Feeling Like an Orphan: Growing Up Liberal in an Evangelical Home

I feel a kinship with the LGBTQ community despite being a CIS female in a healthy relationship. Why is that? Despite my seeming success in life, great job, great family, I feel like an outsider.

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I was born into a stubbornly, if not devout, Evangelical family and while they did their best to love and accept me, the truth is that my lifestyle was not…