"I've been through exorcisms. I've been through therapy. My question going in was, 'Can you change my thinking?' They said yes. After two years I said, 'Nothing's different. How long does this take?' My therapist said, 'Well, you'll just have to learn to live with it.' That's not what I wanted to hear.... I've been in the Christian music industry all my life.... But when I came out, that brought me to a dead end of being marketable in that world. The thing I'd hear was, 'Too bad all that talent's gone to waste.' "

Rich Cook, leader of Men Alive, a gay chorus of conservative Orange County, California, describing his journey on how he turned a negative coming out experience with his Christian friends and family into a full-sized gay men's chorus. (Orange County Register)