Davis Mallory is reacting to some of the skeptical responses he’s received since introducing his girlfriend on social media this week, one year after he announced that he is no longer gay.
The star of ‘The Challenge’ took to Instagram on Friday to ask his followers why they’re struggling to accept the idea that someone can change their sexual orientation.
(As fans know, Davis publicly came out as gay during ‘The Real World: Denver’ in 2006 and lived as an openly gay man for nearly 20 years. In 2025, however, Davis announced that God had “pulled [him] out of that lifestyle” and had begun showing up in his dreams every time he “returned to sin.”)
“In a world where everything can change, from your favorite ice cream flavor, to your hair color, to your weight, to your gender identity… the world feels what cannot be changed is your sexual orientation,” Davis wrote on Instagram Stories on Friday.
Davis made it clear that he believes he didn’t decide to change his sexual orientation and, rather, it was an act of God.
“What has been changed within me was not by my own might but by the work of the Lord working through me,” he wrote.
As The Ashley previously reported, Davis is now dating Rachel Vaughan, a woman he’s proclaimed his love for on social media.
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In the past, Davis has stated that he was always conflicted with accepting that he was gay. In 2018, he told Out magazine that he believed his religious upbringing made it hard for him to come to terms with being gay.
“At 15, I had a suspicion I was gay. Well, I wouldn’t have called myself ‘gay,’ as that word had such a strong negative connotation to me. 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 said. “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.”
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In October 2025, Davis appeared on The Becket Cook YouTube show and explained how he realized he was not gay around 2024, after being in a relationship with a man for three years.
“Throughout the last year of our relationship, I feel like it was the Holy Spirit or I feel like God just took my desire for having sex with him away,” Davis explained. “I literally could not and did not have any desire for sex, but I had a desire for company, companionship…and I started noticing that God was kind of putting it on me that, like, this sex does not produce life.
“And it was just saddening,” Davis continued. “I just felt so sad any time we had sex. I just felt such deep sadness. And so that was the beginning of a change in my heart…”
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During the same 2025 interview, Davis said he realized around that time that one of his “biggest life purposes” is to “save other men from the hell or fire that I had just been in.”
He also stated that he did like women romantically but had convinced himself that he was gay.
“I have found women attractive for a long time as well but I was just claiming to this [gay] label,” he said. “I’d labeled myself as gay and only gay and it felt like a sticker I couldn’t take off of me. And I just felt like I didn’t know how to get back into being heterosexual because I did feel like God had designed me to be that way but I [was] kind of, like, tattooed with ‘gay’ and I couldn’t figure out how to take it off, you know?”
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Typical. Had someone announced that they are no longer straight these idiots would have gone “you goooo!”
If a man that lived as a heterosexual and came out as gay, everyone would be cheering and praising him. But if it’s the other way around, he gets shamed and ridiculed?? Our society has really fallen off the deep end when it comes to double standards.
If the reason they changed their mind was due to God, I would most certainly question it. I feel many people can be all variations of gay, straight, bi, etc. Perhaps a case of that they usually prefer one gender but sometimes can be attracted to the other gender. To use God as the reason and acting like being gay is evil? Yeah I will most certainly not back him. I actually wondered why people were so closed minded till I read his reasoning and actually understood the hate he is getting.
Why do you care if he changed his life because of God or for any other reason? It’s his life and it doesn’t affect you either way.
If you’re bi, just be bi. It’s sad that so many people think the Christian God isn’t capable of making anything but straight people. If he can do literally anything, why put him in a box? I feel so bad for queer Christians who feel like they can’t just exist how they are.
Omg you’re literally biologically designed to be male and female and reproduce with the OPPOSITE sex. I love how liberals seem to be able to tout homosexuality and science at the same time.
You’re so clueless when you say this. I love how this is so close minded. Some heterosexual people get together with the plan to never procreate. Everything is so black and white with you people.
If he’s bi he’s allowed to have a gf.. it’s crazy how being gay is praised by everyone.. so weird
So he just doesn’t know that bisexual people exist??
This is one of the things about Christianity that really bothers me. There is very little room for individuality. People can’t just be who they are, they have to be just like everyone else. Being different is seen as sinful.
Don’t say Christianity.. yall praise Islam. Plenty of churches in the USA support the gays. How many Islamic religious people even in the USA will support you if you’re gay? Why say Christianity but leave that out, yall defend Islam right? Well they’re much less open about gays than Christianity is. So weird
I’m sorry but for me, I just feel he has been brainwashed. I used to love him back in The Real World but I don’t understand how he just doesn’t get he is bisexual. I had a friend like this who just couldn’t accept himself. (Hope at least now he did)
Be with a woman, if she makes you happy, great but don’t act like your past relationships with men aren’t just proof you are bisexual. And it’s completely possible to once like women more and once men. It’s the definition of bisexuality, you are attracted to both. (Pansexual is when you are attracted to everyone basically too, including trans people)
You like who you like.
