It’s been an tertg few weeks the world of “gay” viral vios. First we met 15-year-old Brendan Jordan, whose rehg, unapologetic...
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- “I’M NOT GAY NO MORE” CHURCHGOER STILL DIR MEN, ADMS HE HASN’T BEEN “DELIVERDT”
- WHY DID ANDREW CALDWELL’S EX-GAY VIO GO VIRAL?
- CHURCH THREATENS LAWSU OVER 'I'M NOT GAY NO MORE' SONG
- COGIC THREATENS TO SUE ‘DELIVERT’ MAN OVER ‘I’M NOT GAY NO MORE’ SONG?
- MAN WHO CLAIMED 'I'M NOT GAY NO MORE' RPONDS TO CRICS
- “I’M NOT GAY NO MORE” CHURCHGOER STILL DIR MEN, ADMS HE HASN’T BEEN “DELIVERDT”
- "I'M NOT GAY NO MORE!" GUY SAYS HE WASN'T REALLY 'LIVERT'
- “I DON’T LIKE MENS ANYMORE”: MAN CLAIMS TO BE DELIVERED FROM BEG GAY AT CHURCH [VIDEO]
“I’M NOT GAY NO MORE” CHURCHGOER STILL DIR MEN, ADMS HE HASN’T BEEN “DELIVERDT”
Andrew Caldwell has apparently learned the lson that, well, you n’t pray away the gay, as the sayg go. * i'm not gay no more i have been delivered *
Andrew Caldwell has apparently learned the lson that, well, you n’t pray away the gay, as the sayg go. You may rell the story of Caldwell, who beme a virtual h last fall when he flamboyantly nounced his homosexualy at the 107th Holy Convotn of the Church of God In Christ St.
“I’m not gay no more, ” said Caldwell, who was cked out a paisley jacket, purple shirt, and flouncy bow tie a vio that went viral, spawng jok, songs, and ritur.
WHY DID ANDREW CALDWELL’S EX-GAY VIO GO VIRAL?
* i'm not gay no more i have been delivered *
I’m not gay!
CHURCH THREATENS LAWSU OVER 'I'M NOT GAY NO MORE' SONG
He beme a viral sensatn, g the phrase, "I don't like mens no more!" Andrew Caldwell liv Missouri, but he reached out to NBC12 to clear the air about the vio, his “gay nversn” experience and the backlash he has felt. * i'm not gay no more i have been delivered *
He told the statn that he was ser at the time and ma the pronouncements bee the speaker before him had ma homophobic ments. “They thk that they n preach the homosexuals away the Church of God Christ, ” said Caldwell. Caldwell went on to exprs regrets about makg the statements, sayg he has received ath threats and been lled homosexual slurs.
He asks for more prayer bee he tly do want to be livered om homosexualy. Do any of you believe “prayg away the gay, ” or do you believe that such thkg is harmful to the muny? Blake Apologiz For Homophobic, COGIC Convotn Sermon [VIDEO].
COGIC THREATENS TO SUE ‘DELIVERT’ MAN OVER ‘I’M NOT GAY NO MORE’ SONG?
A gay man has a so-lled holy transformatn durg a COGIC Convotn service St. Louis, Missouri, and the vio is now gog viral. * i'm not gay no more i have been delivered *
Why Did Andrew Caldwell’s Ex-Gay Vio Go Viral? It’s been an tertg few weeks the world of “gay” viral vios. And now we are alg wh Andrew Caldwell, a 21-year-old man whose exuberant claratn of havg been cured of homosexualy was met wh much jubilatn by atten of the Church of God Christ’s 107th Holy Convotn … and much chucklg by the gay blogosphere.
While the figur the vios are very different—Jordan openly and happily intifi as gay, while Caldwell ntu to assert he is ex-gay—I n’t help but nsir them together terms of the rponse they’ve generated. I prevly argued that Jordan’s allure lay the trouble he ed for ntemporary ias about “rpectable” gay behavr; he b the sweet of entertament wh the salty be of transgrsn.
But first, a rep: In his ttimony, Caldwell exclaims: “I’m not gay no more! Watchg all this, is easy to unrstand why an out gay viewer might have trouble settlg on the appropriate reactn—so much is at play. First, there’s the relig celebratn of ex-gayns, which is nox, but not really surprisg.
MAN WHO CLAIMED 'I'M NOT GAY NO MORE' RPONDS TO CRICS
Andrew Caldwell has apparently learned the lson that, well, you n’t pray away the gay, as the sayg go. * i'm not gay no more i have been delivered *
But wh that ntext, we’re shown a man who, spe or perhaps bee of the words g out of his mouth (women, women, women), seems very gay, at least the sense of cultural markers. We all see this and regnize , and yet the current polil paradigm of self-claratn disurag fg gayns those terms (at least public), so we’re left sort of a strange posn. Do we believe Caldwell, sce he is very fiantly not “out, ” or do we go wh our gaydars and ntue to nsir this man a homo (and perhaps even a n artist) spe his prottatns?
“I’M NOT GAY NO MORE” CHURCHGOER STILL DIR MEN, ADMS HE HASN’T BEEN “DELIVERDT”
When the gay blogs ially vered the vio’s viral breakout, most posted wh ltle mentary other than a general suggtn that this object was patently risible.
"I'M NOT GAY NO MORE!" GUY SAYS HE WASN'T REALLY 'LIVERT'
The “church queen”—the closeted gay man who sublimat his sexualy service of the church, often an artistic pacy like choir director—is a faiar and oft-rid figure.
” Cane is hard on the “black church” about s role trmatizg gays, llg “te, ep vlence, ” but he also nmns those mockg Caldwell as participatg his abe.
So much of the rponse to this vio (among the gay muny, anyway) has felt giddy that way people get when they are actually anx about somethg ser. The church muny appears to be important to this man, and is clear that he nnot be openly gay and rema a part of this particular one. Nor, should be said, n he fd shelter the church queen archetype; the succs of the gay rights movement has had the nsequence of makg those kds of prevly tolerated rol creasgly untenable.
“I DON’T LIKE MENS ANYMORE”: MAN CLAIMS TO BE DELIVERED FROM BEG GAY AT CHURCH [VIDEO]
But nsirg his effemacy, his fah, even his blackns, would the mastream gay muny be any more welg?