Q & A With Your Token Gay: Part I

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grandma j asks:

Jason, the only question I have is: Is that you on the toilet? You're using wayyyy too much toilet paper! :))

Yes, this is actually me on the toilet. I was eighteen years old on a choir tour with my school and we were staying at a hotel on Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco. I don't know which is worse, saying that this photo was staged or if someone actually walked in on me like this and took a pic. Okay, it was staged. This is as wild as I EVER got in high school. By the way, this was the same day that I had seen the ocean for the very first time. And yes, I think at times I do use wayyyyy too much toilet paper.

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hula hank asks:

Jason, my question to you is, who is your favourite character on Golden Girls?

I'm insulted, hula hank, that you would be so stereotypical as to assume that just because I'm gay I'm a huge fan of the Golden Girls. The very idea! (Blanche Devereaux is my favorite, you know, because she has so much fun. But then again, I like Rose Nylund a lot because the ditzy things she says just roll me. Although, Sophia Petrillo, the oldest of the Girls, cracks me up with her sharp, sarcastic Sicilian whit. Wait, my most favorite is undeniably, without a doubt, Dorothy Zbornak because she spends her existence caught in the middle, trying to make sanity with the crazies she lives with. Kinda like me.)
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heart shaped hedges asks:

As a *new* reader, I have lots of questions...I think the one I most want to ask....Do you attend church? I was very touched by your "story", and my heart hurt knowing that it was hard to reconcile who you are with the church in which you grew up. I wonder if you have been able to find a church where you can feel connected to God. (not that you need an institution to be close to God....but...anyways....)

I do not attend church other than the very occasional mass with my mother-in-law. Until I came to terms with my sexuality and my life within that context, I knew that my Mormon faith would .excommunicate me. Which they did, and you can read all about it here. Since then I've been unable to reconcile the idea of God and church and organized religion. I particularly have a very difficult time with religions that either a) have horrific, violent histories or b) say they are acting in the name of God but do things that are very un god-like. I can't get past the hypocricy and the use of guilt, fear, and shame to try to get people to act in a certain way.

I suppose I'm agnostic, but I'm kind of ambivalent about that.
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