This article describes how an African American gay man living with AIDS used his spiritual, religious, and cultural strengths to resist internalized dislocation because of heterosexism and homophobia. He was able to experience a relocation of God from places that rejected him to places that were conducive to his healing. By using these strengths, he was able to reject his physician's prediction of death and to call on God in response to an end‐stage AIDS crisis. The development of spiritual agency is addressed.
The Journal of Sex Research
Volume 42, 2005 - Issue 1: Sexuality and Place
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