“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.”
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“All you needed to turn you gay are tigers and meth.”
― Not the Default: Essays on Sexuality
― 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.”
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“The more straight people know about us, the more they have to hate.”
― Man Enough To Be A Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County
― Man Enough To Be A Woman: The Autobiography of Jayne County
“Being gay or straight,” says Elizabeth, “is about who you want to go to
bed with. Being trans—or cis—is about who you want to go to bed as.”
― Mad Honey
bed with. Being trans—or cis—is about who you want to go to bed as.”
― Mad Honey
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