Good intro-type piece at the Washington Post, featuring many friends of mine!<\/p>\n
When Eve Tushnet converted to Catholicism in 1998, she thought she might be the world\u2019s first celibate Catholic lesbian.<\/p>\n
Having grown up in a liberal, upper Northwest Washington home before moving on to Yale University, the then-19-year-old knew no other gay Catholics who embraced the church\u2019s ban on sex outside heterosexual marriage. Her decision to abstain made her an outlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone I knew totally rejected it,\u201d she said of the church\u2019s teaching on gay sexuality.<\/p>\n
Today, Tushnet is a leader in a small but growing movement of celibate gay Christians who find it easier than before to be out of the closet in their traditional churches because they\u2019re celibate. She is busy speaking at conservative Christian conferences with other celibate Catholics and Protestants and is the most well-known of 20 bloggers who post on spiritualfriendship.org<\/a>, a site for celibate gay and lesbian Christians that draws thousands of visitors each month.<\/p>\n