Author Description

"I grew up in a world where it seemed that all women were meant to marry, and it was expected that every girl wanted to be a bride. I wanted to be Roy Rogers." Sex and Soul: A Memoir of Salvation is about the quest to reconcile body and soul; it is an intimate look at a struggle between the dictates of a Catholic upbringing and the call to be true to one's sense of self. In a story of transition from compliance to nonconformity, Cristina L. White shares her sexual awakening, spiritual transformation, and her political affinities-a trinity that fueled her change from good Catholic girl to an out and open gay woman of color. Sex and Soul is a frank and often funny account of how one woman's road to damnation became her sole path to salvation.