Hello!

I'm 22 years old, a student in a community college soon to be transferring to a university for my major in business and financing with a minor in accounting, and I'm so happy to have found this community as I've read some threads in the past before registering and it has inspired me and keeps me happy. Born and raised in the South, I've come from a Christian family that still believes in the notion that gays are going to Hell *rolls eyes* I use to believe that too until I started to get attracted to males by freshmen year in high school. I kept it mostly a secret until starting last year when I opened up to three of my close friends through social media. Within that time frame I've also educated myself through sites and videos of how accepting God really is despite what we do or what our preferences are. The biggest obstacle however will be my family and their old fashioned ways. I feel that it's my duty to educate them about the truth in what it really says in the Bible and how it's used to keep the LGBT community as a subordinate class just like how it was used for slavery, to keep blacks as subordinate doing Jim Crow days, etc. I hope to meet new people here on this forums from all backgrounds. Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgenders, Atheists, different races, religions, and cultures!