Single, Gay, Christian

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Gregory Coles shares his story with us:

I’ll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realised his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys.

I’ll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered the words I’ve whispered a thousand times since: “I’m gay.”

I’ll tell you what it’s like to know that much of my Christian family will forever consider me unnatural, dangerous, because of something that feels as involuntary as my eye colour. And to know that much of the LGBTQ community will disagree with the way I’ve chosen to interpret the call of Jesus, believing I’ve bought into a tragic, archaic ritual of self-hatred. But I’ll tell you good things too, hopeful things, funny things.

I’ll tell you what it felt like the first time someone looked me and said, “You are not a mistake.”

I’ll tell you that my life has never been more beautiful than when it was most brokenhearted.