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• I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

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  Meaningful, Children, Growing Up

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• The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

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  Gay, People, Stories

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• I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

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  Darkness, Encounters, Prejudice

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• When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.

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  Pain, Gay, Thinking

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

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  Gay, People, These Days

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• I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

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  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

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  Ideas, Evil, Hurtful

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• I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

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  Connections, Deep Connections, Upbringing

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• I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

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  Growing Up, People, Damage

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• I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

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  Hate, Love You, Ideas

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• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

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  Despair, Mysterious, Stills

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• The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

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  Ideas, Soul, Being Depressed

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• I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.

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  Believe, Soul, Levels

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• I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

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  Giving, Trying, Treating Others

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• I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

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  Brain, Looks, Had Enough

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• I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

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  Father, Thinking, Tradition

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• I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

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  Mother, Couple, Loss

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• I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

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  Song, Believe, Voice

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• I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

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  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

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  Believe, Ornaments, Aesthetics

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• We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

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  Kindness, Compassion, People

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• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

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  Growing Up, Gay, Self

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• The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

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  Ideas, Awful, Loses

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• I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

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  Suicide, Attitude, Gay

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• The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.

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  Brother, Gay, Sister In Law

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