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

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

Together, in that room, our childhood notions of love melted away. We discovered love was not a fairytale. Sometimes there were no happy endings, and when there were, you needed to work like hell to...

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

To all my friends who constantly talk disparagingly about the supposed ‘homosexual lifestyle’ and stereotype gay people and the community, I’d like to get this straight. There are essentially two worlds – the ‘gay scene’...

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as...

Psychological and emotional wellness is an ongoing process for everyone.

Long after you go downand the vessel rusts apartyour bones sunkenburied in the ocean floorI wonder if you miss people?

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.

Sorry, kid. You don’t get to exist in story; you’re too different.” You don’t want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they...

No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He’s gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!

If sex is not just about reproduction, it is not just about genes, XY chromosomes, and hormones either. Sex is introduced to explain skeletal structure, mental aptitude, posture, emotional disposition, aesthetic preference, body fat, sexual...

Abuse doesn’t define you.

The Santa Ana Windgusts downdesert canyons.Hot. Dry. Electric.Some say it ignites tempers.I say it ignited us.

I need a drink.

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth — but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so...

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

I think you’ve got to get out whatever’s hurting you through your art, so it doesn’t twist you up inside.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived...

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...