Status Updates From Bible Belt Queers

“Love is not a sin. And God knows my love for her was more holy than your prayers have ever been.”

“I have relatives long gone, women from the Old South who never married - who lived in their aprons and their closets and I think of that Mississippi … and I talk and I talk and I open my mouth because they couldn’t, because they can’t anymore.”

“I wish I hope I wait for a better day, a gayer day. Where we don’t turn our back on our brothers and sisters in the South.”

“Small town gay bars where drag queens taught me how to fight for my identity with my life because one day they might be the same fight”