What I learned growg up as a gay Jehovah’s Wns north Cork – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• THE HARDSHIP OF BEG A GAY JEHOVAH'S WNS
• BEG A GAY JEHOVAH'S WNS MA DANIEL FEEL LIKE HE 'DIDN'T BELONG ANYWHERE'
• WHAT I LEARNED GROWG UP AS A GAY JEHOVAH’S WNS NORTH CORK
• INSI AND OUTST: MULTIFACETED STIGMA AND REMPTN THE LIV OF GAY AND LBIAN JEHOVAH'S WNS

THE HARDSHIP OF BEG A GAY JEHOVAH'S WNS

gay hardship. I was also gay.

Whilst I was told I uld have Jehovah’s favour if I did not practice my homosexual feelgs (like a straight person uld whilst not mtg fornitn) I personally felt that was different if you are gay.

BEG A GAY JEHOVAH'S WNS MA DANIEL FEEL LIKE HE 'DIDN'T BELONG ANYWHERE'

Regardls of how much self-ntrol I manift, I was gay. We are not people wh homosexual feelgs; we are gay people, gay to the re. For me and other gay Jehovah’s Wns, our attractn feels natural too - but for men.

But spe not actually engagg homosexual activy, jt bee we are gay, we are somethg that Jehovah apparently tts. Sayg that beg gay is not normal and we have to be fixed, pecially when to our feelgs are pletely normal and natural to . Many tim I have sat through meetgs and the topic of homosexualy or homosexuals have e up and I crge at what I’m hearg and I have to get up to go to the toilet jt to stop hearg , bee I don’t want to be remd how beg gay is wrong and how gay people will be stroyed at Armageddon.

Y, I know only refers to those who are practisg homosexuals, but knowg how God hat homosexuals and knowg that I am one and n’t fix that is mentally bilatg. Sometime afterwards, I msed up and engaged light homosexual activy.

WHAT I LEARNED GROWG UP AS A GAY JEHOVAH’S WNS NORTH CORK

At this pot I had not accepted I was gay and bee of the judicial procre the elrs and my fay had to be told.

A gay worldly uple started studyg wh Jehovah’s Wns up Birmgham. Whilst imprsed wh their level of fah orr to do this, is sad gay people are nied very basic human rights, the right to love someone and build a home wh that person. All gay people are this suatn.

I started to be stigmatised for beg gay.

INSI AND OUTST: MULTIFACETED STIGMA AND REMPTN THE LIV OF GAY AND LBIAN JEHOVAH'S WNS

I may be gay, but that do not make me a pedophile. I was not after sex, and had no plans to sexually attack the people, but bee I was outed as beg gay, people beme unfortable wh me.

A gay Jehovah's Wns never has that hope. As a gay Jehovah’s Wns, I nnot be alone wh eher sex. To sum up why the life of a gay Jehovah’s Wns is so stctive, you;.

Growg up gay and wh the Jehovah's Wns muny, Daniel Tnton says his life has been filled wh isolatn, sadns and trma. "He says members of the ngregatn would refer to homosexuals as "the vil" or "mons". "That was how homosexuals were always portrayed at the meetgs and bible discsns, so beg aware that you were gay, you really were odd.