I Survived but Many Don’t: Homophobia Kills

Image: Pixabay Content note: homophobia, religious and spiritual abuse By Elora Dodd  Growing up in a staunchly conservative Christian home, my parents would demand the remote the instant a gay person came on television. If I lagged a second too long, my parents would unleash an angry lecture about how dangerous it was to “normalizeContinueContinue reading “I Survived but Many Don’t: Homophobia Kills”

Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 4

Photo: Image by Melissa from Pixabay Content note: child sexual abuse, domestic violence, homophobia, conversion therapy attempts, forcing someone to not be gay, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe Continued from Part 3 During my childhood and teen years, my baby brother was tortured by my cruel, selfish father in the Independent Fundamental BaptistContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 4”

Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 3

Photo: Image by WOKANDAPIX from Pixabay Content note: child abuse, homophobia, Christian Nationalism, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe Continued from Part 2 Just because my brother is a gay man, he has been outed, shamed, manipulated, physically beaten up, shunned, abandoned, humiliated, cheated, gossiped about, kept from serving musically in an Independent FundamentalContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 3”

Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 2

Photo: Pixabay Content note: child abuse, homophobia, conversion therapy attempts, forcing someone to not be gay, suicidal ideation, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe Continued from Part 1 The next person to try to “fix” my baby brother was our IFB grandmother, when she was told about my brother’s “problem.” She is our father’sContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 2”

Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 1

Photo Credit: Image by Dmytro from Pixabay Content note: child abuse, homophobia, forced outing, suicidal ideation, religious and spiritual abuse By Whiltierna Wolfe It’s June again. This past Pride Month in 2022, I wrote this about my brother. Now more than ever, I feel it’s imperative to humanize the LGBTQIA community after so much hate.ContinueContinue reading “Deconstructing from fundamentalism finally allowed me to authentically love my brother who is gay: Part 1”