A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the Particular')" ... In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal, she overturns the concepts to which we are accu...
We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of being wrong. And so, in a counter-intuitive way, this focus on being right seems to b...
I love you, but I hate your overeating" doesn’t help a marriage. It's not helpful because hatred is a powerful emotion (a posture, really) that is not easy to wield or maintain carefully. Hatred is more a bludgeon than a scalpel. Our ability to dis...
As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of...
People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
We're gay, we're in love, and we're married. It's not wrong. We're not wrong!" - Avery Adams
At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.
Paul needed to come out, not as gay or straight, but as human.
...our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.
Damien has died and gone straight to gay boy heaven,' Shaunee said...
A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.
Now that he knew there was the possibility of gay porn in his future he was a happy hamster.
No matter what, if my son was gay, I'd treat him like a king.
The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.
In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
