MORNING LAZZINESS
“Every LGBTQ+ refugee has a unique situation—but the fear and pain they endured before coming to Canada is universal.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“I am proud, that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“I’m a young, bisexual woman, and I’ve spent a large part of my life trying to validate myself—to my friends, to my family, to myself—trying to prove that who I love and how I feel is not a phase.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I’ve ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn’t even realized I was carrying.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“I believe that no one should ever have to choose between a career we love and living our lives with authenticity and integrity.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter—you just have to be a human.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”
MORNING LAZZINESS
“The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.”
MORNING LAZZINESS