How one gay Catholic finds hope in building online community

How one gay Catholic finds hope in building online community

As a gay Catholic, I’ve often paradoxically felt invisible and under a microscope. At once alone and forgotten by the church, yet under constant scrutiny for fear that any mannerism or turn of phrase would out me as being gay. In the eight years since I started coming out, this invisibility has only intensified, as most churches in my local community are fixated on the condemnation of LGBTQ people rather than any messages of compassion. But for …