Cover photo courtesy University of Notre Dame press. On Wednesday, the University of Notre Dame Press released Greg Bourke’s new memoir Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion.
In the book, Bourke describes his life as an out gay man living in the South during the 1980s and ’90s. In that time, he struggled for acceptance but he ultimately became a gay rights activist after his dismissal as troop leader from the Boy Scouts of America in 2021.
The book also details his “historic role as one of the named defendants in the landmark United States Supreme Court decision Obergefell vs.