There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.