Prism & Pen Writing Prompt

Baptist Bigotry in Rural Florida

Or, why I got the hell out

Photo by Joshua Rodriguez on Unsplash

I am not any of the letters in LGBTQ. I knew gay people at my Northeast college but, after that, my world was very heterosexual — well, as far as I knew.

After returning to Florida following five years in metro-Atlanta, my husband and I settled in a rural area between…