This breaks my heart so much because I felt this way so much at that age. And still so many growing up in evangelical world that do. When you grow up in a system that brainwashes you to think it’s a sin to be gay and that God thinks gay is an abomination, this is what happens. And when you grow up being brainwashed to think this, you are taught that the overwhelming sense of guilt you feel is “conviction”. But it’s not. It is the way your developing mind was trained in a spiritually oppressive and abusive system.

Saw a closeted Christian rockstar friend of mine while I was in Nashville last week, and my heart is just broken for them. I love them so much. And I’m also pissed off. There is a dark cloud over the Christian music industry, and several things anger me about all of this... 1. People who work with him and don’t have a relationship with me anymore know he is gay or convince themselves that he struggles with “same sex attraction”, but as long as he don’t say those words and they all pretend he’s not, they work together and they can love him.

Hey all. I have a brand new song that came out today. When I set the date for the distribution of this song, I obviously had no idea what all would be going on right now. But here we are, and it's the beginning of Pride month. (1/5) I view this song as a love letter sent to us from the LGBT community of the '80s. As the COVID-19 pandemic was starting, a gay friend was telling me about living through the AIDS pandemic. (2/5)

What is it like to be gay with non-affirming parents? My dad emailed me last night to let me know that I am “devastatingly confused and deceived”. He told me he was the prodigal son’s father waiting for me to come home... Of course he also hasn’t tried to have any kind of close relationship with me over the last 3 years since I came out. He yelled at me that God didn’t make me this way shortly after I came out to him. He blocked me on Facebook shortly after I came out publicly.