Alternate cover for 'Seattle's Best Christians' issue, which we couldn't get to scan hi-res enough. Yes, this is Riz Rollins's official prom photo. You're welcome.
Alternate cover for Seattles Best Christians issue, which we couldnt get to scan hi-res enough. Yes, this is Riz Rollinss official prom photo. Youre welcome.
  • Alternate cover for ‘Seattle’s Best Christians’ issue, which we couldn’t get to scan hi-res enough. Yes, this is Riz Rollins’s prom photo. You’re welcome. (Also, the existing cover is beautiful.)

That’s the closing summation of DJ Riz Rollins‘s testimony in this week’s Seattle’s Best Christians feature. The gorgeous Rollins quote that precedes it:

“Love, grace, and mercy. Those are really big words for me. I have to apply my words to my relationship to other people. I also have to apply these words to myself. That’s how I get to be gay.”

Read the whole thing here.

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