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“Iba andando y cantando porque, cuando me siento feliz, siempre tarareo alguna melodía en mi interior, como cualquier hombre feliz que no posee amigos o buenos conocidos, y que, en momentos alegres de su vida, no tiene con quien compartir esa alegría.”

My 4th graders are loving this! Great piece for a read-aloud.

”Perhaps he belonged to a generation that sought out what was a tad difficult to discuss, I to one where what’s obvious enough is left unstated.”

“If I could have done it myself, I would have already done it: pried open my ribs and etched the Word onto my heart’s beating chambers. But it seemed my ex-gay counselors were the only ones with enough skill and experience to wield the scalpel.”

“Nothing stealthy or dissimulated about voicing one’s admiration for another man.”

“He extended his arm in slow, deliberate, confident motions, putting his whole heart in each sweep no differently and no less devotedly than if he were sliding a long, slow bow across violin strings or washing the back of a wounded soldier lying on a gurney, washing and scrubbing, gently and softly.”

"He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

"And now his smile is a little sad.
And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them."