October 18th is International Pronouns Day Pronouns Education as ResistanceIn November 2016, I was reeling. Donald Trump had just been elected. He had wreaked so much destruction just in the campaign cycle, it was hard to imagine his term in office.

Clearly, this year, Christian Theocracy and White Nationalism movements are emboldened. Hateful legislation is being proposed around the nation. The very act of “Coming Out” and “Being Out” is simultaneously more important, more transgressive and more dangerous than ever before.

I would have loved it as a kid to have a church that encouraged us to listen to our heartfelt yearning of self.

Coming out is vulnerable, intimate, and holy.

I wasn’t really “born this way.” I grew this way.

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

Spirit of Life who dwells before and between and beyond all words… we open ourselves to you.

A new disease, without any cure, is pushing us apart. And, yet, we cannot escape one another. We need one another. Whether I acknowledge it or not, the guarantee of safety does not exist.

The first time I was told that I was too queer to be a congregation's minister, they asked, "What will the neighbors think?,” as if it were the most natural question in the world. It was then that I understood how grace works: it’s costly. It requires us to be uncomfortable, to get outside...

Coming out to my family was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. I realized that my choice was one of life and death, and I needed to let my secret out in order to continue living, and to do so authentically.