Diamonds and Devils: A Preacher's Kid's Gay Tale

by D.L. Day

New edition with added chapters!! Diamonds and Devils is a story of the life of Roger Holt who grew up as a gay boy with an Evangelical pastor father, and later became a minister in a predominately LGBTQ congregation. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, but always engaging, Roger's story takes the reader through a life of discovery and challenges. It explores finding and losing religion. When the elderly preacher father shows up with dementia at his grown, gay son’s doorstep, there are shattering revelations. Will they create the final breach in the family, bring ultimate healing, or are some things never resolved? This book is essential for anyone who has had a troubling childhood, or is struggling with coming out. It is also a must read for anyone wanting to follow a fast moving, fascinating life and story. Told with frequent humor, sensitivity, and candor, it's a most intriguing story of human relationships and forgiveness. This may be the most compelling, heart warming story you will read about coming of age as LGBTQ in America. If you are a homophobe, just don't buy this book. If you want to give it a bad review, please read it first.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 26, 2012

Reviews

[Steven J · Rating 5 out of 5]

I appreciated the story a lot. Day does a good job tracing the lived experiences of many Baby-Boomer LGBTQ+ people of faith. I couldn’t keep from thinking about the history of Metropolitan Community Churches and how, in many ways, parts of this story is good historical fiction.