James Melville White Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
James Melville "Mel" White (born July 26, 1940) is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting auto-biographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994. and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians.
Although White and his husband, Gary Nixon, were not married until 2008 (during the few months in 2008 in which same-sex marriage was legal in California), they had been romantic partners since the early 1980s.
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For many years, Rev. White was a ghostwriter for famous religious right figures such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. During that time, White tried to "cure" his own homosexuality through various methods including prayer, fasting, aversive therapies, exorcism, and electric shock before finally admitting his homosexuality to himself and his family. Eventually, White and his romantic partner Gary Nixon founded Soulforce, an organization that strives for "freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender[ed] people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance.".
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