Causes For Queerness? How Trying To “Fix” Us Actually Breaks Us

By the time I was in my mid-twenties, established in my administrative job at the Christian organization, Youth With A Mission (YWAM), I had worked hard to build protective walls around my bisexuality (which I still thought of in terms of being only kind of gay). I had intentionally gained an unhealthy amount of weight to make myself unattractive to other men, carving out a space in the Christian world as someone battling the strongholds of my sin nature. As destructive as it was, it was the...