When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

I didn't love her when I married her but I did love her after our first year. The Briggs Initiative was soundly defeated in 1978 due in large part to grass-roots organizing which Perry participated in. Founding the Metropolitan Community Church
In 1968 after a suicide attempt following a failed love affair and witnessing a close friend being arrested by the police at the Black Cat Tavern a Los Angeles gay bar Perry felt called to return to his faith and to offer a place for gay people to worship God freely.

Troy Deroy Perry Jr (born July 27 1940) founded the Metropolitan Community Church a Christian denomination with a special affirming ministry with the lesbian gay bisexual and transgender communities in Los Angeles on October 6 1968.