Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet (born 1978) is an American Catholic lesbian author, blogger, and speaker. and The Washington Blade.

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Tushnet is celibate due to the Catholic Church's teaching on sex outside of heterosexual marriage.

Throughout Tushnet's writing career on Christianity and sexuality, she has often referenced forms of nonsexual intimacy available to gay (and all) Catholics, such as Christian traditions of sworn kinship and covenant friendship. As Scriptural basis, she references the positive Biblical examples of non-marital same-sex love such as Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, or Jesus and John. Her writing often focuses on how Catholic living and lesbianism can coexist and positively affect one another. "I really think the most important thing is, I really like being gay and I really like being Catholic," she said in a 2010 interview with The New York Times. "If nobody ever calls me self-hating again, it will be too soon."

Tushnet came out as a lesbian around age 13 or 14 and her family was supportive.