Nicole Serrano, Ex-Christian Singer-Songwriter, Comes Out as a Lesbian
The Advocate.Since then she’s created music with some of Christian music’s biggest names, like Chris Tomlin and Matt Maher. Serrano’s music has also been featured on The Kardashians, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Good Doctor.Now she’s come out as a lesbian and as nonbinary, using she/they pronouns.The church she grew up in wasn’t affirming of queer people.
Instead, it taught that they went to hell. It was a narrative Serrano internalized, she says.That internalized homophobia stayed with them for most of their life.
Serrano says they dated every beautiful man that crossed their path until finally they couldn’t do it anymore. Eventually, the stress caused them debilitating panic attacks from anxiety.
They wound up in the emergency room a few times.Things changed about five years ago. She says she woke up and began going to therapy to help deal with her years of not revealing her true self.At the time, she worked for a megachurch. “I just slowly started to realize like, OK, there's a lot of holes in this whole like, church thing,” Serrano shares. “First of all, who was making the rules?
