In her journal, she kept asking, “Can I please just find someone who’s like me - who wants to be religious and is able to embrace their queer identity?” “That was very frustrating, because I also knew that a lot of other religious people believed that,' said Hodak, now a 19-year-old psychology major at Florida International University. It was an upsetting and confusing time, because the same religious mentors who helped her strengthen her beliefs kept saying her sexuality would conflict with her faith. Sabrina Hodak grew up in a Modern Jewish Orthodox family but only truly embraced Judaism at age 16, around the same time she understood she was bisexual.
