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Our new title from the Philippines, ‘Of God and Men’, is now available on Kindle. Printed edition in the coming weeks.

Raymond Alikpala tells the story of how he struggled to reconcile his sexual orientation with his religious belief.

maverick-house:

While homosexuality is accepted in most countries, this is not the
case in the Philippines where bakla men are treated as second
class citizens; homosexuality regarded as a “disordered
inclination.”

Of God and Men is the true story of Raymond Alikpala’s journey
of self discovery that takes him from the predominantly
Catholic Phillipines to Singapore, Thailand and eventually to
Cambodia.

It was a journey in which he joined and left the
priesthood after deciding that his God wanted him to live a full
and honest life, which meant coming out.