Overwhelmed with joy with the release of the “Somebody You Knew” this weekend! We have made it up to
#21
on iTunes in the U.S. with the album so far! No record label. Just us. It feels so special.
This guy’s being a piece of shit, and needs to make it right. Trying to seem nice and doing disgusting shit behind the scenes in the background is a card played all too often. She is the artist of the decade, show some damn respect.
#IStandWithTaylor
Regardless of what has been said the truth is you don’t make big bets unless you are a believer and always have been. Brilliant album with
#Lover
. Congrats
@taylorswift13
. Supporting was always the healthier option 😊
#brilliantalbum
#brilliantcampaign
congrats
After growing up being taught that God would think I was an abomination if I was gay, and spending so much of my life believing it.. it is mind-blowing to finally experience this kind of love, and to experience the joy that comes without guilt or shame. What a world. 🥰😊
@HillaryClinton
If Trump can still keep campaigning with rallies after he won, Hillary can keep talking keep talking as the winner of the popular vote.
@realDonaldTrump
I love that it's always going to eat you alive, that you lost the popular vote. You're a sore winner, and a sore (popular vote) loser.
I came out to myself four years ago. I never knew it was possible to feel the freedom, joy and peace that I’ve found since then. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing many people come out since then and I’ve only seen it produce freedom, joy & peace. Happy
#ComingOutDay
, you are loved.
Could use some positive thoughts or something. Tried reaching out to my parents in love, desperately wanting to show them how much I wish we could be close, my dad told me there are no LGBTQ people & asked me to never text him or my mom again. Of course there’s more to it, but 💔
My dad texted me tonight to let me know I’m a disgraceful son because I talked about my pain with him on social media. He hasn’t wanted anything to do with me for years because I’m gay, refuses to meet my bf or be in me and my kids life, but he thinks I owe him an apology.. damn.
Saw a closeted Christian rockstar friend of mine while I was in Nashville last week, and my heart is just broken for them. I love them so much. And I’m also pissed off. There is a dark cloud over the Christian music industry, and several things anger me about all of this...
My parents were in a car accident two Saturdays ago. My father passed away, and my mom is on the road to a slow recovery. I did not have a good relationship with my dad, and it had been pretty much non-existent, since I came out of the closet as a gay man…
Wow, they seem really happy for us. 🥶
Of course they can’t be happy for us finally getting to fall in love after they, and the whole system, have used their energy to oppress us, damage us, and destroy our lives.
We didn’t used to know we could dream like this. To fully love ourselves. To know what it is to fall in love, and know we are worthy of that love. To be known and loved in the most intimate ways. We are engaged! And we can’t wait to celebrate with you all! 💍💘💒🤵♂️🤵♂️
@realDonaldTrump
Is this real life? We're really going to let you be President? Man. Did you see President Obama's farewell last night? Get some class.
I performed at this Christian college on tour with my old band several years back.
@BrandanJR
is alumni. Like many evangelical schools, they believe there is something broken with queer people. Which made this pic feel quite redeeming. 😅🏳️🌈
#FaithfullyLGBT
#Exvangelical
#qconf19
God did not make you gay and then expect you to be lonely and miserable for the rest of your life as a way to honor God. God is not angry at the idea of you genuinely falling in love with someone of the same sex. You are not “convicted”, you have been brainwashed.
When
@taylorswift13
is playing what could easily be the encore of the show with “Delicate” and “Shake It Off”, but you realize you’re only halfway through
#RepTourNetfilx
because she has THAT. MANY. HITS. Plus these girlz. Geez. Pop perfection. 😅🥰
But I like to believe and hope that somehow my dad can now love me the way he didn’t know how, and could not bring himself to, before he left. That he is bathed in a new light of perspective, of acceptance and forgiveness.
@PopCrave
OBVIOUSLY, Call Me By Your Name, then Dune. Yes, we love him in Little Women, Lady Bird, The King, Beautiful Boy, Hot Summer Nights, Miss Stevens… etc. Can’t wait for 2023
I hate the thought of not being with my children one day, to not be able to tell them and show them how much I love them. But if you are a parent, I hope that you won’t wait until it’s too late in this life to tell your child, and show your child, how much you love them. 💔❤️
My debut solo EP/mini-album, "Love Is Love", is now available everywhere! I poured my soul into this, and I hope it moves your heart in some way like it did mine as I was making it.
