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Dani Roberts

Dani Roberts

Aug 11, 2026

3:59
And I'd love to hear one that you'd like to share.
4:01
Yeah, thank you for asking.
4:04
I did not know that I was gay, queer, until I was 23.
4:10
I grew up in a Roman Catholic household, so CCD every Saturday, church every Sunday, kind of against my will, but, you know, had to do what my parents wanted.
4:22
And you hear all of that messaging that you hear in church that, you know, gay people are bad and they're going to go to hell and that it's a sin.
4:31
And I think my younger self was, well, you know, I'm I'm good, so I can't possibly be gay.
4:36
And that's kind of how I lived my life until my early 20s.

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