Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.
There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.
Merely having inclinations does not disqualify one for any aspect of Church participation or membership, except possibly marriage. But even that, in the fullness of life as we understand it through the doctrines of the restored gospel, eventually can become possible.
In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.
Why somebody has a same-gender attraction. . . who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.
What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do. '
Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person. . . they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.
Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.