Coming Out Spiritually
Christian de la Huerta began writing Coming Out Spiritually: the next step as a response to the need he saw in the LGBT and Queer community for bringing together queer identity with the nature of spirituality. During his research, the book evolved in part into a discussion of what de la Huerta sees as ten archetypes found within the queer spiritual nature. The book includes an overview of many spiritual practices found around the world, and is a call to queer and LGBT persons everywhere to not only come out of the closet sexually, but to come out spiritually as well. It was first published in May 1999, and was recognized by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best religion books of 1999. The book was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.