My “Hey Jesus” Music Video is out now. This is a really personal song about my journey coming out, and all of the emotions I ever felt growing up wanting to be loved. I hope wherever you are today, you know you are loved exactly as you are. 💜
This breaks my heart so much because I felt this way so much at that age. And still so many growing up in evangelical world that do. When you grow up in a system that brainwashes you to think it’s a sin to be gay and that God thinks gay is an abomination, this is what happens.
What is it like to be gay with non-affirming parents? My dad emailed me last night to let me know that I am “devastatingly confused and deceived”. He told me he was the prodigal son’s father waiting for me to come home...
I like to hope he understands now, and that he is proud of me for being myself, sees the healing I have found, as I try to pass it on to others. I choose to forgive him, and to remember the great things about him in my life growing up. I am hurting so badly and I’m so devastated.
Some days I get really angry that I had to be born gay into a family that believed it was an abomination to be gay. Today is one of those days. No one should ever have to feel this way. 💔
Evangelical pastors use false scare tactics about LGBT people as part of their spiritual abuse, like here with a photoshopped picture, to try and dehumanize us. They ignore the countless LGBT people they’ve helped damage, that just wants to be loved. Do we look that scary to you?
I’m not concerned about my kids ever having believed that I have been too liberal about loving people... but I sure as hell still don’t understand why my Christian parents haven’t been able to love people, including my gay ass, enough.
I’m a gay dad. I’m a gay dad who wants justice for every queer kid that has ever felt like it wasn’t okay to be ourselves. I’m a gay dad, and I wouldn’t want to be anyone else.
#LGBTQpride2020
If a church:
makes LGBT people feel broken, ashamed, or not worthy of being loved the same,
causes LGBT people to not be treated the same as straight people,
then it is spiritual abuse.
#EmptyThePews
There is an initiative to ask faith leaders to stop calling it a sin to be LGBTQ+, and to help end this mental health crisis from the harm of this belief. If this is something you care about seeing end, please sign and share this. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
@treypearson
I don't agree with your lifestyle either, but the people who openly bash on you, and belittle you are the ones making this country worse, and throwing metaphorical mud where it should not be thrown.
I don’t even know what to say. What an amazing human being that had so much to give. Rachel was so inspiring to my faith journey, and gave me so much love in my journey coming out. I’m so heartbroken. We love you Rachel Held Evans. Thank you.
I loved my dad, and desperately wanted to have a good relationship with him. I was really close to him growing up and very much wanted to be like him. I know my dad loved me. And I don’t know what happens after this beautiful, magical, painful life we get to experience here..
I don’t know how to express how heartbreaking it is to have all of your worst fears as a child, of not being loved for who you are if you are gay, come true as an adult. 💔😔
2. The Christian music industry thrives in hiding things that are supposedly wrong and make it all taboo. If this person would come out it could change countless lives & possibly force the Christian music industry to change or crumble. Either one would be a positive step forward.
People that marry for love (not arranged) in monogamous, committed, heterosexual relationships is insanely uncommon in the Bible. So why are those the people telling queer people that us getting married is not God’s plan? Asking for a friend.
5. If closeted Christian rockstar came out and everyone behind the scenes that really support it would speak up for the LGBT community, the whole gross world of the Christian music industry could change. But it thrives in fear, so it doesn’t.
6. It’s tough watching people speak of loving like Christ, then seeing the difference of how they treat those still in the closet and what happens when you decide to be healthy. Seeing how it is actually about loving those staying in the tribe & not actually about loving people.
People think their homophobic beliefs are harmless, but it's bullshit. It instigates attacks like this. It leads to suicide. It leads to broken families. If you are ok with thinking it is a sin to be LGBTQ, you are part of the problem.
It was so awesome to get to take my kids with me to my Newark Pride Festival concert last night, with my sister and brother-in-law. I love when they get to see me perform, but it makes me so happy having them get to see such a wonderful environment of love & acceptance. 😁🥰🏳️🌈
It’s crazy how you can feel a deep joy and peace, and life can be wonderful.. and then also have your non-affirming parents, who are incapable of having a close, loving relationship with you, still cause you deep pain and heartache. Super non-binary of happiness.