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Coming Out | A Double Edged Experience

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By the time I reached my late 30’s I’d been out of the closet for years. My family knew I was gay (since middle school) and most of my closest friends had known since college. In my professional life, colleagues … Read the rest here

Coming Out | ‘Eternity’ Felt More Important

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So I’m putting myself out here, and this is completely out of character. A little background: I’m 44, and I married an incredible man 20 years ago. Together, we have two amazing children. And I am a lesbian.

I knew … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Looking For Connection

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A little over a year and a half ago, I destroyed my almost perfect family by telling my wife I was gay. I have had huge amounts of guilt for the pain I caused her, my kids, and myself with … Read the rest here

Coming Out | For Moments I Was Speechless

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I have been reading these coming out posts for a long time now. I usually read them with a little bit of envy and often with tears of sorrow because my coming out experience hasn’t been glittery or joyful. To… Read the rest here

Coming Out | To Just BE

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There was a time when I thought it was silly to have a day dedicated to “coming out,” a month dedicated to Pride, or even a purpose for groups like Latter Gay Stories especially these featured sections dedicated to coming … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Dusty

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I vividly remember being 13 years old, walking home from church on Sunday. As I walked alone, I started to tear up because I believed I would never have what most of the families at church had. You see I … Read the rest here

Coming Out | Our Magical Unicorn

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My coming out, probably like many of yours, did not go too well. My parents, specifically my mother, were not at all accepting of the idea. And for 6+ years afterwards, things were said to me that no child should … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m John

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There is a common phrase in hockey – don’t go to where the puck is, go to where it will be.

    I grew up an only child in a small town in Wisconsin.  At a young age, we joined … Read the rest here

Coming Out | I Had To Learn

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It all started in 2011 when my wife came out to me. We had what on the outside was the perfect marriage. Our kids were happy, we both had great careers and we were raising our children in the gospel. … Read the rest here

Hi, I’m Jonathan

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For me, growing up knowing I’m gay taught me one thing very early on: secrets keep you safe from social reprieve. Secrets keep you safe from losing that person you just want to be friends with. They shield you from … Read the rest here

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IN or OUT of Mormonism.

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10 hours ago

Dolly Parton, one of the greatest songwriters in American music and a beloved LGBTQ icon, has died at 80.

Dolly wrote thousands of songs, including “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You,” sold more than 100 million records, became a movie star and built Dollywood in the mountains where she grew up. Her Imagination Library, created in honor of a father who could not read, grew from one Tennessee county into an international program putting millions of free books into the hands of children.

And through all of it, Dolly remained openly and unapologetically Christian.

She also became one of country music’s earliest and most consistent friends to LGBTQ+ people. Brandi Carlile recalled being 15, queer and growing up in a small town when she read Dolly speaking in support of gay people. Carlile later described receiving that love from Dolly as “second only to God.”

Dolly supported marriage equality as early as 2009. She opposed efforts to restrict transgender people and wrote “Travelin’ Thru” for the transgender-themed film Transamerica. Gay people filled her audiences, worked for her and became part of the culture surrounding her.

But Dolly’s clearest explanation came when she was asked about Tennessee legislation targeting transgender people. She talked about the gay, lesbian and transgender people in her own family and among her employees, and about seeing how deeply rejection hurt them.

“I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”

And then: “If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business.”

She believed in God—and she believed LGBTQ+ people when they told her who they were. And she loved them without requiring anything in return.

The hair, rhinestones and larger-than-life image made Dolly a natural gay icon. Her character made the relationship last.

Country music lost a giant today and many of us lost a friend.

We will always love you, Dolly.
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16 hours ago

It’s a modern miracle how often an “unchanging” word of God has needed changing whenever the people holding power needed it to say something different.

What a time to be alive. 🫠
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Howard Ashman wrote “Part of Your World” in 1989. He was a gay man living in New York at the height of the AIDS crisis.

After having lost the love of his life and dealing with his own diagnosis, Howard wrote a song about a girl at the bottom of the ocean watching the world above the water. Longing to belong. Wondering if she’d ever get to be part of it.

It wasn’t a fictional story, it was a song about his life.
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