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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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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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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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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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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