Lark

“I felt I’d disappointed my parents. And my church. And my whole race, actually. Isn’t that the prevailing narrative for people in oppressed groups of all kinds: your ancestors suffered so you could achieve, so you better achieve. Rosa Parks didn’t sit on that bus for me to go to New York and turn gay.”
― R Eric Thomas

“All you needed to turn you gay are tigers and meth.”
― Trevor Church, Not the Default: Essays on Sexuality

“Even for those who have chosen to fully accept and affirm their 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings in Christ, until we let go of our narrow and prideful belief in the supremacy of the “normal”, we will not only continue to perpetuate harm to the already vulnerable, but we will deny the Church the opportunity to encounter aspects of the Divine only found in those who “transgress” those false and narrow boundaries.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“The more straight people know about us, the more they have to hate.”
― Jayne County, Man Enough To Be A Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County