This deeply moving account has been added to our LGBTQI Listening Tour: An Open Letter to Our Bishops in the USA and Canada.

See the Fifty Years after Stonewall and extensive Sexuality and Gender sections in our Archives.

Andrew Fedosov is a television director, producer, and writer in Toronto ON. He left the Church shortly after coming out, and returned twenty years later to sing as a bass, sometimes a tenor, in his local Russian Orthodox parish.

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