Ben Appel

About The Author

Ben Appel has written for Newsweek, Quillette, Queer Majority, The Free Press, The Spectator, spiked, UnHerd, and the Washington Examiner. He earned his BA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where he won the 2019 Nonfiction Prize. He lives with his husband in New York City.

Books by Ben Appel

Cis White Gay

The Making of a Gender Heretic

By Ben Appel
A gay survivor of a Christian cult finds new purpose in LGBT activism and attends Columbia University with the aim of becoming a journalist, only to find himself in a new cult devoted to “queerness,” anti-Zionism and anti-Western radicalism.
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