Andrea Swalec’s profile of a lesbian minister at a black gay church in East New York, Brooklyn is the cover story in the July 14, 2011 issue of the New York Press.
“I’m Gay Cuz God Says I’m Gay” is a version of the piece Swalec wrote for Prof. Glenn Lewis’ Narrative Journalism class in the Fall 2010 semester. It tells the story of Nakia Alford-Saunders, a minister at the Unity Fellowship of Christ Church that was founded in 1982 by an ex-disco star.
Swalec, who graduated from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism last December, is now a reporter/producer for DNAinfo.com, a website that covers news in Manhattan.