I feel like I needed time to process Surrender Your Sons by @TheAdamSass and now that I have this book was something else. It really captured queer pain, the messaging around conversion therapy, but most importantly how queer people come together and move forward.

This was not an easy read but it was powerful. It was about finding hope in the darkest of places.

The epilogue particularly was my favorite because it showed that things can get better. Pain won't disappear overnight but there are people who will love you and fight for you.

It also makes it clear that your identity does not make you at fault for the abuse and intolerance caused by others-even if some days it doesn't always feel that way.

You are valid and deserve to be loved.

And yes, don't mind that my queer self is lightly crying while writing this thread.

And that this line is kind of everything:

"It was so kind of you to visit me in my loneliness."