo to the magical moment in his therapist’s office when he decided to come out as bisexual.
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In the ninth episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, Jaime Prater tells us what it was like growing up in a Christian commune, pursuing justice at Starbucks, and how he had a come-to-Jesus-moment after watching X-Men.
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In the eighth episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, we go from 2 to 38 in record time as Gilbert Gonzalez, Jr, shares his story of being a very dramatic two-year-old, an American Idol contestant, and a gay man who became a Christian later in life (and he’s still gay!).
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In part 2 of Matt Nightingale’s story, we talk about the brief but failed promise of the ex-gay movement, Matt’s family life with his awesome wife and kids, and the inevitable trajectory of justice.
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In the first two-parter of Dates With a Jesus Gay, Matt Nightingale tells the story of growing up a fervent young Christian boy, being baptized multiple times in an effort to get it right, and making some of his best friends online as an anonymous gay Christian.
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In the fifth episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, catch up previous guests Reynaldi, Lili, Matt, and Sean, with bonus clips from our conversations. I also chat with my twin sister about the difficulties of telling my own story, and of planning our 40th birthday.
info_outlineIn the tenth episode of Dates With a Jesus Gay, Darin McKenna takes us from Atlanta to Los Angeles, from not wanting to go to church to planting one, and from living in the status quo to the magical moment in his therapist’s office when he decided to come out as bisexual.
Dates With a Jesus Gay is hosted by David Strugar, and shares the coming out stories of LGBT Christians. Subscribe in your podcatcher of choice, share the show on social media, and support the production by pledging as little as $1/month at Patreon.com/stroogie. You’ll get a cool sticker!
If you’re a queer or LGBT person who grew up within a faith tradition and would like to share your coming out story, contact me on Instagram at @davidstroogie.
Our theme music, “Name This Love,” by artist Greg Atkinson, is licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0. Find the artist at Soundcloud.com/greg_atkinson.