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...

We gay men owe so many of our civil rights to women and people of color. And yesterday was no different.

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

Telling someone how they should protest is not that different from telling them why they should be oppressed.

For instance, if you have experienced bigotry at the hands of your family, have you ever looked them in the eyes and lovingly asked them...

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

Equanimity is that state of openness to our heart's desires, without ambition or aversion.

It's no use trying to hide from life: there's no solace in slack senses.

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

It’s so tempting to believe that achievement leads to some sort of freedom, as if our life purpose might save us...

Struggling to find purpose? Go to those parts of life you find irritating, and then hold them alongside your values.

Play is the most advanced practice.

Gay men have long known what it has meant to die alone. Suffering in silence, cast out of our communities, left to the mercy of...

If we're really going to love each other, we're also going to have to love each other's liberation.

Create space.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, try asking yourself this: just what in your life truly needs tending today, in order for you to feel...

For nearly forty years, gay men have demonstrated how to survive a plague with grace and dignity...

Those of us with the luxury and courage to sit with our boredom will soon learn it is one of the pillars of creativity.

One thing is clear, now more than ever: if each of us took just a little less, we would all have a whole lot more.

Let's stay home, so we can share the love, but not the virus.