Someone sent an email to Reverend Joanna Watson [an American missionary] saying that I'm gay, and she sent it to all the anti-gay pastors in Uganda. One of them said, "We're going to take care of this guy." When I was confronted by them I didn't know what they were going to do, but they decided to pray over me. They said they were going to cure me. That didn't work, of course.

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

It's a horrible feeling to be mocked and ridiculed because of your race.

Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".