 Topic: Q&A with Andrew Marin (Q1)
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J-Lou
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What led you to becoming actively involved in ministering to the GBLT community?
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Marin
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I was raised in a Caucasian dominated, upper middle class suburb of
Chicago. I never actually remember the topic of homosexuality ever
being brought up to me in my youth; but growing up in a conservative
town and attending a conservative church I quickly figured out what I
was supposed to think about the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender) community. I can honestly say that I was extremely
homophobic. I was scared of what I did not know, and at that time in my
life I believed that gay was just a word on a sheet of paper. It was
not real to me, nor did I ever want it to be real to me.
That all changed the summer after my freshman year in college at the
University of Illinois at Chicago when my three best friends all ‘came
out’ to me on three separate occasions! What do you say when those
closest to you confide that they aren’t totally who you think they are,
that there is a huge, hidden part of their life you’ve never known
about? How do you respond when they risk telling you that they
are what you’ve been taught to despise? How do you deal with that
ripping feeling in your heart, and the swirl of questions you don’t
want answered – and yet so desperately do?
At that moment the GLBT community was no longer something I could not
put a face to; it was my best friends. At that time I was faced with a
choice, continue to live my life how I always had or completely step
out of everything I ever knew and be loyal to my best friends. In my
mind my only choice was to fully immerse myself, as much as a straight
male could, into the large GLBT population in Chicago with my best
friends as guides. Out of that six-year commitment The Marin Foundation
was birthed.
Edited by Marin - 13/July/2007 at 1:13am
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