Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask)

by Brynn Tannehill

The closet is a very dark place. The longer LGBT people live that lie, the harder it becomes to extricate ourselves from it.

“I cannot stand in a church and worship on Sunday alongside those who on the very next Monday co-sign every kind of legislation that devalues the lives of black people, women, and gay people,” writes Cooper. “I am a firm believer that our theology implicates our politics. If your politics are rooted in the contemporary anti-black, misogynist, homophobic conservatism, then we are not serving the same God. Period.”