On March 14th, 2025, I had the honor of giving a homily at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City for The NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Spring concert “Hear My Song.”
The Divine Truth
We all have that photo of us as little kids, our tiny hands at our waist, limp-wristed, weight off to one foot, lookin’ like a little Gay statue. Maybe wearing our mother’s clothes.
Most of us grow up with that unmistakable softness and the world tries to whittle it down. It corrects our posture, changes our voice or just tries to beat it out of us. This is done by people who hate us, and worst of all, people who love us.
So we spend our lives trying to get back to that softness, or we run away from it as fast and as far as we can, sometimes killing ourselves in the process. We either face that truth or we don’t.
That truth can be ugly, and tragic and sexy, but above all, that truth is divine.
And that relationship with our truth is what makes all Queer people so powerful and threatening. We live in an era of lies and propaganda that spread so fast. So embracing our truth gains a different meaning and momentum.
The Queer experience is all about alchemy, turning the most painful things into the most beautiful. Prisons into poems, funerals into parades, plagues into revolutions.
In the language of our Queerness, “truth” transforms into another word for love. May we all learn to love our softness.
Queer poems and prayers in POST
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