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.”
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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.
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“[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.”
