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Morning Brew – Christian singer Vicky Beeching comes out as a lesbian
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Here’s a #TBT of Jennifer Knapp at the Grammys in 2001.
The openly gay Christian singer’s Facing the Music memoir is coming out on October 7 from Simon & Schuster.
Speaking of Christian music stars, Vicky Beeching has come out as a lesbian. The British vocalist tells The Belfast Telegraph her story.
“Realising that I was attracted to [women] was a horrible feeling. I was so embarrassed and ashamed. It became more and more of a struggle because I couldn’t tell anyone. I increasingly began to feel like I was living behind an invisible wall. The inner secrecy of holding that inside was divorcing me from reality — I was living in my own head. Anybody I was in a friendship with, or anything I was doing in the church, was accompanied by an internal mantra: ‘What if they knew?’ It felt like all of my relationships were built on this ice that would break if I stepped out on to it.”
At 35, she’s decided being truthful is the way to only way to live.
“It is heartbreaking. The Church’s teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it’s broken, I want to be part of the change.”Congratulations, Vicky.
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A bisexual woman do not live together and probably aren’t dating.
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