My parents do not know about my sexuality. They would not take it well. I know for a fact my mom would react very negatively. There would be much religious debate and basically telling me that my “feelings” towards women are just something I need to overcome.  I’m not so sure how my dad would take it. He understands that being queer is something you are born with and not a choice and doesn’t have a problem with “the gays” (Except the ones who are all agressive and in-your-face about it. But he has a problem with anyone who is in-your-face about anything…as do I) However, I’m not sure how he would take having his daughter be queer.

As previously stated: “After studying what the Bible really said and didn’t say about same-sex relationships I came to the conclusion that the Bible doesn’t condemn the LGBT community. Plus God loves all of us and wants us to be happy. Why would he create me the way I am and then tell me I can’t be happy? Makes no sense”

The only inner turmoil I had was regarding my faith. After studying what the Bible really said and didn’t say about same-sex relationships I came to the conclusion that the Bible doesn’t condemn the LGBT community. Plus God loves all of us and wants us to be happy. Why would he create me the way I am and then tell me I can’t be happy? Makes no sense. So that’s when my inner turmoil stopped.

The first person I came out to was my good friend Renee, who I knew was/is very open minded and actually has been called a “fag hag” before (she thinks it’s hilarious). It was really drama free..we were talking about something and I just causally dropped that I was bisexual and she just said something along the lines of “Oh I didn’t know that…that’s cool.” And that was it :)

Where to begin? I was raised in a very conservative Christian household. I did not personally know anyone who was in the LGBT community (let alone there was anything other than gay or straight) until my best friend, Ryan, came out as gay in our junior year of highschool.  When I was younger I knew I wasn’t “the norm” because I appreciated my girlfriends in a way that was different that the way they interacted with me. I started to realize that I was attracted to women when I was a senior in highschool but, due to my religious upbringing, was at a loss for what to do/very confused.  I also wasn’t sure what I was; the idea that one could be bi/pan/fluid was unknown to me at the time.  I liked women…but I also knew I wasn’t a lesbian. It wasn’t until I got to college that I was exposed to identities other than gay, lesbian or straight (Let’s remember the extremely conservative background here…did I mention I went through 12 years of Catholic school? The two out lesbians at my all girls, private school were kicked out.) Once I got to college I knew for sure that I was pansexual.  At first it took a bit to come to terms with because of my faith. But upon further study of what the Bible really says (and doesn’t say) about same sex relationships I came to the logical conclusion that God made me the way I am and the way He intended. That’s good enough for me and I’ve been proud of who I am ever since.