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I am an ex JW , not gay.. but I had sex for the first time at the age of 21.. I remember being terrified my mom would find out I would be disfelloweshiped .. but then I left home and came to my senses. It never made sense to me and I had so many doubts in what I was being taught..

What an amazing man. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with all of us.

i herd the story behind this so y Question.. WTF isnt in Mexico then?

I can relate to the JW as I was born into JW, until I was 7yrs old. My older sisters were 10 and grew up and now are practice pagans 😂 my mum was shunned and thrown out of our congregation because she had a baby with another man before her divorce was finalised from my dad. My mum got into Astrology, tarot when I was 11 and she found that she was clairvoyant. I grew up with one religion and ended up on the other spectrum 😂 Both sides weren't good and I've grown up split between two worlds. I'm now 39 on 27th December 😂 oh yes that was a problem also,my birthday was so close to Christmas day. My dad hoped I wasn't born on Jesus's birthday. We didnt celebrate any holidays, including our birthdays (especially mine) me and my siblings weren't out of JW until we stopped having visits with our father. Growing up was hard children didn't like me because of being JW and my mum being mixed race. So I grew up isolated from my peers and others and was bullied all throughout my school years. I was pulled out of nursery twice for bullying and i went to other schools when my mum moved back and forth after the split with my dad. We went into a women and children refuge. I went to 4 different schools and struggled with reading and spelling. Even though I was no longer JW I was concider strange, weird and so much more. I had a small group of friends as a teen because my guard was so high up, i never knew who actually genuinely liked me for me. So most of the time I wondered on my own because that's where I could find peace, I developed sever anxiety at 6, I was used to being isolated, so isolation became my safe place. It became everyones aggravation. Trying to make my friends understand what was going on within me was difficult so i became distant out of not wanting to burden them with my problems or even hurt them. I couldn't imagine still being in JW having my own children now. The pain I already went through as a child JW was bad enough and traumatic. I lost both my parents differently because of JW, I also lost other relationships that I could of had with children of my own age. The abuse sent my mum into madness and is a bipolar. I can't have a normal relationship with my mother because of the damage that was caused after. We went from one abuse to another right up into my adulthood with my own children's father. To this day on my own, raising my children, I make the most of what I have. I have faith, but all religions put a bad taste in my mouth. I'm am still respectful to others who have chosen a religious path. I hope those people also learn to respect other people's choices to live and to love life that makes them content. After all humans as a whole, are striving for the same thing in life..... love, peace and freedom. 💖🫂

I have a great story about jws. I was at home on a weekend with husband. There was a knock on the door, it was jw. My husband thought it would be hilarious to let them in. I excused myself to the bathroom, opened the window and went over to a friends house to watch for them. 2 hours they were there..🤭 they earned it.👍

She is so uneducated. She doesn’t even know all the ways HIV can be transmitted (aka oral). She will look back and feel awful. And the girl on this podcast is just as uneducated and blindly being like “you go girl” 🙄

As striaght presenting queer - it is assumed that you hiding your sexuality and having repeatedly especially in a professional setting

Wow absolutely relate to this experience in school. Like this is EXACTLY HOW IT IS!!! PAINFUL really.

Freedom from religion is our key to true happiness as a species

I was cutting onions when he read from the book. Not an ideal combination. So brave, open, vulnerable. Having a role model like Luke share his story will hopefully be so helpful for many kids out there. ❤

Okay, at around minute 15 where he is talking about the only image of gay men we could see being as a clown. Damn. This. This is why, growing up in the US south in the 70's and early 80's I could not let myself admit I was gay. I didn't want people to have more reasons to laugh AT me.

I never knew Luke was gay, I´m not really into famous people like actors, singers aso, lives. If I like an actor I like them for their acting, same thing with singers. I never really know anything about their private lives unless it´s in my face. But this story got me really interested and now I want to read his book. What a gorgeous man he seems to be. Hot, I´ve always thought so, sexy man. Talented actor and now I need to get his book. Religion is a good thing for some people and for others it can be so damaging, it creates so much hat and despair. It´s actually crazy that something that is meant to be all about love and acceptance, does so much harm instead. I´ve always stayed out of it, even though I was born into the catholic church, but I realized very quickly that I wasn´t welcome there, cos I was different being a gay child myself. Sad really. But like Luke said in this awesome interview; it gets better for the most people. Just hang in there kids, you will find your family and life will be a celebration. Subscribing to this channel! ❤❤

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I am so happy for you, and thank you for sharing your journey with us... it means the world for many people in the same situation, for many young kids feeling pain, and the struggle of thinking about being hate by those you love. ( sorry about my english, not my first language ) 🙏🏽 Thank you ❤💐

I love these 3, I need them in my life every day! Cheers!❤

Such an interesting interview. It is interviews like this that will hopefully raise people's awareness of how their attitudes affect people's lives, both good and bad. ❤

I love him

I was lucky when l told my mother in thelate 70s.My family had largely ceased going to church by then and had ñever been strict.So, religion did not hold me back though my own introversion did.

