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.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

It's also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It's a totally different thing when you know your husband... not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people's minds, what changes people's minds.

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