If a man in 1958 could be social pressured to believe he needed a wife and to have kids and keep up that pretense and did that being gay why can’t a man in 2007 be social pressured to believe he is gay and needs to partner with a man and find he needs to keep up that pretense? Why was the man from the 50’s supported partnering with men in the 60’s but not the man from the start of this century partnering with women some decades later? It is not a betrayal. No reason to start labeling people bi. He can identify himself. You like who you like.
He went into this environment where gay was socially encouraged. But found out just now that that culture as hard to come out as straight as from a Christian culture coming out as gay. If he converted to Islam and started living a straight life would Islam be bashed? If he converted to Judaism and wanted to be observant? Because his belief in God is Christian based, religion is “bad”. Hashem and Allah have a similar objections. If he said relationships with men were a less than satisfying or a lie and relationships with women is what he wants it really only affects the relationships he left and the ones he will form. If the man had a religious awakening and converted to Islam and turned his back on men and found a woman to partner with he would be supported. As he should be. If he were straight later wanting a relationship with a male he should b supported. God lets us have free will, why doesn’t the gay community? How closed minded.
People have a hard time believing you can change your sexual orientation, especially in the context of a religious epiphany, because we’ve seen so many others claim it before.
Ever heard of Exodus International? They used to be THE premier Christian organization of “ex-gays.” They used to have these big conventions where they’d all get together to “hold each other accountable” and “pray together” to resist temptation. According to the stories that came out of those conventions, they were huge hook-up festivals, the sexual high point of the “ex-gay” Christian social calendar. It got to be such common knowledge that “ex-gay” became a punchline.
Now, if you’ve always been attracted to women, too, then you’re just bisexual, that’s all. Bisexual people can have monogamous relationships, it’s not a big deal.
I don’t know what his fundamental sexual orientation is, and I honestly don’t really care. Maybe he was Straight but “bi-curious.” Maybe he’s Gay but has chosen to adjust his behavior because he felt the flames of Hell licking at his heels. WHATEVER. I don’t judge other people for how they choose to live their lives. I can only live my own truth. The surest measure of one’s sexual orientation is what they dream about at night. If the only people you have sexual dreams about are people of your own gender, well, do the math.
So sad the level of control religion has in america. The amount at shitty things that are done in the name of god\ jesus is shocking.
Right. He’s so worried about being gay, but it will be ok when he ruins some woman’s life when she finds out he’s having an affair with a man.
Funny no one cares about the wife’s life ruined when the husband comes out as gay or trans for the last 30 years. It’s all yay him.
He should had no societal pressure to remain gay or straight. He can identify how he likes. He can leave or change religion when he likes. Like everyone in the English speaking world can. This is not Russia, Indonesia, North Korea.
For all we know he pretended to be gay for the casting on the show and got trapped in it for his career.
Do you know many straight men? Do you think a lot of them would willingly participate in homosexual activities?? Probably not. I don’t care about religion or sexuality really, but you either like sex with men or don’t. There is no “god” and it’s pathetic to think there is an omnipotent power that can “ungay” someone. He’s lying to himself and the women he’s dating..which isn’t ok regardless of sexual preference.
The British Empire ended slavery because of religion.
Christianity stopped Roman Empire female infanticide because of religion.
Yes the age of exploration thing happened to spread Christianity. But that was not just about Jesus. The Ottoman Empire expanded to spread Islam. It is why Christian Europe left the continent. To preserve Christianity should the Ottoman’s spread to all of Europe. They took a large chunk or Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism and the indigenous religions in western Asia and Northern Africa as it was. It was the thing in those centuries. China was also making alliances or conquering to get unified in this time.
A Judeo-Christian North America led to a place where can people be religious or not, change between religions with no fear of death, have same sex partners. Despite the majority affiliated with religions that object. Do you think if Japan or the USSR annexed the U.S. decades ago this would be the case?
If you are going to mad about religion do it equally.
Why are you so bothered by one man sleeping with a woman? It has nothing to do with you. If in 10 years he sleeps with a man that also would have nothing to do with you. You like who you like. It is not complicated.
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland and the many native children in Canada murdered in their forced religious schools would like a word….
You can’t find any warts in religion outside Christianity?