Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.

There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.