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.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

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.