Mel White

For thirty years, the Rev. Dr. Mel White served the evangelical Christian community as pastor, seminary professor, and ghostwriter to its most famous and powerful leaders. Since coming out in 1994, Mel has traveled across the country organizing people of faith to do justice and confronting religious leaders whose anti-gay rhetoric, he says, “leads to the suffering and death of God’s lesbian and gay children.” Speaking with a powerful and prophetic voice against the rise of Christian fundamentalism, Mel is the author of numerous books and the cofounder and former president of Soulforce, Inc., an organization committed to ending religious-based bigotry against LGBT Americans. He is the recipient of the ACLU’S National Civil Liberties Award.