{"id":1410,"date":"2014-09-08T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2014-12-06T00:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T08:19:02","slug":"an-unspoken-compromise-a-spiritual-guide-for-lgbt-people-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/an-unspoken-compromise-a-spiritual-guide-for-lgbt-people-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: An Unspoken Compromise: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People of Faith, by Rizi Timane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unspoken-compromise.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unspoken-compromise.jpeg\" alt=\"unspoken compromise\" width=\"182\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/unspoken-compromise-a-spiritual-guide-for-lgbt-people-of-faith\/oclc\/871401660&amp;referer=brief_results\">Timane, Rizi.?<em>An Unspoken Compromise: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People of Faith. <\/em>HawkFish Publishing. 2013. $19.99. 178p. PB. 978-1484872468.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in the West African nation of Nigeria, Rizi Timane realized as a child that he was a boy although he was born with a girl&#8217;s body. African culture and his family&#8217;s fundamentalist Christian beliefs, however, taught him that being LGBT was a cardinal sin. He struggled for many years with his identity, coming out first as a lesbian and finally as transgender. Timane learned to reconcile what he knew to be true about himself with what he thought to be true about God. <em>An Unspoken Compromise<\/em> is Timane&#8217;s message to members of the LGBT community, especially those who are struggling to reconcile their orientation or gender identity with firmly held religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Although the title leads the reader to believe that the book will be a spiritual reference book similar to Matthew Vines&#8217;s <em>God and the Gay Christian<\/em> or Justin Lee&#8217;s <em>Torn, <\/em>the first 100 pages describe the author&#8217;s childhood, young adulthood, coming out experiences, and transition. At the end, a 24-page appendix serves as a memorial to LGBT victims of homophobic rape in Africa. The remainder of the book discusses Timane&#8217;s interpretations of the so-called biblical &#8220;clobber passages,&#8221; a topic covered extensively by other authors. The book would benefit from some editing.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of LGBT persons in Africa is an important topic, and I hope that Timane&#8217;s work encourages other authors to detail their own experiences. It is recommended as a memoir to public libraries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewer<\/strong>: Jenni Frencham, Librarian<br \/>\nCesar Chavez Middle School, Hayward (CA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timane, Rizi.?An Unspoken Compromise: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People of Faith. HawkFish Publishing. 2013. $19.99. 178p. PB. 978-1484872468. Born and raised in the West African nation of Nigeria, Rizi Timane realized as a child that he was a boy although he was born with a girl&#8217;s body. African culture and his family&#8217;s fundamentalist Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1190,"featured_media":1411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}