I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.