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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I am 31 and the oldest of two girls from a family that began in the Midwest and then migrated south (I have since returned to God’s country - Minnesota!). I know it sounds cliché, but I always knew I was different. As a kid of 6 or 7 years old, I would invite girls [...]

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Just over a year ago, I ended a 35 year marriage because I had come to the point where a big part of me was dying inside, trying to pretend to be “a happily married heterosexual.” I was 57.
I’ve known I was attracted to girls since I was old enough to remember…like standing on the [...]

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My story goes like this…
I was born in a small log cabin…okay, that’s not how it really started! The truth is I lived a semi-normal, typical dysfunctional Midwestern type childhood and adolescence. Small town mentality is a dangerous thing, especially to someone who knew instinctively that she didn’t fit or want to fit into being [...]

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My acceptance as a Christian and a lesbian has been a process, much like any growing and maturing process. At first I believed that the two were not compatible and in order to follow the inclinations I was born with, I would have to turn my back on and deny my God. I did this [...]

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I have always felt alone and ‘different.’ I just didn’t realize what the difference was until I was old enough to recognize that it was possible that I was a lesbian. My first experience with telling someone in my circle of friends about having lesbian thoughts, was to be convinced to attend some ex-gay meetings [...]

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Dear Dee,
When I read your letter, I was so happy to know that you have finally found the peace you have been seeking after for so long. It always warms my heart to hear that people have found comfort in the Lord. Then, when I read the part where you quoted 1 Corinthians, I just [...]

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I was raised in a non-Christian, homophobic family. I became a Christian when I was nine years old. After watching a Billy Graham crusade on TV one evening, I went into my bedroom and asked Jesus to come into my heart. From then on I listened to every radio and TV preacher I could find [...]

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I grew up in a family with no religion or spirituality whatsoever. I often refer to them as devout atheists. As a very young child, I was allowed, not without hesitation on my parent’s part, to attend church and Vacation Bible School with my Seventh Day Adventist aunt and cousins. Throughout elementary and junior high [...]

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I am many things, two of which are Christian and lesbian. Here’s the story of how the two started out as a separate series of events but finally integrated.
My first memory is of God’s Spirit being a very powerful presence in my life. I was three years old when I asked my mother how to [...]

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