I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
