Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Where Gays Lie -- 1. "The End of the Rainbow, My Pot of Gold": The Queer Erotics of Purity Balls and Christian Abstinence Culture -- 2. Breeding Fraternities: Ex-Gay Ministries, Barebacking, and Alternative Models of Relation -- 3. Jesus Needs Gays, Yes He Does: Gay Religion, Queer Spirituality, and the Recalcitrance of Ideology -- 4. Slouching towards Gaytheism: Gay Suicide, "It Gets Better," and Religion's Stranglehold on Queer Survival -- Conclusion: Before the Cock Crows -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.