Background
Bernard Mayes was born on October 10, 1929 in London, England, United Kingdom. He was a son of Reginald Harry Duncan, an artist, and Nellie (Drewe) Mayes.
University College School, Frognal, London, England, United Kingdom
Bernard Mayes was educated at University College School.
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
In 1952 Bernard Mayes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge and Master of Arts degree in 1954.
(In an entirely honest and engaging voice, Mayes offers co...)
In an entirely honest and engaging voice, Mayes offers considerably more than autobiographical recollections of his life as priest, journalist, university teacher and administrator, and gay rights activist. Throughout Escaping God's Closet, Bernard Mayes recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system, but led him to revelations about sexuality, Christianity, and the nature of human existence itself.
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2001
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Bernard Mayes was born on October 10, 1929 in London, England, United Kingdom. He was a son of Reginald Harry Duncan, an artist, and Nellie (Drewe) Mayes.
Bernard Mayes was educated at University College School. In 1952 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cambridge and Master of Arts degree in 1954.
From 1953 to 1955 Bernard Mayes worked as a high school teacher of Latin, Greek, and history at a school in Shrewsbury, England. From 1957 to 1959 he was ordained priest of the Church of England. From 1957 to 1959 Mayes served as an associate priest of the Church of England in Leeds. In 1959 he was an assistant pastor of an Episcopal church in New York.
From 1961 to 1963 he served as a vicar of Episcopal church in Fairfax, California. In 1961 he became a founder of San Francisco Suicide Prevention and Crisis Center, Inc. in San Francisco, California, and served as an executive director until 1969. From 1967 to 1973 Bernard was a general manager of KQED-FM Radio. From 1968 to 1972 Mayes served as a director and founding chair at the National Public Radio. From 1971 to 1983 Mayes worked as a co-founder and executive director of Parsonage, an Episcopal sexuality study center in San Francisco, California, and a chair from 1981 to 1982.
From 1971 to 1981 Bernard Mayes was a production director of the Audio-Visual Corporation of California. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as an executive vice president of KQED-Television. From 1971 to 1980 Bernard served as a senior management consultant for Advisory Service at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In 1984 he was appointed a faculty member at the University of Virginia and served as an assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 1999. In 1991 he co-founded the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual Faculty, Staff and Graduate Student Association at the University of Virginia, known as UVA Pride, and the Serpentine Society.
In 2001, the University of Virginia Press published Bernard Mayes's autobiography, Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest, which won the national Lambda Literary Award in the spirituality category. He also has published Getting It Across (1958), This Is Bernard Mayes in San Francisco (1986).
(In an entirely honest and engaging voice, Mayes offers co...)
2001Bernard Mayes is a member of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Platform Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Gay Task Force, San Francisco Press Club, Colonnade Club, Raven Society.
Bernard Mayes was an openly gay.
Bernard Mayes had no wife or children.