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Mel & Gary’s Story. During the past thirty years, the Rev. Dr. Mel White and his husband, Gary Nixon, have traveled across the country, speaking on university campuses, teaching the “soul force” principles of Gandhi and King, organizing people of faith to do justice, and confronting religious leaders whose anti-gay rhetoric White believes ...
In 1984, White began dating Gary Nixon. In 1994, White wrote his autobiography, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America, which detailed his former career in the Religious Right and his struggle coming to terms with his sexuality. His ex-wife wrote the foreword to this book.
- Mel White
- 1994
Jul 20, 2006 · Mel and his partner, Gary Nixon, then started a website, Soulforce.org, which portrays Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. on the web pages—symbolizing men who “developed inner lives while working to transform society.” Non-violent transformation is vital to their undertaking.
Soulforce was officially established by life partners Mel White and Gary Nixon, based on the principles of nonviolent resistance. October 1999 The “ Lynchburg 200 ”, a group of 200 Soulforcers, gathered in Lynchburg VA for an historic meeting with Rev. Jerry Falwell (televangelist, megachurch pastor, and founder of Liberty University) and ...
Jun 19, 2008 · Mel White and Gary Nixon, co-founders of Soulforce and the Equality Ride to combat spiritual violence against LGBT people, married today -- legally -- at All Saint's Church in Pasadena. The progressive Episcopal church, targeted by the IRS during the Bush Administration for its pro-peace, pro-justice ministry, was where the grooms first met.
Apr 28, 2005 · Partners and co-founders of Soulforce: Gary Nixon and the Rev. Mel White IR: In Stranger at the Gate , you call right-wing Christians "the real Sodomites." Could you explain?
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