Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.

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.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

Depression means that you have no point of view.