On Being Gay: Thoughts on Family, Faith, and Love

by Brian McNaught

Brian McNaught has a special knack for enabling people to understand what it means to be gay. He has done so as a writer and lecturer since 1974, explaining, encouraging, and often healing his audiences. McNaught provides a look-- sometimes humorous, always insightful-- at such concerns as whether or not to "come out," maintaining ties with one's family, building love relationships that last, developing an honest relationship with God, dealing with AIDS, and accepting oneself as decent and worthy of respect.

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT, Self Help, Queer, Gay

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1988

Reviews

[Cyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is amazing how much of this book, written from 1975 to 1986, is still right-on today: how the struggle is still just as hard--and in some ways even harder (such as in the Roman Catholic Church, which I believe has taken a bunch of steps backwards since he wrote "The Sad Dilemma of the Gay Catholic" in 1975), and how absolutely essential it is for GLBTQI people to rid themselves of the oppression and abuse and hatred and condemnation other people have made sure we set up inside ourselves. Sure, he wrote this 30 years ago--but if you are a gay Christian in the 21st century, read it.

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the ministers at Cathedral of Hope in Dallas gave this to me...it truly helped me in my process of accepting myself while coming out.

[Becca · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was rather dry. It was much more interesting to hear Brian McNaught speak, than to read this book. I didn't actually read every essay in the book.

[Tait Jensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

An impassioned call for self acceptance, brimming with love and a plea that we forgive. This is perhaps the most spiritual book I've yet to find on the topic of homosexuality.