Mel White

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Mel White" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Mel White
White in 1995
Born	James Melville White[1] (1940-06-26) June 26, 1940 (age 84)[1] Santa Clara, California, U.S.[1]
Alma mater	Warner Pacific College University of Portland
Occupations	Author clergyman activist
Spouses	Lyla Lee Loehr ​ ​ (m. 1962; div. 1982)​ Gary Nixon ​ ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	2, including Mike White

James Melville "Mel" White (born June 26, 1940) is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994^[2] and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians.