Sarah Mosteller is a lesbian in her early 20s. She spoke about how she came out somewhat unexpectedly in her teens, and about how her church community reacted.

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Sarah Mosteller: My church never really took a stance on queer people. They just never spoke about it, and they didn't really say anything about gay people being wrong or whatever.

They didn't say anything explicitly like that, so I never knew what their stance was because they never said it. Looking back, that's kind of saying a lot, that they never really spoke about that.

So, part of like my coming out was I had a friend, a close friend, in the church, and I was very involved and active – my mom was the lead singer at the church, an

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