Guard Your Heart, Part Two: Kathryn E. Brightbill

“When you’re the model homeschool child, ‘gay’ is something that happens to other people. As a kid it was those people I’d see on TV marching, or who my parents’ religious right friends would rail against, but it’s certainly not the sort of thing that a good little homeschooled church kid would consider to have anything to do with themselves.”

Guard Your Heart, Part One: Kathryn E. Brightbill

“Through all of this, I patted myself on my back because I wasn’t getting any ‘frivolous’ crushes on guys, and clearly this meant that I was super spiritual and doing a great job of guarding my heart. It turns out it had less to do with being super spiritual than it had to do with being super gay.”