If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.