Anthony Venn-Brown is Australia’s first openly gay Pentecostal. He was a leading minister in the Australian Assemblies of God Church before resigning his post after coming out. He currently attends Hillsong in Sydney.
He is the author of A Life of Unlearning which won the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association Literary award in 2004. The book was revised and updated in 2007.
In 2007 Anthony Venn-Brown was voted as being one of the most 25 influential Gay and Lesbian people in Australia.
Anthony Venn-Brown is Australia’s first openly gay Pentecostal. He was a leading minister in the Australian Assemblies of God Church before resigning his post after coming out. He currently attends Hillsong in Sydney.
He is the author of A Life of Unlearning which won the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association Literary award in 2004. The book was revised and updated in 2007.
In 2007 Anthony Venn-Brown was voted as being one of the most 25 influential Gay and Lesbian people in Australia.
Anthony Venn-Brown was a leader in the Assemblies of God and a regular preacher in the mega churches of Australia as well as overseas. He lived in a world that told him his attraction to the same sex made him unacceptable to God and others.
For 22 years he tried desperately to change through psychiatric treatment, exorcisms, exgay programs, 40-day fasts and daily struggles with his ‘problem’. Although happily married for 16 years with two daughters, he eventually had to admit that nothing had changed. In 1991, he faced the toughest decision of his life; be true to himself which would result in losing everything he held dear or continue to live a lie.
A personal video response from dollierot06 in youtube. A good source of alternative opinion that young gay individuals can refer to amidst all the biblical brainwashing.
REPORT : Church ministers preparing to march at Sydney’s Mardi Gras Parade. Their mission? Say sorry to the gay and lesbian community for the treatment they received from Christian churches.
