Jonathan T. Bailey: 'You are worthy. To love the world around you necessitate love, acceptance, and forgiveness for yourself. There is no need for shame in acts of being, whether LGBTQ+ or otherwise guilted for natural, human expressions.'
It may seem unusual in that I’m not behind a podium. Rather, I am next to a stream, outstretched, beneath an overhang of granite. I fell asleep and woke to a hummingbird, a mother, bathing herself in a seep filled with yellow monkeyflowers. She flew back to her young, in view, and settled her belly on a delicate nest of spiderweb and moss. This, to me, is sacred.
Sometimes, though, my mind enters a dark, entangled bramble. Usually, it begins with an intimate touch from another man.the voice says, remembering the words of Spencer Kimball. My body stiffens. Consent often comes to mind, not because I didn’t give it to my partner, but because I did not give it to the faith that entered my bedroom when I was a child and invaded my thoughts.
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