OUT: Escaping Judgement & Finding Love

In this heartfelt and inspiring memoir, Lou Anne Smoot recounts what it was like to be a gay woman living a life of pretense in the conservative South. Her story is a personal journey through history, spanning the decades from 1953 to 2015, when Lou Anne, like many others, followed cultural, familial, and religious expectations in an attempt to keep her true self hidden and safe. Her struggle to find acceptance within herself and in the world, while reconciling her Baptist faith with her id...