Description
Bernard Mayes was an ordained Episcopal priest, a volunteer radio producer at KPFA, and the founder of the first suicide prevention hotline in America, started in San Francisco in 1963. Mayes published his autobiography Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest through the University of Virginia Press in 2001. In this program, founder of San Francisco Suicide Prevention and volunteer hotline manager Bernard Mayes discusses the psychology of suicide in America with Elsa Knight Thompson. They also discuss statistics and psychology of suicide in other cities and states in the country.