“Anything I could do to camouflage it, I did. I buried it. I tried playing baseball, but it was not my thing. I tried having girlfriends, but I felt like I had failed at being straight.”

“We like to point fingers and put blame. I was going through some religious doubts and I was blaming God for my suffering and for me being gay. I just felt like it was so wrong, but I had no control. Why would He do this to me? It wasn’t until after that conversation did I realize [that being gay] wasn’t wrong. ”

“God is all love, so I just want to show love in the world. Showing love is showing God.”