Originally Published November 19, 2007 My mother is a devout Christian woman and my father is a former army man who served the armed forces in Iraq. Telling them I was a lesbian was an experience in and of itself. I had known I liked women from the time I was 13 or 14 after my best friend became my girlfriend.

My mother is a devout Christian woman and my father is a former army man who served the armed forces in Iraq. Telling them I was a lesbian was an experience in and of itself. I had known I liked women from the time I was 13 or 14 after my best friend became my girlfriend.