I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.