I Fell in Love with My Best Friend: Achsah’s Story

“When we stripped away those rules and took off the masks, I found that I could finally breathe.”

Queer in a Courtship: Charis’s Story

“So I’m gay. Like super gay. Discovered boobs and my-life-was-changed-forever gay. How in the world did I end up in a heterosexual, super religious courtship?”

I Don’t Want To Be The Girl Who Ruined Her Parents’ Lives: Deborah

“It is just so, so much pain and anguish. I don’t want to be ‘the girl who ruined her parents’ lives just so she could ruin her own’ to the whole home-school community in the area. I wish I could make them see the truth of how much my life sucks less since I am honest with others and myself about who I love.”

Tough Love: Susie

“I thought my family would accept it. My mom started asking me if I was gay or if I thought I was gay when I was about 14 years old and a few of my siblings had asked me as well as I got older. I had shown little to no interest in the opposite sex, and we all know how abnormal that is in the homeschool community.”