038: Stephen Johnson Pt.1 on growing up a Jehovah’s Witness and dealing with ecclesiastical sexual abuse and shaming

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This interview is a part of a series of interviews of LGBT people from other highly conservative religions where LGBT people have substantial commonality with the LGBT Mormon Experience.  In part 1 of 2 Stephen Johnson talks about his childhood and adolescence in the Jehovah’s Witness community, which include substantial physical and sexual abuse from his ecclesiastical leaders, and substantial shaming about his homosexuality.

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Link to part 2 here

Part 1

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