Gay personal

Nearly all of our best and most important transformations are prompted by personal connections, when what was once theoretical becomes achingly personal and powerful enough to blast through our preconceived, long-held beliefs. It&#;s why, with fewer and fewer gay people staying in the closet, more and more of us are being transformed by those personal connections, to the extent that marriage equality is indeed starting to look inevitable. If your heart is open to them, then it is necessarily start to marriage equality and justice. Such is the innateness of the personal connection.

When I was younger, I was an enthusiastic evangelical Christian (whereas nowadays I&#;m a mild-mannered, unassuming Episcopalian). I believed that homosexuality was wrong for the simple reason that people I loved and trusted told me it was wrong. One of my very best friends also believed what we were told; only for him, it was anything but theoretical.

I met Patrick in high college when we were on the newspaper staff together and we later attended the same university. He was brilliant and funny and always k