I did not know that Virginia Mollenkott would die several months later. But I imagine that she suspected it. And that’s why she told me. I was interviewing Mollenkott for a new history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United States that I was writing, a history of how antigay stances came to dominate and define the evangelical movement. Back in the 1970s, Mollenkott had been part of a network of evangelical gay activists who knew that evangelical homophobia had not always been so dominant. This network advocated for the full acceptance of gay and lesbian people within evangelicalism, and…