“I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both [...]

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I knew I was a lesbian before I got married but I was convinced that if I was “obedient” and married a man, God would take away my desire for women. I met a very nice guy and became engaged. I attempted to tell him about my previous relationships with women, but he didn’t [...]

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Though my story is brief I wanted to share it because it is the opposite of so many of the others included here.
When I was a child my Mom shipped me to every Vacation Bible School in the world, not for the sake of my soul but I suspect the sake of her sanity. I [...]

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As we are all still living, our stories are ongoing. I would like to tell you how I came to accept that God does not ‘damn’ us for being gay.
As a child I was brought up going to church every Sunday. I went to a Christian Day school for first through sixth grades [...]

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I have always been a Christian, and I was United Methodist for the first 38 years of my life. I was never very interested in guys, and I knew there was something different about me from other girls. I was always teased in high school and college about being gay because I didn’t [...]

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I am a 37 year old lesbian living in a small town in country New South Wales, Australia. Looking back I knew I was a lesbian by the age of 15. I was growing up in Sydney with my loving parents and three brothers. We had a Catholic upbringing and at least a few [...]

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My name is Malissa and this is my story. I am seventh out of eight children, but grew up the youngest of the six of us who survived infancy. My life was very simple and plain for two reasons. First was economics as we were very poor. Second was my parent’s faith. By the time [...]

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As an Army ROTC cadet and a sophomore in college that grew up with Southern Baptist roots, I denied to myself along with everyone else in my life that I was gay. Several years prior to me entering college, while in high school, grew a deep longing for a relationship with a woman.
Being raised [...]

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I’m one of the late bloomers. In hindsight, it’s so very clear. I was a tomboy, my movie star crushes were on female stars, but I knew nothing about homosexuality. One of my earliest memories is about seeing a program on TV. I don’t know what happened on it, but in my four year old [...]

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I don’t know if this is as much a “coming out” story as a coming to realization story.
I am a preachers kid (PK) and so growing up the thoughts of being gay weren’t even there. My family didn’t talk down about gay people, we just didn’t talk about it at all. It never was an [...]

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