Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

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

The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.