When Mattie was in school, she would get crushes on her female classmates and teachers. She explained:"I wasn't sure what was going on and what the crushes made me. We get the message that homosexuality is a sin, and that if you have gay inclinations, you can expect family estrangement, job discrimination, friends dumping you and so on."You were damned if you told someone how you felt, and you were damned if you didn't. Where I lived, in a blue-collar neighborhood, you got verbally and [...]
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