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Episode: When Your Husband Comes Out as Gay: Kelly Foster Lundquist on Her “Beard” Marriage
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For the 251st episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes author and professor Kelly Foster Lundquist.
Kelly’s debut memoir, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage, unpacks her first marriage to a man who would later come out as gay. Raised in evangelical purity culture, Kelly married young and spent years navigating a relationship shaped by religious expectations and conversion therapy's ripple effects.
In this episode, we talk about discovering the reality of her husband’s sexuality in real time, the psychological aftermath of that unraveling, and the challenge of learning to trust herself again. We also get into queer theory as a...