“I had to stop romanticizing the man I might have been and be the man that I was, not by neatly fitting other people’s definitions of masculinity or constructs of sexuality, but by being uniquely me – made in the image of God, nurtured by the bosom of nature, and forged in the fire of life.”

“I had to stop romanticizing the man I might have been and be the man that I was, not by neatly fitting other people’s definitions of masculinity or constructs of sexuality, but by being uniquely me – made in the image of God, nurtured by the bosom of nature, and forged in the fire of life.”

— Charles M. Blow