[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

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.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

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

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?