Even the most well-meaning parents rarely raise culturally gay children. That means most of us must find our own way, through trial...

The goal of advocating for greater diversity and inclusion is not the ironing out of our differences, but the delighting in them.

We are all complex mixtures of privilege and adversity. By acknowledging our accidental advantages, we can better empathize with...

Life's richness resides beyond the limits of rightness and wrongness.

In a society steeped in straight supremacy, all of us make homophobic choices from time to time. Even gay people...

I believe that there are no enlightened people, only enlightened actions. In the same way, there are no homophobic people, only...

We all swim in a sea of stigma, bias, and prejudice. There's just no avoiding it. It's our work to acknowledge it, listen, read...

I wasted so many years hating the very parts of me that others were trying to love. If we want to experience the richness of life...

To allow others to define us is to participate in our own oppression.

There is no theory that supersedes lived experience.

You can't heal what you don't love.

Empathy requires that we meet each other where we actually are, instead of flipping on life’s light switches.

Optimism lies at the intersection of honesty and hope.

Gay men have long known what it has meant to die alone. Suffering in silence, cast out of our communities, left to the mercy of...

Create space.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, try asking yourself this: just what in your life truly needs tending today, in order for you to feel...

For nearly forty years, gay men have demonstrated how to survive a plague with grace and dignity...

In a moment that requires physical distancing, what we also need is radical togetherness.

The vast majority of us cannot afford the childlike decadence of living exclusively in the present...

Life can only dance through us when our minds are cracked open in wonder.