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CJ CJ wanted to use a dragon for his photo... Name: CJ Age: 19 Gender: Male Sexual orientation: Gay Religious denomination: Nondenominational (As of now at least. Denominations aren’t the most important thing in my being a Christian, I’ve regularly attended four different denominations throughout my life.) Education/career: Communications Favorite food: I’m mildly obsessed with sandwiches. I love pomegranates, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, persimmons, and oranges. Cucumber and spinach are daily staples of my diet. I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate because it sometimes gives me headaches. Favorite book: One Child is a really good book I recently read. Favorite movie: I don’t like being confined to an absolute favorite, but I loved Inside Out . Go watch it if you haven’t yet; it’s fantastic. Favorite color: Blue. My second favorite color is green. Hobbies/sports/interests: I play guitar. I like singing, I ride my boar...

Micah Hello! My name is Micah . I'm a 26-year-old trans man who just recently came out of the closet as pansexual . I tend to go between two different denominations, The United Church of Canada and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church , just depending on how much I want to put up with that week. I have one semester under my belt as a religious studies student at Burman University , although I'm looking to switch to a more non-denominational university in the future, as I want to be a United Church Minister one day. I hate to say it, but I don't have favourites . I tend to live in the moment and like whatever I'm cohabiting with in the moment. It gets kind of annoying because people call me wishy-washy, but it also makes me really easy to get along with! I love to read and write , though. I probably own two hundred books and I've read 2/3 of them . I enjoy making movies and have made a full-length documentary for the Seventh-Day Adventist church I was affilia...

Name: Nick Scarantino Age: 24 Gender: male Sexual orientation: homosexual Religious denomination: non-denominational Christian Education: B.S. in Biblical Studies Work: author | musician | blogger | Biblical scholar Dreams/goals in life: to ensure nobody feels alone or unloved Myers-Briggs type: INFP When did you first realize you were homosexual? Looking back, it was in elementary school. I wanted to spend more time with the boys than with the girls . Most of my friends were girls, but I could tell it was different than how the other boys wanted to spend time with them. Are you out? If so, when, how, and/or why did you come out? I am out now. After graduating from college, I slowly started to come out. I was working at a church at the time so it was a process starting with friends and coworkers (I was also working at Panera). But once I was fired from the church, I didn’t really care who knew anymore . I came out because I was tired of hiding who I was . B...

Kaleb Ashby My name is Kaleb Ashby . I am 24 years old , and I am a pansexual male . I work for Spokane AIDS Network doing HIV prevention, outreach, and testing. I am a non-denominational Christian . I want to make a positive difference, and be a big part in ending the AIDS epidemic. My favorite book is Harry Potter ; that series has molded me to be who I am and taught me to fight for what I believe, whether I have people backing me up or not. I love writing and reading. Slam poetry is a hobby of mine, and it’s one of my deepest passions. "I want to make a positive difference, and be a big part in ending the AIDS epidemic."

  Christy Introductions For the most part, upon meeting someone new, a “typical” person would start to fill out a mental fact sheet. Cover the basics, what you plainly see on the surface. Name: Christy. Age: college-aged kid. Height: tall. Hair: dark. Sex: female. As an introduction at work or a smile across the street begins to evolve into an acquaintanceship, a friendship, a whatever-you-want-it-to-be-ship, though, that fact sheet isn’t enough. A friend would soon discover that I can’t stand my full name, so using anything but Christy is a no-go. I’m 20 years old , younger than most of my friends, but not all. I was raised Methodist, but am a bit more of an eclectic Christian now that I’m an adult. I’m a cisgender woman, and though my skin is light, I’m proud of my Native American heritage. But even that is still just the basics. I’m an INTJ , a relatively rare and analytical personality type. I spend more time observing and listening than I do talking, but I can cert...