… what we're all looking for
It would’ve been enough for this family to find peace. To come back home and go about their lives of quiet service. But they didn’t do that. They went home and started speaking up publicly for other LGBTQ+ Christians and their families in Sweden.
“What my parents needed most was someone who could help them understand that these things they’d been taught to believe were not true – that being gay isn’t a choice and that they hadn’t caused me to be gay.
My parents needed someone who would listen to their feelings and help them navigate what was a very new and frightening territory for them.”
“And sometimes, when you haven’t heard the words, “I’m proud of you,” just for being you – from the ones you’re supposed to hear it from the most – it takes a whole month of parades and people around the world recognizing you to even begin to make up for the loss.”
The Missing Peace 