I am very proud to support this magazine and curation effort. I think the efforts to "cure" homosexuality, often under the aegis of a church, are tremendously harmful. Families, churches and communities can bring a tremendous amount of pressure and guilt to bear on lgbtq+ individuals, and I think it is important that families, churches and communities are active opponents to such practices and allies/advocates for the lgbtq+ community. Particularly in the Christian faith in the US, I hope to see more church and community leaders taking an active stand in support of lgbtq+ members of the community. What would Jesus do? Well it is pretty clear. He would have loved his lgbtq+ neighbor just as much as he would have loved his cisgender heterosexual neighbors. Jesus preached a gospel of love and acceptance. It blows my mind how so many "Christian" communities throw the teachings of Christ out the window and turn toward the old testament to justify their behavior. Perhaps they should quit calling themselves "Christ"ian in that case.

Much love - Carl