Gay and Happy: The Journey of a PHC Alumna | Anonymous @ queerphc
Now, seven years after graduating from PHC, I teach at a small liberal arts college where there are many LGBTQ people who are out of the closet, who are married or partnered, and who are thriving. I have realized that gay people are individuals, not stereotypes. In sermons, I had heard gay people equated with child molesters. I was not a child molester, so how I could I be gay? So finally having friends and role models who were gay was instrumental in allowing me to accept my own sexual orientation. They did not “turn” me gay. Gay people will always be a minority. It’s easier to be straight, no matter how accepting the environment. But, until I met these people, I didn’t have any idea that one could be gay and kind, or gay and happy.