Queer people are here. We've always been here. Living. Laughing. Loving. And we're not going anywhere.

At a young age, many gay people learn to dissociate as a matter of self-preservation -- hiding who we are for the sake of survival...

We each of us get to decide what's beautiful. Not Hollywood. Not fashion magazines. Not the beauty industry. It's up to us.

You are beautiful and desirable just as you are. So start acting like it.

Part of the wondrous mystery of life is that nature remains stubbornly unconcerned with our social constructs...

You are your most precious resource.

You're worth even more than you realize.

Comparing yourself to others is just your brain's way of saying that you've been experiencing too much joy.

Set down your sack of rocks, and let yourself run free.

Self-esteem means you value your skills, abilities, and accomplishments. Self-worth means you know you're much more than all that...

We've got to find a way to fall in love with our bodies... even if just part of them, even if just for today.

We unlock the richness of life as we learn to accept our limits. Releasing all that we are not affords the capacity to embrace all that...

True confidence is sexy because it signals self-worth.

I wasted so much time, not realizing that those things I hated most about myself were what others loved, and even desired...

There's no better expression of gay pride than living your best life.

I wasted so many years hating the very parts of me that others were trying to love. If we want to experience the richness of life...

To allow others to define us is to participate in our own oppression.

There is no theory that supersedes lived experience.

You can't heal what you don't love.

Until we take charge of our lives, we inevitably succumb to its vicissitudes — vacillating between convenience and despair, reacting to...