This is an open letter to my great-grandparents, who immigrated from Scotland and landed in Montreal 100 years ago, while the rest of their siblings immigrated to America: Thank you, thank you, thank you for making me a Canadian. I and all your descendants bless your names.

As an LGBTQ+ person, I don’t agree with the Evangelical Christian lifestyle. However, I don’t yell at evangelicals or throw my rainbow flag at them, even when they scream at us at our gatherings, try to deny us equality under the law, shoot up our bars, barricade our health clinics, straight-up murder us in the street,…

I don’t agree with the LGBT lifestyle. However...

Precisely. He’s brave af to own up to his disgusting impulse. Folks all up and through here acting like nobody else has had thoughts like this. Please. 

He’s especially good at the following commands:

On one hand: awesome. On the other hand: I’m a little too exhausted from the work of my own life to take on fixing people who call me a cunt, whether they’re in pain or not. Lots of people in pain don’t call me a cunt. I think I’ll work on helping them.

Because, wait for it, there are multiple countries in the world and they don’t all have the same requirements.