ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT. It is usually assumed that being gay or lesbian and being Christian is contradictory. The eight men who participated in this quali tative inquiry demonstrate otherwise. I investigated the ways in which these men integrated their gay and Christian identities meaningfully into their lives. From the interview data, I discerned and describe in this pa per a variety of strategies that these men adopted in order to facilitate identity integration of seemingly mutually exclusive identities. In the bid for social and political equality with heterosexuals, gays and lesbians typically have not received support from Christians, at least not from po litically active Christians, many of whom participate in explicitly anti gay campaigns. Given such a contentious context, I discuss the personal and political implications of integrating gay and evangelical Christian identities. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document De livery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress. com> Website: <https://www.HaworthPress.com>; ©2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]
Gerald Walton is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. His scholarship deconstmcts dominant ideas about “bullying” and offers ways of reconsidering it to bolster preventative approaches against it. Specifically, he highlights social difference and suggests that such discussions are messy and complicated, which means that they are also marginalized and ignored. He is the editor of The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice, published by Peter Lang, 2014.
