(The Lesser Known) Luke Wilson
@lukeslamdunkwilson
PhD | Writer | Editor of SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY
🚨 SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION’s most recent review is now out! 🚨 I am so grateful for Cody Sanders’ thoughtful and generous review in Christian Ethics Today of my new anthology. Here it is! 💜
Y’all, I *finally* submitted my final manuscript for my next book, DON’T ASK, TELL ALL: STORIES OF CHRISTIAN COLLEGES’ ANTI-LGBTQ+ REGIMES (under contract with @ugapress.bsky.social). I canNOT wait for this book to be out—more details to come! 💜
Friends and family! I need your help! I am trying to decide which photo to include for my next book, and I don't know which of these I ought to choose. Which would you choose? Help!
I just received some fun news that made my day! My publisher, @rutgersupress.bsky.social, let me know that my book, AT HOME WITH THE HOLOCAUST, was selected for its cover design as a winner of the Association of University Presses' Book, Jacket, and Journal Show for this year! Link below!
Alan Chambers—the former leader of Exodus International, once the world’s largest and most notorious “ex-gay” ministry that advocated for and practiced #conversiontherapy for decades—has been accused of trying to meet with a 14-year-old boy. He is now in custody. See link below for more info.
If you haven’t already checked them out, you best take a peek at the work they do—they are a boots-on-the-ground association that makes real-world impact.
I am SUPER excited to announce that I’ve been selected to be a 2025-2026 @americanhumanist.bsky.social Thought Fellow! I’m so looking forward to collaborating with the AHA and supporting the mission of this fantastic org. 😎
If this is you or a friend (or perhaps friends), please reach out or have them reach out by way of e-mail (anthology.submission2026@gmail.com). Please also feel free to tag friends, share this post, and help spread the word!
🚨 CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA! 🚨 Are you an ex-fundie, an exvangelical, or a progressive Christian who was subjected to religious trauma? Do you have a story to tell? I want to hear from you!
💦 When it rains, it pours. 💦 I’m *very* excited to let you all know that I signed another contract for another short-story anthology! This new anthology, QUEER AND TREMBLING: STORIES OF LGBTQ+ RELIGIOUS TRAUMA, will feature stories of queer and trans experiences in high-control Christian contexts.
🚨 I have an announcement! My new short-story anthology, DON’T ASK, TELL ALL: STORIES OF CHRISTIAN COLLEGES’ ANTI-QUEER REGIMES, is now set to be published! I received the reports yesterday from my peer reviewers + could not be happier with their evaluations. The book will be released in early 2027!🚨
For anyone looking for a resource about conversion therapy after today’s SCOTUS ruling, my new book about conversion therapy might be of interest. Link below 💜
It’s been just over a year since AT HOME WITH THE HOLOCAUST was published! I rarely talk a/b this book online b/c it’s an academic monograph, but it is the result of 6+ years of research + writing, + it was a true labour of love. 1/2
🚨 EXCITING LIFE UPDATE! I just signed the contract for my next book! 🚨
🚨 Calling all Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ writers! A writing opportunity just came across my desk that I want to share. Are you or do you know any youth writers, feature writers, food writers, and/or creative writers? PinkPlayMags is looking for folx who can contribute to their magazine! 🚨
I’m v excited to share that @silvaneves.bsky.social’s fab new edited collection now has a publication date: April 3! My coauthored chapter, “Homosexuality as Addiction: The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Conceptualization of Queerness and Its Legacy in the New Christian Right,” will soon be available to read!
I’m SUPER proud of @syresetfire.bsky.social for sharing his story a/b his time in conversion therapy w/ @trevorproject.bsky.social. Syre’s a fab trans activist, whose story he shares in greater detail in my book SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY. Link to full vid below!
I’m very excited to be collaborating with the Denver Family Institute on a program about #conversiontherapy next week! 🎉 The DFI is a fabulous org that does wildly important mental heath work. I’m so excited to be offering a talk (free to the public—details below) & learning from the DFI family! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
🎁 Holiday Deal! 🎁 Tag a friend & you both will receive a discount code in your DMs for my new anthology SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY! Support queer art while helping your friend (or friends) save some $ (the more friends you tag, the more more $ everyone can save)!
I’m super excited to be in conversation with my friend @timothysrodriguez.bsky.social on Instagram this Sunday about conversion therapy, SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION, and his forthcoming (and FABULOUS) new book CONVERSION THERAPY DROPOUT! Please join us for this Instagram Live! 💜
If you’re looking for a resource on the topic, SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS' STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY would be a great place to start. The anthology brings together 17 stories about conversion therapy as told by survivors themselves, along w/ a foreword by NYT-bestseller Garrard Conley. 4/5
And if you haven’t had the chance to snag a copy, share it with friends and/or on social media, or leave a review, you still can (link below in comments)—and I would be indebted to you, too! Sending y’all lots of love and light 💜✨
We hope you will join us for this series! And if your organization is interested in collaborating on a similar public lecture, workshop, and/or event, please do let me know! I would love to think through possibilities together! 💜
And I of course want to thank the wildly talented and wonderful Gemma Hickey for sharing their fab work and being there to celebrate! Thank you to everyone who has supported me and this work over the past several months—I am one lucky guy!
I could not be more grateful for such a fantastic book launch for SHAME-SEX ATTRACTION: SURVIVORS’ STORIES OF CONVERSION THERAPY! I’m so grateful to all my friends who came out to the launch and to The ArQuives for hosting the event! 💜
I’m so excited to share this collection—it will likely be coming out late 2026. More to come, and HAPPY PRIDE! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 4/4
I am *super* excited and honoured to be this year’s recipient of C. T. Survivors Connect’s Survivor Advocacy Award! I am so grateful to everyone who has supported me and my work to fight against and raise awareness about conversion therapy these past few years.