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She said she knew she was gay when she was 13, and she'd wept into her bedroom carpet wishing God would end her life. But when she arrived for the interview, I was unaware of what was about to unfold. I would help her through the process as much as I could. She was to come to my house to tell me her story. It was not shock it was alarm for what might happen to her. "You made a noise." She mimics the sharp inhalation I thought I had disguised.
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"I was too nervous to even say it," she says now, pausing to look up, remembering what happened as she watched the words being read. She pushed a piece of paper in my direction, a summation of her life. Two weeks before her announcement, she asked me to write the story that would announce her sexuality to the world. She lived alone.īut on 13 August 2014, now back in Britain, as a leading religious commentator, and a friend of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Beeching decided to fight. Her relationships with her evangelical loved ones did too. They do not like lesbians there women who love women are "sinners," not poster girls. She was raised an evangelical Christian in Britain before becoming a major star on the American Christian rock scene, her songs booming from every megachurch across the Bible Belt. The complexities and repercussions of doing this stretched far beyond her family and friends. A year ago, at the age of 35, Vicky Beeching said the words that can save a person: I am gay.