Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between two men than between a man and a woman; and again, the lack of children gives gay couples greater freedom. Their failures entail fewer consequences for others. But something of the gay's relationship's necessary honesty, its flexibility, and its equality could undoubtedly help strengthen and inform many heterosexual bonds.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

[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.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.