The story of Alana Chen

This is artwork for a new podcast series titled “Dear Alana,” which explores the struggles of same-sex attraction, faith and conversion therapy through the life and death of Alana Chen, a devout Catholic woman who wrestled with all three. (OSV News photo/courtesy Tenderfoot TV)

Interview: Alana Chen died by suicide in 2019. A fellow LGBT Catholic gets to the bottom of her

When Simon Kent Fung read about the death of Alana Chen, a 24-year-old Colorado woman who died by suicide in 2019, he broke down in the coffee shop where he learned the news. The details of their lives were so similar, he said, that he began to understand elements of his own life with greater clarity after reading about hers.

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