Biography
Over the last 20 years, Alan has been a frequent guest on media outlets around the world and has been interviewed by every major media outlet globally including: The New York Times, The Atlantic Magazine, BBC, The Irish Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, TIME, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Newsweek, ABC’s 20/20, Good Morning America, Nightline and World News Tonight, NBC’s Today and Nightly News, and multiple programs on MSNBC, CNN, HLN, and Fox. He and his wife, Leslie, have also been regularly featured guests on the OWN hit show, Our America with Lisa Ling. He has written for The Boston Globe, The Orlando Sentinel, Evangelism.Net, Religion News Service, and The Washington Post. He and his wife, Leslie, co-authored their memoir, My Exodus: From FEAR to GRACE (Zondervan/Harper Collins, 2015).
Once heralded as a hero in the Conservative Christian world as man who overcame his gay orientation, Charisma named Alan ‘One of the Top 30 Leaders Representing the Future of the American Church’ and World Magazine gave him their top honor, Daniel of the Year 2011, though both might now regret their choice because in June 2013 Alan shut down Exodus International and apologized for the harm he believes conservative Christianity has done to the LGBTQ+ community. Outreach Magazine named Alan’s first book, God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door (Harvest House, 2006), Outreach of the Year in 2007.
Alan and Leslie Chambers are fierce advocates for agape love powered by grace. Their primary outreach is in the evangelical church focusing on LGBTQ+ inclusion. Alan and Leslie are elders at Grace Church.
