Jallen Rix at Books Inc. Castro June 24, 2010

PRESS RELEASE-
For immediate release

Please join us:

Thursday, June 24th, 2010
7:30 PM
Books Inc.
2275 Market St. @ Noe
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 864 – 6777

Author Jallen Rix will be joining us to read from his latest novel “Ex-Gay No Way.”

Hopelessness is what gay Christians feel when they are told that they must be “straight” to gain God’s acceptance. No matter how hard they try – presenting an outward heterosexual artifice, passionless marriages, celibacy, exorcism, prayer – they still, deep down, feel like inauthentic failures to such a degree that some have committed suicide. The people who are responsible for this outrage are part of a cult-like, 30 year-old “Ex-Gay” movement now hidden behind the misleading appellation “Reparative Therapy.” No matter what psychological dressings they hang on their outward identity, this fundamentalist extremity of Christianity always has the same agenda: because God has told them that homosexuality is a sickness and a sin, the movement has assumed that flipping from gay to straight is possible and change-worthy, despite decades of psycho/sexual research to the contrary.

About the Author:
Jallen Rix, as a young Southern Baptist, joined an ex-gay ministry when he discovered his same-sex attractions. Although the ministry did not make him heterosexual, it did manage to destroy any sense of stability and self-esteem.
Ex-Gay No Way is Dr. Rix’s journey through the ex-gay world and what he did in the aftermath to reintegrate positive sexuality with healthy spirituality. Further, he demonstrates that the tactics used in these oppressive environments are many of the same damaging schemes used everywhere in power-abusive religious organizations today.
Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookstore with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.’s origins date back to the Gold Rush days of 1851, when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt and renamed, and became Books Inc. as we know it today in 1946.

Today, with 10 stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants.

This event is FREE at Books Inc. 2275 Market St., San Francisco 94114
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