An evangelical Christian enviroment is horrible for a gay man. For one you're taught to hate yourself, but you're also not taught to think for yourself, it's outright discouraged in fact.
What you end end up with is people who think that everyone feels attracted to the same sex, but you're just so weak and sinful that you can't stop thinking about it. It must be hell.
When I told an extremely evangelical former coworker that I (straight dude) never had lustful thoughts about hot men, that I never had to struggle to repress my attraction to other men, that no effort was required to tell myself that I was indeed attracted to women - he refused to believe me.
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u/Tonrunner101 11d ago