Mitchell Gold grew up in the suburbs of Trenton NJ. Together with his former partner, Bob Williams, he
opened the Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams Furniture Company in Taylorsville NC, which at one point
had 3 plants and 25 locations and additionally made upholstered furniture for Pottery Barn and William
Sonoma.
Growing up, Mitchell experienced tremendous anxiety and depression over his sexual identity and later,
as the head of a furniture company in rural NC, his employees approached him with questions about his
homosexuality and how he reconciled that with comments they were hearing from their preachers on
Sunday mornings that homosexuality was a sin. So for many years he has been leading a campaign
against religion-based bigotry – the invocation of biblical authority to justify denying rights to individuals
on the basis of their sexual identity. He has served on the Human Rights Campaign board, started his
own organization, Faith in America, and served on the True Faith Doesn’t Bully Committee of the Tyler
Clementi Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to ending online and offline bullying in schools, workplaces
and faith communities.
Mitchell co-edited, Crisis, an anthology of coming out stories including ones from Nate Burkas, Candace
Gingrich, Barney Frank and Richard Chamberlain. Mitchell’s primary goal has been to develop
communications with religious leaders who preach against the LGBTQ+ community, to open their eyes
and get them to reflect on their biases and bases for their harmful beliefs.
website: https://mghindsightforward.com/