Feb 3, 2017
"Closets are dark, and when the gay child—or in my case, young professional—decides to stuff his soul in there, it has a warping effect.
It forces you deeper inside yourself. You become a mapless soul in a haunted maze, and you lose your bearings on who you really are. You begin to furiously reshuffle your inner...
Feb 3, 2017
"Deep inside every workaholic man is a little boy who never felt big enough, strong enough, worthy enough. And that little boy can be very loud. He reminds the man of his lacking, of his lessness. Work is very noisy in the soul, so the workaholic uses that noise to drown out the little boy. Obsessive work can't deliver...
Feb 3, 2017
"A lot of my friends got married in their mid-20s.
And I began to notice a trend: When friends would get married, you wouldn't hear from them much anymore.
This was new to me, because, before that, friends had always been portable. I could collect friends in elementary school and take them with me to middle school. I...
Feb 3, 2017
"Yet while I was praying against it, I was simultaneously denying that same-sex attraction was a thing in my life.
Back then, I denied that same-sex attraction was an intrinsic part of me.
If anything, it was a clinger, a hanger-on, an invader, a tumor, a trespasser, a most unwelcome guest.
It's like the 1986 movie...