You both act as if your generation had it harder as if the previous generations had mobile phones and the internet.

How is a birthday considered paganism? I'm not religious cause to me religion causes too many issues for people. I respect people's beliefs but I choose not to have a religion. I grew up around the LGBT so to me that was all normal. I even had gay uncles who helped raise me with my mum. I'm proud of Luke Evans coming out.

Well Christians are supposed to focus on the resurrection of Christ and not his birth.

Next I want to hear that he is an ex gay. That’s what I see ..

Oh,he looks terrible!

It's this simple, no one freely chooses to be gay. It's not a choice, it's not inherited, it is not a condition. It is an orientation like you have blue eyes. Or red hair, etc. 6:37

So many questions I have was answered here, so thank you. I’m also glad to hear she is/was taking PrEP in order to help further protect herself. Im not here to judge but I can’t help but have a strong suspicion that she was abused somewhere in her early childhood. I wish I could tell her to slow down because when she reaches 40 she will think differently about these experiences and about her family life.

Yet no fire and sulphur when Lot then went up into the mountains and biffed his own daughters.

Well said keep up the great work! ✨

I was born into JW's third generation of elders, "pioneers" (missionaries), Bethelites, etc. in the mid 1950s. Everyone I knew was JW. I was asexual, but there wasn't even a category with that name. My entire life I was accused of being a sexual time bomb about to go off, couldn't even have female friends because that might be lesbian. Was counseled about walking arm in arm with a female cousin because onlookers "might think I was gay." Was forced to marry (a man) and then raped by the elder who forced me (marry this person or I'll disfellowship you because if he's attracted to you we KNOW you have seduced him with sex - if you are not engaged by the end of the month you will be disfellowshipped".) The elder, of course, was protected by the other elders who backed his play. Finally divorced and out in one fell swoop in my 40s. Found out about asexuality in my late 50s.

Puberty blockers are used successfully with precocious puberty because right on time for their normal puberty they stop. In the case of gender-confused but physically normal children they are stopping puberty when it should be happening.

Religion causes so much suffering and damage to people. I wish we could be rid of it once and for all. In the words of the late CH (RIP), religion poisons everything and god is not great. Humans put so much energy into their beliefs and religious faiths and very often at the expense of learning, truth, facts and even the smallest modicum of humanity.

Ex-Jw and gay guy from Wales and every single part of this story even down to the details rings true ❤

I had a big sexual crush on Luke Evans and Orlando Bloom in the movie, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I love to hear good looking white Brits speak English. I was shock Billy Porter was is gay husband in the gay movie, Our Son. Not only was it a horrific movie, I couldn't see good looking Luke Evans having such a feminine non attractive partner. I would love for Luke to visit Washington, D.C.🤣🤣

Love this talk since it really sheds a positive light on sex workers. Lily talks about how she doesn't need to do sex work but rather chooses to do it since she loves sex. She also has great relationships with her friends and family who are supportive. That isn't always the case though since sex work is very misunderstood. Hell, sex is still quite misunderstood for many. Sad to see so many disparaging comments. I can't say I'm surprised since most societies today have taken a conservative turn.

I've always loved Luke Evans, great actor. My heart goes out to him, hearing his struggles as a child made me really emotional; I was bullied in school albeit not for the same reason. It's so isolating and sad. So happy for him that his parents came through for him and he gets to live this full life which he very much deserves ❤😊

Live your best life! Hope you get great roles!

😂 just another cry babies interview!

I wish i could hug him, hes got so much pain 😭

I don’t care what he is. The person who he is as an actor, friend, family member and a good person. God wouldn’t deny him!

Oh yeah the sims, relatable ❤

I hate religions ! I never understood why they forbid 2 persons who are in love to love each other. Religion should be about love. I’m sure if God existed he would love everyone!

You're completely right. Thank you for this information!

☝☝☝ with you all the way bro - I'm 75 and identify completely with your upbringing. Thanks for your honesty. 💌💌💌

I feel bad for people brought up in religious households. I have nothing good to say about any religion.

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I’m 58 and left at 16. My hairdresser was also a JW and I knew he was gay but he ended up getting married and having a child so he would be accepted….4 years later he keft the religion and moved away so he could be openly gay. I hate the religion and their non acceptance of so much.

Ex jw also born in 1979, this interview hit hard. I knew Luke was an exjw and knew his parents were still in contact which is rare. This was an amazingly raw sharing of his experience. I hope it gives other gay JWs hope. With love and thanks. ❤

JEHOVAS WITNESSES IS NOT A RELIGION BUT A DANGEROUS CULT!!!

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Jordan Peterson says nothing "nasty" about homosexual/gay people.