After a seven-year hiatus, Christian folk singer Jennifer Knapp is back with new music, a new understanding of herself and a barn-burner of a reveal: She’s a lesbian.
People had speculated on Knapp’s sexual identity for years, and the singer decided to put those rumors to rest for good. “For whatever reason the rumor mill has persisted for so long, I wanted to acknowledge,” she says. “I don’t want to come off as somebody who’s shirking the truth in my life.”
She also says that she’s never “struggled” with her sexual identity.
“The struggle I’ve had has been with the church, acknowledging me as a human being, trying to live the spiritual life that I’ve been called to, in whatever ramshackled, broken, frustrated way that I’ve always approached my faith,” she says. “I still consider my hope to be a whole human being, to be a person of love and grace. So it’s difficult for me to say that I’ve struggled within myself, because I haven’t. I’ve struggled with other people. I’ve struggled with what that means in my own faith. I have struggled with how that perception of me will affect the way I feel about myself.” (Christianity Today)
