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Alabama Grandson: A Black, Gay Minister's Passage Out of Hiding
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About Alabama Grandson: A Black, Gay Minister's Passage
Product Description A Tell-All Memoir Exposes a Hidden Life and Hard-learned Lessons Southern. Black. Gay. Fatherless. Air Force Veteran. Ordained Methodist Minister. Master of hiding in plain sight. Cedrick Bridgeforth knows what it means to hold, hide, and wrestle with all of these identities. For years Cedrick had taken great pains to shield his full truth from the world. Then one day, at the height of his career, his entire universe came crashing down. Equal parts preacher, poet, confessor, and consummate storyteller, Alabama Grandson chronicles Cedrick’s hard-fought journey to come to terms with the hidden and sometimes conflicting parts of himself. Bookended by poignant letters to his grandmother, Cedrick vulnerably depicts the suffering caused by denying his truth: You were the most influential person in my life. Yet as much as I admired and appreciated you, I did not trust you enough to say to you: “I am gay.” Written over three decades after his grandmother’s death and at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Alabama Grandson asks as many questions as it answers. This memoir will bring you along for a compelling and multidirectional journey into the past in order to point the way forward. All the while, Cedrick elegantly models that there are different paths to living a fully authentic life and different ways of being a leader and agent of change in today’s world. Review With heart-wrenching vulnerability, Cedrick Bridgeforth has crafted a beautiful and riveting narrative. It reveals how personal integrity and character develop through Black gay self-acceptance and deep, nurturing, love by family. This spiritually enlivening journey contains both excruciating, betrayal-filled life lessons and awe-inspiring examples of his non-judgmental, compassionate care for others. —Traci C. West, PhD, Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies Alabama Grandson reviews more than just a gay man's coming out experience. It's the story of how family heritage passes along values and approaches to life that remain vivid, relevant, and powerful under the most challenging conditions. It's a powerful story of the South, of love, of black men and oppression, and of self-realization that leaves readers thinking long after Bridgeforth's story concludes, with another powerful letter to his grandmother celebrating his journey. —Diane Donavon, Midwest Book Review My brother Cedrick comes out of the closet like an educational cyclone with this book. After reading it you will be both blown away and enlightened. With each chapter I clutched my pearls, busted a gut laughing, and wept with his pain. This book is a must-read for all who seek to embrace and understand our LGBTQUIA brothers and sisters. Once you read it, you cannot remain the same. —Dr. Sheron Patterson, Senior Pastor of Hamilton Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX and author of The Blessings and Bling I have known Cedrick for many years but never knew the level of silent suffering he was experiencing in hiding as a Black, gay minister. I applaud the courage demonstrated on the pages of Alabama Grandson and hope this book will encourage others suffering from the fear of rejection and humiliation to embrace life fully while taking steps to live in the open. The truth is always the right thing to speak and this book is a manifesto of love and truth. —Dr.Rudy Rasmus, pastor, humanitarian and author of Love. Period. When All Else Fails Cedrick's writing is full of compelling stories that give you a lens into what it's like carrying a secret in silence. His stories capture each moment in a way that lets you inside his mind, heart and soul. This book is a courageous journey of healing in the pursuit of freedom and wholeness. Cedrick refers to it as a "passage out of hiding" but it's that and much more. Alabama Grandson is an example of what the rite of passage to freedom can look like
