If you think your religion requires discrimination, you’re probably misreading your faith.

There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

«This summer’s been a dream,» Ethan murmured.«I know.»«I just hate that we’ve only got one week before it ends.»«You’ve got it all wrong, Eth,» Alek said, gently running his hand through Ethan’s surfer hair. «This...

See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes,experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an orderto art. An explanation. Humans are odd creatures in that way. Alwayssearching for a...

People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.

Substitute the word gay for straight and she’s the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.

I know you’re upset, I know you’re scared, but don’t walk away.

Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil...

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

Trevor cupped his hands around it, felt Zach’s heartbeat throbbing between his palms. The skin of the shaft was textured, slightly rippled beneath the surface. The head was as smooth as satin, as rose petals....

Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.””I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,” said Simon.

You don’t deserve the anger you’re turning on yourself. Your abuser’s the one who does.

Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages...

It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.

I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.

Are you?” I said. “Gay, I mean?” -I hoped he wasn’t offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know.”No,” he said. “I thought I was for about a...

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation’s goal should be to understand the other...

I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he’d step into my room after...

Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of “the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and culturally.” Although _globalization from below_ is to counter _globalization from...

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It’s all a matter of perspective.

If you don’t know for sure, then what’s the big thing about trying stuff out?” Jamie said, looking not at me but looking out at that statue, just like Hennitz.I still didn’t have any of...

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage...

Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document,...

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

From the standpoint of integrity, I think we all need to own up to our dirty little secrets. I believe that when we are open about our own strange desires or unusual lives, it paves...

One can learn from what is not said.

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can’t it just be what it is?

You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.

Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic...

The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

Don’t try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas – none of them bother me. I don’t care what banner they raise. But what I can’t stand are hollow people. When I’m with them I...

So, let me get this straight– You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a ‘sin’? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure,...

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

It is strange… the reasons one feels he doesn’t deserve things.

Hai finito di fare lo stronzo con me adesso?- Quasi. Tutto ciò che ho da dire è che non puoi fare il paladino degli oppressi di professione. Si, le cose sono migliorate per i neri...

Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese....

I didn’t set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories...

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it’s destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family...

Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately...

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

Just because I am queer doesn’t mean I am queer for you