“There Is No Such Thing as a Gay Person,” says ex-Political Lesbian

Claims that gay is not “who you are”

Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen
Published in
3 min readJul 5, 2024

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Katy Blackwood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (modified [cropped] by Editor)

Identity

Rosaria Butterfield’s story is very strange. Back in the 90s, she was a “tenured professor of English who identified as a lesbian and worked to advance the cause of LGBT equality.” Then, in 1999, she became a Christian and broke up with her girlfriend and, in 2001, she married a man.

Since then, she has been ingratiating herself with anti-LGBTQ+ Christians, becoming more and more anti-queer in her ideology. In 2023, she repented for using “transgendered pronouns”, calling it a sin to do so. She used to call conversion therapy “a heresy”, but later declared that “people are not harmed by change-allowing therapies.”

Now Butterfield is claiming that there is no such thing as a gay person. Writing for the conservative right-wing Christian website Clear Truth Media, Butterfield claims “that the gospel is on a collision course with the category of homosexual orientation” and that “it is nothing short of a delusion to believe that LGBTQ+ describes a different category of person.”

“There is gay sex, gay political activism, and even gay culture. But people who believe they are gay must repent of indwelling sin and flee from the culture that says gay is who you…

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Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen

Poet, lover, thinker, human. Poetry editor at Prism & Pen.