What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

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

I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom of religion, of association, of disassociation, and believe they should be treated with respect. I wouldn't dream of drumming them out of the military, firing them for their faith, tearing up their relationships, or taking their children away from them. The favor, alas, is not returned.

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.