The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
Being gay is immutable.
I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.