Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.

Love should never mean having to live in fear.

The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?

What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.