CHRISTIAN
“Six months ago, I told my mom. She reacted really angrily. It wasn’t the reaction I thought she was going to have. She didn’t want me to be gay. She didn’t want me to have a boyfriend. She didn’t know how it was going to work in our Christian family. I wish she would have reacted differently. I wish she would have told me it was okay and that she still loved me. My relationship with her is fine, but we’re not really open with each other. I still talk to her, but she hasn’t really accepted it yet. It’s getting better though. My brothers don’t know it yet, but they probably expect it. The rest of my family will probably be angry that I’m talking about this. They see things in a different way. But I really want to be an activist for kids in small villages because their voices are unheard. I want them to know it’s okay to be who they are. I want them to love who they are.”
“People told me I was too public about my sexuality.”
“When you believe you are different, you think you are alone.”
“It was worth fighting for.”