Coming Out Spiritually
─ Christian de la Huerta
“Coming Out Spiritually” by Christian de la Huerta is a transformative guidebook that explores the intersection of spirituality. It offers a fresh outlook on gay spirituality, empowering LGBTQ individuals with a sacred foundation. Discover the archetypes within your soul, embark on personal evolution, and reclaim your spiritual heritage. This book is an impassioned call to action, inviting you to embrace limitless possibilities.
A remarkable guide for LGBTQ individuals who want
to reclaim a spiritual connection.
De la Huerta whips up an enlightening, reverent, celebratory tome that refuses to deny the corporeal in order to celebrate transcendence. Full of words to live by, the scope and heartfelt intensity of this book should be required reading for every gay man as we approach the millium.
About “Coming Out Spiritually”
 
In these transformative times of dramatic social change, where the highly charged issue of homosexuality ignites controversy in religion, marriage, politics, education. Christian de la Huerta offers a radiant beacon of hope—a fresh and resolute outlook on gay spirituality and how to assert it.
“Coming Out Spiritually” is an extraordinary guidebook, as encompassing as the boundless sky, that illuminates the spiritual awakening coursing through the veins of the LGBTQ community, resonating with the pulse of humanity at large.
What They Say
“COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY is a thoroughly researched, thought-provoking examination of the relationships between gays and lesbians and the multiplicity of ways of expressing what I call the impulse to mystery—the need to engage that aspect of the world and of our lives that lies beyond words and explication. De la Huerta’s book will be of great interest both to the spiritually curious and to the dedicated seeker, for it compiles in one source everything from useful summaries to the various religions’ principles and attitudes toward same-gender love to profiles of the author’s own remarkable spiritual journey. Through this book and through his organization QSpirit, de la Huerta is performing a great service, not only to gays and lesbians but to the causes of peace and justice.”
“Christian de la Huerta bears witness to gay people’s quest for meaning with compassion and clarity. He reports his findings with an expansive vision, ranging from the traditional to the unorthodox, and with a voice enriched by past discovery as well as future promise. Above all, COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY offers helpful new ways of thinking about queer people in society today. It is a hopeful book, encouraging as it is insightful.”
“With intelligent compassion, Christian de la Huerta immerses us in the great contemporary struggle both inside and outside formal religions to expand human capacity for embracing more than one story about who we are as sacred beings. Written inclusively and warmly, COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY expands the lineage of those of us who comprehend gayness as comprising positive, transformative attributes of spiritual office. This is a book to treasure and teach.”
“The inevitable achievement of our civil rights will be a partial victory for us until we claim for ourselves the spiritual right that Christian de la Huerta invites us to explore. COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY is an encyclopedia of possibilities that make coming out politically and coming in spiritually easier and more joyous.”
“Whether reclaiming or inventing, questioning or witnessing, testifying or envisioning, queer folks today are fomenting a dynamic spiritual renewal. With sympathy and insight, Christian de la Huerta surveys this burgeoning movement in all its diversity.”
“Comparable to Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman and Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run with the Wolves, COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY reveals how we may apply spiritual and archetypal wisdom relating to erotic and gendered diversity to enrich our daily lives as well as to ameliorate the lives of others and to nurture the well-being of the earth.”
“Comparable to Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman and Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run with the Wolves, COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY reveals how we may apply spiritual and archetypal wisdom relating to erotic and gendered diversity to enrich our daily lives as well as to ameliorate the lives of others and to nurture the well-being of the earth.”
“COMING OUT SPIRITUALLY is not only a wisely written book with valid affirmations about the human condition but it is also a great compendium to help us achieve our better and best selves. De la Huerta’s book is valuable to both gays and lesbians.”
“Coming Out Spiritually” was chosen by Publishers’ Weekly, the bible of the industry, as one of the 10 best books of its year.
It has two goals:
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- Challenging the connection between homophobia and religion.
- Helping the LGBTQ community find deeper levels of wholeness and self-acceptance.
 
“It’s tragic that many in the LGBTQ community struggle with issues around spirituality,” writes de la Huerta. “We confuse it with religion and, no wonder, given the treatment we have received at the hands of most religions, but what’s ironic about that is that before the patriarchal cultures and religions, people that we today refer to as LGBTQ were not only spiritually inclined, but were honored for the roles of spiritual service and leadership they played all over the world.”
With the rise of anti-LGBTQ crimes in recent years, and with “Don’t Say Gay,” anti-trans issues, and book bannings regularly in the news, the book provides a timely and relevant platform to raise awareness and inspire change.
Considered a groundbreaking work in its field, the book names ten archetypes—spiritual roles fulfilled by people we today call LGBTQ throughout history and across every culture—including: creators of beauty, consciousness scouts, mediators, shamans, and healers, to name but a few. As it gently unveils the power and purpose of these archetypes, the book turns upside down the argument that one can’t be LGBTQ and spiritual, in the process unveiling a roadmap for the personal evolution of LGBTQ readers. The author beckons them to peer beneath the surface and unearth the boundless reservoir of empowered, authentic self-expression. In the process, he suggests, they will find a way to reconcile their sexuality and spirituality, and find a way of expressing the latter that is a match with who they are.
With profound urgency, “Coming Out Spiritually” delivers an impassioned call to action—a clarion call that resonates deep within the chambers of the soul. It deftly weaves a tapestry of touchstones—challenges that ignite your inner fire, encouragement that fuels your relentless spirit, and unwavering support that uplifts you in times of doubt. It is a clarion call to reclaim the spiritual heritage that is rightfully yours—an inheritance steeped in resilience, strength, and unyielding potential. Christian de la Huerta paints a vivid tableau—a world where the LGBTQ community fully reclaims its spiritual birthright and emerges, unshackled, into a realm of limitless possibilities.
Coming Out Spiritually is comparable to Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in EveryWoman and Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. It reveals how we may apply spiritual and archetypal wisdom relating to erotic and genered diversity to enrich our daily lives.
Christian de la Huerta
Christian de la Huerta is an author, TEDx speaker, sought after spiritual teacher, and unwavering advocate for the LGBTQ community. He has dedicated his life’s work to the exploration and discovery of our greatest inner human potential.
He is a renowned author of two award winning books, Coming Out Spiritually, called an “Extraordinary Achievement” by Publishers Weekly and considered one of the top 10 books in its category for that year. His second book, Awakening the Soul of Power, has received numerous book awards, and remains on the Amazon Bestseller list. Music icon Gloria Estafan called the book, “… A balm for the soul for anyone searching for the truth and answers to life’s difficult questions.”
For over thirty years, Christian de la Huerta has been empowering individuals to unlock their greatest potential. With his extensive experience in self-development and personal transformation, Christian will help you to reclaim your power, conquer your insecurities, embrace your authentic self, cultivate your dream relationship, and live a life that is filled with purpose.
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