Sex and Spirituality
The last day of August in Manhattan offered that oddly Biblical sort of weather—intense storms deluging the city in the wake of an unbearable heat wave—appropriate to a conversation with two gay and lesbian writers who have explored religion and spirituality in the context of their own queer lives.Very interesting article.
Brad Gooch, who published “Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America,” in 2002, and Donna Minkowitz, who earlier, in 1998, had written “Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury,” sat down that day with Gay City News to discuss a range of issues that their books and the research behind raised—including sex, spirituality, religion, and even S & M.
