Im.not gay no more
In 2014, Andrew Caldwell was introduced to the world via a viral video in which he proclaimed his deliverance from homosexuality at an annual COGIC convention in St. Louis.
“I was already fighting for deliverance,” he told me in an interview two years later. “That night I said, ‘God, if you’re real, I want you to show me.’”
It was truly a spectacle. In a noisy, purple top with a giant mustard bowtie and matching handkerchief hanging out the pocket of his patterned suit jacket, he screamed what seemed an impossibly even louder, “I’m deliver’t! I don’t like mens no more!”
The absurd pageant prompted reactions from nearly everyone with an internet connection ranging from congratulations (God can hand over all who ask!) to fervent belittlement.
Most of us, especially those of us who support or exist within homosexual communities, were incredulous and thought the whole thing a sad charade. Sexuality can’t be changed, we are told, and even if it could, his dramatic mannerisms and speech patterns which he retained – despite promising to no longer carry a purse and switch – after his “deliverance” obviously pointed to his inherent homosexuality. Caldwell’s desire to be freed from ga
‘I’m not gay no more’ remixed
Earlier this week, a video of a 21-year-old man proclaiming to be “gay no more” at Church of God in Christ’s 107th Holy Convocation in St Louis, Missouri, went viral, and I didn’t blog it because, well, it was just too easy.
But now that his excitement over creature “cured” has been given some musical accompaniment, how can I resist?
Lyrics:
“I’m not gay no more. I am delivered! I don’t like mens no more. I said I prefer women. Women, women, women, women! I said women! I’m not gay! I would not date a man! I would not carry a purse! I would not put on makeup! I will, I will love a women.”