Married minister turns religious rejection into major Gay Chorus
“I’ve been through exorcisms. I’ve been through therapy. My question going in was, ‘Can you change my thinking?’ They said yes. After two years I said, ‘Nothing’s different. How long does this take?’ My therapist said, ‘Well, you’ll just have to learn to live with it.’ That’s not what I wanted to hear…. I’ve been in the Christian music industry all my life…. But when I came out, that brought me to a dead end of being marketable in that world. The thing I’d hear was, ‘Too bad all that talent’s gone to waste.’ “
Rich Cook, leader of Men Alive, a gay chorus of conservative Orange County, California, describing his journey on how he turned a negative coming out experience with his Christian friends and family into a full-sized gay men’s chorus. (Orange County Register)
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