unlearn shame. all forms of shame: unemployment, illness, vulnerability, longing, desire, errors, failures. you do not need to feel ashamed of what you are experiencing or living. freedom and shame cannot coexist.
Homophobia scares me, but it makes me even more furious. You can be an amazing child, sibling and friend, only for none of it to matter the second they find out you're gay.
Because yes I’m the gay brother, the gay cousin, the gay uncle. I’m the gay of the family.