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A Forbidn Rumsprga is a heartfelt romance between two gay Amish men.

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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.” * amish gay *

Wele to, a work for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr​Amish and ex-Amish! He was sent, by his parents, to an ex-gay relig unselor.

But what if you grew up a society that never talks about homosexualy?

'THERE’S SO MANY GAY HUTTER': A RARE VOICE BEGS PILGRIMAGE FOR ACCEPTANCE

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.

WHY A GAY MAN SERV THE OLD ORR AMISH

He had to leave his muny after his sister found a gay magaze he had been hidg, lled OUT. How do the Amish treat gay/LGBT members of their muny?

”One of the few – if not the only – openly gay Hutter, Hofer has bee a rare voice phg for greater acceptance among the muny, whose nearly 50, 000 members live more than 450 loni wtern Canada and the Uned Stat.

YOUNG, GAY – AND AMISH

“There’s so many gay Hutter and there’s nobody talkg about the subject. He first heard the word “gay” when he was outsi world felt far away, he says.

“We will be classed as traors God’s ey, and we will live the darkt day all of Canada’s history, ” lears wrote a letter to Pl Mart, Canada’s then-prime was soon after that Hofer began realisg he might be gay. On the lony, where many feared to even e the word gay, the ncept of a gay Huttere simply did not exist.

DEAR DAD: WE’VE BEEN GAY FOR A REALLY LONG TIME

“My dream is for the Huttere culture to be acceptg of gay people like me, ” he posted onle.

“I did to start a nversatn about homophobia on the lony. ” In dog so, Hofer had fally found his place the Huttere muny – as a voice on the outsi phg for change Hofer ns a support group on Facebook for gay Hutter. “Bee there’s a lot of gay Hutter at home and they’re not gog to go away.

GROWG UP GAY AND AMISH AMERI: JAM SCHWARTZ

Are you gay? Not only gay, but out to the vast majory of iends and workers.

GAY AMISH COUPLE

I alternately told myself that I remaed discrete to rpect the Amish belief that homosexualy is a s, or stggled wh the wardice of an ultimately untenable secrecy.

A gay man’s journey to the Old Orr Amish. It was only a matter of time before a disgntled muny member learned I was gay and began sharg the news.

As a younger man I was a vol advote for gay rights, strint and unbendg whenever the topic was broached.

LOL BLOG: BEYOND BUGGI AND BONS: TE STORI OF THE AMISH – GAY AMISH

We then stggle through their procs of disbelief that a gay man uld rpect the view that homosexualy is a s. Ined, as one Amish iend wh whom I shared my sexualy told me ankly, “Amish see gays as the lowt of the low.

GAY AND MENNONE

This was the ntext which the mister asked me, potblank, if I was gay, the vigte that opens this article. Some who learned that I was gay refed to work wh me anymore. As an olr gay man, I rell too well the ephets, the threats, and the gradatn that me the early years of announcg my sexualy.

CSA’s Oriented to Love dialogu ve nversatn among those wh differg views on homosexualy. I know not where God leads, but for the moment, I am so thankful that he giv a gay man a place wh the Old Orr Amish.

“If an Amish youth out to his parents and says ‘I’m gay, ’ then they really don’t have any choice, ” says Jam Schwartz, a gay man who was raised an Amish muny. Wasn't that Amish serial killer, Eli stutzman gay?

YOUNG, GAY – AND AMISH

I remember readg about he se years ago and he was well known the lol gay muny for havg multiple partners.

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