I knew from a very early age that I was gay. Of course, being a Scientologist, let alone on staff, this was a big No-No.

From the time I began my career (at the young age of 13), I had to hide anything and everything possible that may have shown I was gay. Yeah I was fooling around at a young age, but if anyone in the church found out, let alone my parents, I knew that would have been the end for me.

Fast forward a couple years and I’m going through hell and back, lower conditions, ethics interviews, being transferred out of HCO and into another division, all because I had messed around with another young man around my age.

It didn’t stop there. FPRD auditing (auditing which is supposed to get rid of your evil intentions… in this case, my evil intentions against women that were making me gay), more lower conditions, and more “handlings” to get me to “change my ways.

This went on and on for years until finally it all came to a head and I was Comm Ev’d off my post and literally humiliated in front of all my students in the Academy while I was on post. Steve Latch, who some of you may know, literally walked in and made a huge announcement taking me off duty (to the dismay of my students and other staff).

I’ve been told that the church has not been homophobic for a long time. Honestly with what I went though, I highly doubt anything has changed.

Thanks for reposting this article, Mike. Everyone should know that this church is beyond homophobic and anyone who is gay and on staff will go through hell and back more than once, when the church is trying to “fix” them.

Agreed.

No he is Gay.

I still fight that prejudice today, but it’s waning, thankfully.

Nah, I see Davey more as hetero and a golden showers guy (bottom). Slightly indecent and eccentric, and “baaadass” from his fucked-up narcissistic yuppie perspective, but not “really” dirty, nor dangerous. That’s just the thing for him.
How I know? Instinct? BDSM expertise, personal statistics of matching characters/appearances with later revealed fetishes?
Not kidding tho, I really think that might be his thing (and yes, it’s with zero evidence, I’m just guessing).
🙂

When I was studying at ASHO in the late 1970s I did a lot of co-auditing with a gay guy. His simple explanation for why he was gay, not that any explanation is necessary, was that he picked up the wrong body type this time around. He even had a description of how the mix up occurred. I suppose many “wog” gays would just say, “I was born this way.”

What a wonderful post!

In 2015/2016, I spent a considerable amount of time at Scientology’s West Coast headquarters, PAC Base. I turned my findings of scientology’s weirdnesses into a blog. Seeing “Scientologists do what Scientologists do,” helped me get over having been “one of them.” (I had been a Scientologist for 37 years.)

In addition to often daily walks up and down L. Ron Hubbard Way with camera in hand, I did a lot of protesting at scientology orgs in Southern California as well as at many of their special events. And at nearly every scientology location I went where I also saw one or more of their security guards, I heard them say not-so-nice things about me to my face.

I suppose they meant to introvert me. Based on what they said, how they said it, and how often they said it, their message had but one meaning: sex. After a while, it became quite obvious that someone had access to my PC folders and Ethics folders.

Some of the security guards obviously hadn’t done their homework, since they accused me of deviant sexual behavior that I had never done. Nevertheless, someone had combed through my folders and had gotten the “dirt” on me, and were attempting to use it as a weapon.

I remember one such incident at an event. A security guard bullbaited me on stuff that had obviously been retrieved from my folders. I even called him out on it. At one point, he faked wanting to give me a handshake. When he suddenly pulled his hand away from mine, he said something like, “Eww! I don’t know where you’ve been or what or who you have touched!” Security Guards at Celebrity Centre also seemed to think they knew all about my sexual past, but they didn’t, not quite. I wondered how they could be so certain of their “source.”

The bullbaiting proved to be ineffective. I suppose that after a lifetime of bullbaiting, I’ve become somewhat immune to it.

Scientologists need our acceptance, compassion and understanding, because we know where they’re coming from, even if they can’t see it.