Hey, new friends. I'm a 31 year olf female. I've been shoving myself back in the closet for about 15 years because I was really religious and worked for concervative Christian agencies. I did all the support groups an had people pray for me a lot, trying to stay in my closet in order to try to follow what the Bible seemed to say. Over the last months or maybe several years, my faith is falling apart. Which means that I can finally wonder, what if I could actually like who I am? What if I could actually be proud of who I am? What if maybe I don't have to be single forever? What if I could feel good about being a whole, sexual person? What if I could have the same grace for myself that I have for other people? I need to do a lot of processing right now regarding my sort of "ex-gay" experience though I never liked calling it that. Also, needing to process figuring out if there is any spiriuality I can save rather than just completely scrapping and throwing out that whole area of life (which is what I am kind of doing now, but it seems a bit excessive). Could someone point me in the right direction for forums and threads where those could be topics? Thanks! Katchoo
Welcome to the community! I know a couple christian LGBT people. There are an increasingly large number of LGBT friendly churches that accept us now, and maybe you could look at joining one of those organizations if you do not want to entirely abandon your religion if you find it helpful to you. Here is a list of some of the LGBT friendly churches in Georgia from PFLAG Atlanta: Faith, Religion And Homosexuality | PFLAG Atlanta
I hope we can be whoever we want one day without caring about others' judgements. And it would be better if they just don't judge.
