We at CTES understand this from a place of lived experience.
We also know that healing from the harms of these abusive practices is entirely possible.
We are often shamed, silenced, and isolated by churches that attempt to convert “pray the gay or trans away” from our community.
Our healing comes in the form of sharing our stories with each other.
Bringing our traumatic accounts of what really happened behind those closed doors, out into the light.
And growing in our understanding that we are each and everyone one of us, fearfully and wonderfully made.
That our queerness & identities are to be celebrated and embraced not rejected, othered, monstered and shamed.
Come & join us on this road to community healing.
We are abused in isolation.
We heal in community.