Category: Christian lesbians

Lettera di una figlia lesbica a suo padre

Testimonianza di una madre con figlio gay raccolta dalla Pastoral de la Diversidad Sexual (PADIS Cile), su Revista Mensaje (Cile), mensile dei gesuiti cileni, n. 642, settembre 2015, pp. 23-24. Liberamente tradotta dai volontari del Progetto Gionata. Caro papà, pensare a te mi riporta alla mente un’infinità di ricordi che mi parlano della tenerezza del tuo cuore. Io sono solita...

From lake como A christian lesbian tells her story

Testimonianza pubblicata su Acqua di Fonte, n.5, dicembre 1997 Non è facile raccontare la propria esperienza, non è facile comunicare ciò che si è provato, ciò che si è scoperto di essere ad un tratto del proprio cammino esistenziale. Forse non si riesce a parlarne con facilità perché spesso non si vuole ancora parlarne a se stessi prima ancora che...

Being an LGBTQ+ Adventist. My story

Text by Alicia Johnston* taken from the volume The Bible and LGBTQ Adventists: A theological conversation about same-sex marriage, gender, and identity, Published by Primedia eLaunch LLC, United States, 2022, part one. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Project When I left my job to become a pastor, many of the people who loved me were seriously worried about me. AND...

My name is Audrey and I am a young Christian lesbian

Audrey's testimony taken from the Beloved Arise website (United States). Freely translated by Teresa Mugno, volunteer at La Tenda di Gionata Since I was born I have always been super involved with the church, being the daughter of a pastor! I realized I was a lesbian when I was 16 and I was terrified. I saw girls on TikTok who I had huge crushes on,...

Coming out was not the loss of my faith, but the truest way to live it

Reflections by Shelley Washington* published on The Advocate website (United States), 11 October 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Project I remember that, since I was a child, I have always been open to the calls that I felt coming within me. There were those who spoke of messages from the universe, those of a greater force, those of an inner energy that pushes you in the right direction....

Lesbian and catholic. When i loved my different ones

Testimony of BP, 24 years old, Donna Cis Lesbian of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), published in Testemunhos by diversidade: História de Fé, Amor and Comunhão (testimonies of diversity: history of faith, love and communion), by the Rede Nacional de Grupos Católicos LGBT (Brazil) 2020. “Because, like the body, it is a whole with many limbs, and ...

Freedom is to tell the Truth. my path of catholic lesbian

Testimony of EC, 24 years old, non-binary lesbian person from Teresina (Brazil), published in Testemunhos da Diversidade: história de fé, amor e comunhão (Testimonies of Diversity: story of faith, love and communion), edited by the Rede Nacional de Grupos Católicos LGBT (Brazil), 2020. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata Ho Project 24 years and for seven years I lived pretending to...

With our life we ​​testify in the church that our love has the same dignity as any other love

Testimony of Fabiana and Luana of the Christian group LGBT+ Sicily during the prayer vigil "Church home for all, starting from borders" to the participants in the jubilee pilgrimage of "La Tenda di Gionata and the other associations" in the church of the Jesus of Rome on September 5, 2025 we are Fabiana and Luana. We fell in love four years ago, during a meeting of Christians ...