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When I first heard that the photoshoot was in town, it was 30 minutes before the shoot was about to end. I took my hungover, made up face from the night before over to the W because I just had to do it. I cared less how I looked or felt at that moment, but rather the statement I would make . Whenever I saw a NOH 8 photo I got these amazing vibes and I just felt LOVE . Love shouldn't

I posed for NOH8 because too many have suffered the emotional consequences of intolerance. We all deserve to be loved and to love freely. The more people who are made aware of the intolerance, the more chance we have as a community to move forward freely in love and life. NOH8 is making this possible.

Here's why we posed with our baby daughter : 1) We want her to know that we will always love her for exactly who she is. If she ever has questions about her identity, we want her to feel free to discuss it with us without hesitation or fear. 2) We want to raise her to celebrate human diversity in all its forms and love everyone as an equal. 3) We want to raise her in a world

My name is Brian Anderson. I grew up in a small Illinois farm town. I grew up in that town as someone known to be gay, and from that I was well known as someone to "hate." So for me, this NOH 8 picture I did was my way to stand up to that hate. The day of the photo shoot, I was a small part of such a big thing that's history in-the-making. My picture was taken with my whole heart

I share the typical reasons of participating with everyone else, but I also have personal reasons. Often left out of the discussion of marriage equality is the marriage rights of trans people. It seems that the hate against us is so strong that certain people seek to deny us the right to marry anyone ! If I seek to marry a man, the bigots will tell me that I'm not really