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Contents:
- WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY AND AMISH
- THE AMISH CLOSET – GROWG UP GAY A CLOSED COMMUNY
- WHY A GAY MAN SERV THE OLD ORR AMISH
- 'THERE’S SO MANY GAY HUTTER': A RARE VOICE BEGS PILGRIMAGE FOR ACCEPTANCE
- GROWG UP GAY AND AMISH AMERI: JAM SCHWARTZ
- WHY A GAY MAN SERV THE OLD ORR AMISH
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE GAY AND AMISH
At 17, he was removed om his home and muny. He was sent, by his parents, to an ex-gay relig unselor. He was not allowed to vis his parents and to this day, his extend fay and muny do not know why he “left.” * lgbt amish *
Wele to, a work for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenrAmish and ex-Amish!
THE AMISH CLOSET – GROWG UP GAY A CLOSED COMMUNY
What happens when a young man disvers he’s gay but the culture he is raised don’t addrs sexualy, much ls homosexualy? * lgbt amish *
I accepted that I was gay at a fairly young age, around 14. I felt some guilt and a lot of judgment, but no longer feared beg gay. When my parents disvered that I was gay at 17, they burst to tears and sent me to a non-Amish, ex-gay relig unselor.
He was sent, by his parents, to an ex-gay relig unselor.
WHY A GAY MAN SERV THE OLD ORR AMISH
* lgbt amish *
But what if you grew up a society that never talks about homosexualy? Beg Gay and Amish. Due to the relig beliefs of most Amish, is no surprise that homosexualy is not discsed.
His parents found out his was gay when he was 17.
Over tears streamg down their face, Thad’ parents sent him to a non-Amish, ex-gay relig unselor, hop of savg him. He had to leave his muny after his sister found a gay magaze he had been hidg, lled OUT.
'THERE’S SO MANY GAY HUTTER': A RARE VOICE BEGS PILGRIMAGE FOR ACCEPTANCE
What happens when a man disvers he’s gay but the culture he is raised don’t addrs sexualy, much ls homosexualy? Jam Schwartz, an LGBT poet and wrer who grew up an Amish muny Michigan, giv Sensa Nostra an si look at what ’s like to grow up gay a world where genr rol are strict and marriage between a man and woman is seen as an imperative. As Amish follow the church, not society, they haven’t progrsed on gay issu—they see homosexualy as lt, and that is that.
If an Amish youth out as gay, he or she will be quoted Scriptur (Levic is a classic read), shamed and prsured to renounce his or her ‘s’. I simply didn’t unrstand sexualy, let alone homosexualy.
Not knowg any openly gay people (Amish or otherwise) epened the mystery of this experience.
GROWG UP GAY AND AMISH AMERI: JAM SCHWARTZ
It all sort of me together for me when I began readg books wh gay characters.
It was around this time that I realized I was gay. Once I accepted my sexualy I wanted full gay liberatn. Dpe his Amish ignorance on the subject of homosexualy, Dad was a mol of Swiss tolerance.
WHY A GAY MAN SERV THE OLD ORR AMISH
“Dad I’m gay. The Amish approved of me stayg at the farm but not of my open homosexualy.
I started gog to gay diss around this time, met my lol LGBT muny (fay) and performed drag shows. When I walked to my first gay dis I was shakg. I wanted to wre about the gay Amish experience, be provotive, polil and an artist.
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