Creative Nonfiction Blog by Brenda Gaines Hunter

New Manuscript: The Cord

I hope you like it.

http://bgaineshunter.typepad.com/The%20Cord.pdf

 

My Gay Identity and My Relationship With God

I intend to turn this into a longer identity piece that includes more extensive research. In the meantime, I'm parking it here.  In it's present form, it is sort of an open letter.

First off, homosexuality is not a sin. When taken in context every passage in the Bible that deals with homosexuality does so within the context of male rape and prostitution and group sex in pagan temples--not within consensual, monogamous relationships. The sins are rape, prostitution, and promiscuity. Further, Samuel 18:1 states "...Jonathan became one in spirit with David and he loved him as himself." (New International Version, NIV) Samuel 20:41 offers us this insight into David and Jonathan's relationship: "After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with is face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together - but David wept the most." (NIV) Finally, Samuel 1:26 reads,"I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women." David's and Jonathan's relationship was likely romantic and/or sexual. Men and women in ancient times did not have platonic relationships. They were either married or there was no relationship. So when David says that Jonathan's love was more wonderful than that of women he is talking about sexual relationships. It would make little sense for him to compare a platonic relationship to a sexual one.

Re-Publication of "An Interview With Reginald Shepherd"

My manuscript "An Interview With Reginald Shepherd" will be reprinted in a bibliography of gay, African American literature called, Carry the Word II.

Added Two Education Articles

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 175%;">The articles are also examples of creative nonfiction (Well, maybe not the one that deals with critical and postmodern pedagogies). I intend to write another article dealing with postmodern and creative nonfiction. I decided that understanding postmodernism would be a noble goal for my readers. At some point, I'd like to provide an instructional design example.

Updated Manuscript: Masculine Markers

I updated the manuscript "Masculine Markers." I don't know if it is an actual improvement over the first draft.