God Says No
by James Hannaham

Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop bathroom and lets something happen. God Says No is his testimony the story of a young black Christian struggling with desire and belief, with his love for his wife and his appetite for other men, told in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation and religious visions, the path that Gary Gray takes from revival meetings to out life in Atlanta to a prayaway-the-gay ministry in Memphis, Tennessee gives a riveting picture of how a life like his can be lived, and how it can’t.