Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

Being gay is immutable.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.