Restriction Generates Yearning. You Want

I Began To See Myself As Someone Who Can Help Others Understand Diversity Rather Than Feeling Like A Social Outcast. Ellen Taught Me To Not Care About Other People's Opinions. She Taught Me To Be Truthful. She Taught Me To Be Free. I Began To Live My Life In Love And Complete Acceptance. For The First Time I Had Truly Accepted Myself.

I Finally Understood That By Being On A Perpetual Diet, I Had Practiced A "disordered" Form Of Eating My Whole Life. I Restricted When I Was Hungry And In Need Of Nutrition And Binged When I Was So Grotesquely Full I Couldn't Be Comfortable In Any Position By Lying Down. Diets That Tell People What To Eat Or When To Eat Are The Practices Inbetween. And Dieting, I Discovered, Was Another Form Of Disordered Eating, Just As Anorexia And Bulimia Similarly Disrupt The Natural Order Of Eating.

When I Watched Ellen Come Out In '97, My Jaw Was On The Floor. I Thought, There Are Some People Who Break The Doors Down, Hold Them Open, And Some People Who Walk Right Through.

I'm Not Quite As Limber, But For My Peers And My Age Group, I'm Still Top Notch!

You Live With The Fear People Might Find Out. Then You Actually Have The Courage To Tell People And They Go, I Don't Think You Are Gay. It's Enough To Drive You Crazy.