The Challenge alum Davis Mallory says he no longer identifies as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
“I lived a gay lifestyle for about 20 years, I was on a television show The Real World and I came out as a gay Christian,” Mallory, 42, said in a Sunday, September 14, Instagram video while speaking on stage at the Arise House of Prayer and Worship in Hawaii. “God really pulled me out of that lifestyle a year ago.”
Mallory publicly came out as gay when he appeared on The Real World: Denver in 2007.
“Praise God, honestly. He started speaking to me in my dreams and showing me the spiritual warfare that I was going through,” Mallory said. “Every time I returned to sin, I would have a nightmare that my car was being broken into. I had a nightmare [where] I gave [the car’s] title to someone else. I was giving my identity to someone else while my car was sliding backwards.”
He continued, “So, he was just showing me these really strong visual dreams, these images of what sin was doing in my life.”
Mallory further recalled having a dream of a man standing on a mountaintop.
“I wanted to get to that man,” he said. “In order to get to that man, I had to get into the water. I wanted to stay in the shallow, easy part of the water and I got pulled into the depths [and] the really scary parts of the water and a rock protected me. I heard the words, ‘Seek the younger generation and share the news and then take the news to wise generation.’”
According to Mallory, he “felt like God was really calling [him] out into something.”
Mallory visited the Arise House earlier this year, where he had another epiphany about his lifestyle.
“[God] said with that prophecy would come acts of healing and words of wisdom,” he continued. “I really didn’t know what that meant. [Then,] I saw someone get water baptized that day, and my friend who was with me said, ‘Davis, when were you water-baptized?’ I go, ‘I don’t remember.’”
Mallory was christened at the time, which inspired him to write a song titled, “Baptized.”
“Could this be Heaven / ‘cause if it is I know I don’t want to forget it / Second is this my second chance,” he sings. “At finding love / but now I understand the message.”
Mallory previously told Out magazine in 2018 that he “had a suspicion” that he was queer when he was 15 years old.
“As a boy growing up in Georgia with a very religious family and community, being gay was not at all what I wanted to be,” he told the outlet at the time. “I came out to my peers in my junior year of college on a study abroad trip in Europe. I had finally fallen in love for the first time that summer, with a man and I felt feelings I had never felt before for a woman.”
