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"Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."

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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."

"When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name."

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"Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation."

"I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd."

"Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature."

"Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends."

"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."

"I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring."

"By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way."
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