By Caroline Mcguire for MailOnline Coming out can be incredibly hard for gay people to do - the fear of how family and friends will react often delays announcement for years, or even decades. But for Vicky Beeching, the decision to tell the world she was a lesbian wasn't just about telling her nearest and dearest, it was was also going to risk shattering her income and having her deported from the country she lived in. For over a decade, the 35-year-old's music has been played across America's bible belt as a soundtrack to modern Christianity. From the age of fourteen, the Brit had been travelling to perform the religious music she wrote at concerts and churches from her family home in Kent.
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Vicky Beeching, 35, is one of most successful singers in US Christian rock
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The British star tried to 'cure' herself of being gay as a child via exorcism
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Finally came out this year and has been astonished by support received
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She is hoping to use her story to help the church to accept gay marriage
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