“Growing up, I knew that I felt different, but when you grow up Catholic, you don’t really know gay is an option,” she says. In fact, it took the freedom of college for Jackie to even realize who her “own person” was. “It was the first time in my life where I could just go somewhere and be my own person.” “I remember walking out of the sorority house to go to Walmart or something, and I stopped at the door and thought to myself, ‘Should I tell someone I’m leaving?'” she says. She chose a triple major of which they approved. After graduating, Jackie attended nearby University of Idaho, where she rushed a sorority at her parents’ prompting.
