I Came Out While Attending The Most Conservative University In America

Ellen Quirke
4 min readMar 18, 2021
Photo by Stavrialena Gontzou on Unsplash

In 2011 I was offered a scholarship to swim at Texas A&M University! Later that year in August I packed up my bags in Wellington, New Zealand and boarded a plane to Texas. At the time I was a young 18-year-old girl who had no idea what my life ahead looked like. All I knew was that I was going to be able to study full-time, continue my swimming career (something not…

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Ellen Quirke

Living a sustainable life and writing about my experience. Based in Auckland, New Zealand. Get my free sustainability eGuide https://bit.ly/38wy3tF